stinted, ppl. a.
(ˈstɪntɪd)
[f. stint v. + -ed1.]
† 1. Fixed or limited by authority or decree; appointed, set. Obs.
| α a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vii. (1533) 27/2 Where the mayre and comynaltye of the cytye, hadde by the kynges graunte the cytye to ferme..for astynted and ascertayned summe of money. c 1550 Disc. Commw. Eng. (1893) 86 And some other, as gentlemen,..servingmen, and all other livinge by anie rated and stinted rent or stipend, are greate loosers by it [sc. by the alteration of the coinage]. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 28 The Earth left to be so fruitfull as it wont. No season but it exceeded hys stinted temprature. 1611 Coryat Crudities 569 If any should dare..to passe by any of these places, and not pay the stinted summe of Money. 1644 Milton Divorce ii. xiv. 58 Of popular vices those that may bee committed legally, will be more pernicious then those..not under a stinted priviledge to sin orderly and regularly. a 1716 South Serm. (1744) XI. 226 The creatures also have their set and stinted times allotted them, beyond which they can do nothing with success. |
| β 1786 Har'st Rig xxxii, Now when the stented time is past Which they're allowed to break their fast The master comes. |
† b. In the controversies of the 17th c.
freq. applied (echoing Barrowe's use: see
quot. 1586) to set liturgical forms as opposed to ‘free’ prayer.
Obs.| 1586 Barrowe Exam. (1593) B j b, Quest. 2. Wither he thinketh that any Leitourgies, or prescript formes of prayer may be imposed vpon the church: and whither al read and stinted prayers be mere babling in Gods sight? Ans. I finde in the worde of God no..such stinted leitourgies prescribed. 1610 Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists xxxvii. 92 The Priest was appointed of old to vse a set forme vnder the law,..so the people,..Both of them a stinted Psalme for the Sabboth. 1649 Milton Eikon. xvi. 151 He with sighs unutterable by any words, much less by a stinted Liturgie, dwelling in us, makes intercession for us. 1712 Ld. King Primitive Ch. ii. 33 Now these other prayers which made up a great part of Divine Service were not stinted and imposed forms. |
2. Of pasture: Divided into or subject to rights of pasturage; limited to the pasturing of a definite number of cattle.
| 1690 Andros Tracts (1868) I. 97 The Proprietors of the stinted Pasture in Charlestown. 1700 Mem. St. Giles's (Surtees) 96 The many Whins that groweth on Gilligate Moor (or stainted Pasture) do very much damnifie the said moor. 1796 W. H. Marshall W. England II. 136 They were made from the unreclaimed forest state; without the intervention of common fields or stinted pastures. 1854 Spec. Rep. Inclosure Comm. 3 Wanwood stinted pasture. Ibid., Common fields and lands, subject to stinted rights. 1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-Talk Gloss. s.v., A stinted pasture is a pasture limited to carry so many sheep. |
3. Limited in quantity, scanty.
| 1629 Gaule Pract. Theories 169 Mine owne Infinicie [sic] enlarges me to Wrath aboue their stinted Capacities. 1783 Crabbe Village i. 169 Nor mock the misery of a stinted meal—Homely, not wholesome; plain, not plenteous. 1819 Scott Ivanhoe xxvi, I would rather remain in this hall a week without food save the prisoner's stinted loaf. 1863 Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xi. 168 This order..conferred but a narrow and stinted authority. 1864 Tennyson En. Ard. 823 He..help'd At lading and unlading the tall barks That brought the stinted commerce of those days. 1890 Spectator 15 Feb., [He] made an insufficient and stinted apology, when at last it became evident that an apology must be made. |
b. Limited in scope, narrow.
| 1710 Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §81 My own few, stinted, narrow inlets of perception. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 148 [They] would have thrust me wholly from Christ, if I did not consent to receive him within their stinted pale. |
4. Of a plant or animal: Checked in growth, undeveloped; hence, undersized.
Cf. stunted.
| 1759 tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. xii. (1762) 63 When plants grow stinted or sickly in a poor soil. 1763 Mills Pract. Husb. IV. 320 If they make thriving shoots, which have not a ragged or stinted appearance. 1795 Burns Destr. Drumlanrig Woods iv, And scarce a stintit birk is left To shiver in the blast its lane. 1842 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) III. 83 If the situation is much exposed and the soil very poor, the dog-rose is very stinted, and soon ceases to grow. |
| transf. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. i. i, Perhaps it is proof of the stinted condition in which pure Science..languishes among us. 1864–8 Browning J. Lee's Wife viii. iii, Who art thou, with stinted soul And stunted body? |
5. Of a mare or she-ass: In foal.
| 1847 Halliwell, Stinted, in foal, as a mare. West. 1884 W. Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept., A female donkey, stinted. |
Hence
ˈstintedly adv.,
ˈstintedness.
| 1827 Carlyle Misc., Richter (1840) I. 21 It is..a nature in harmony with itself, reconciled to the world and its stintedness and contradiction. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola xxxviii, He was content to lie hard, and live stintedly. 1892 Tennyson Foresters i. i, Now you know why we live so stintedly. |