ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. pple. Jointed; connected by a joint.
1616. [See ARTICULATE v. 1.]
1666. J. Smith, Old Age, 59 (T.). The scapula … is articulated to the humerus.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., viii. (1827), 458. A ridged bone, articulated at both ends to rigid bases.
1857. Henfrey, Elem. Bot., § 197. The base of the filament … is usually articulated to the receptacle.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 1. An ossicle articulated to its apex.
2. Jointed, having segments united by joints; sensibly jointed; marked with apparent joints.
1644. Bulwer, Chirol., 157. The articulated Fingers.
1706. Art of Paint. (1744), 201. The hands and feet rather plump than sensibly articulated.
1747. Gould, Eng. Ants, 5. The Antennæ of Ants are what Virtuosi call articulated.
1815. Bakewell, Introd. Geol., 132. The columns at Fairhead are not articulated like those at the Giant’s Causeway.
1851. Gentl. Mag., CXXII. I. 128. We next arrive at articulated figures. The Statue of Jupiter Ammon nodded.
3. spec. in Zool. Formed like the ARTICULATA.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., I. 750/1. The body of these animals [the Crustacea] is articulated.
1860. Samuelson, Honey Bee, ii. 11. An insect is an articulated animal; that is, an animal … composed of a number of articulations or rings.
4. Made into articulate sound; = ARTICULATE 6, 7.
a. 1704. Locke, Cond. Underst. (1741), 72 (J.). They who would … not deceive and swell themselves with a little articulated Air.
a. 1711. Ken, Psyche, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 172. To speak … My sorrow in articulated Tear.
1824. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 327. The same words may be repeated; but in each second of time the articulated air hath passed away.
1853. Robertson, Serm., Ser. IV. iii. (1876), 25. Speak, if your heart prompts, in articulated words.
1867. O. W. Holmes, Guard. Angel, xii. 205. Which had hardly risen into the region of inwardly articulated thought.
5. Made distinct.
1855. Brimley, Ess., 23. Its luxuriant pictorial richness … more articulated by fine drawing.
6. Formulated, set forth in, or reduced to articles.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M., II. 534. Every point and circumstance articulated against them.
1591. Horsey, Trav. (1857), 208. To declare and deliver [them] to his nunciat … articulated in the cittie of Musko.
1848. Hampden, Bampton Lect., 100. A minutely articulated system of Theology.
1880. E. White, Cert. Relig., 23. They know nothing of an articulated creed which may be blindly assented to by young and old.
