covenanted, ppl. a.
(ˈkʌvɪnəntɪd)
1. Of a thing: Agreed upon, established, or secured by covenant. covenanted grace, covenanted mercies (Theol.): those that are secured to such as have entered into covenant with God: see covenant 8 b.
| 1651 Hobbes Leviath. iii. xli. 263 The reduction of his elect to their former covenanted obedience. 1670 Milton Hist. Eng. v. (1851) 204 Hostages..to keep thir covnanted peace. 1788 Burns Let. 8 Nov., Nothing inconsistent with the covenanted terms. 1836 J. H. Newman in Lyra Apost. xxxvii, There is not on the earth a soul so base, But may obtain a place In covenanted grace. 1887 S. Cox Expositions Ser. iii. xiii. 169 There is a very general impression..that a radical and vast difference obtains between what are called the covenanted and the uncovenanted mercies of God. 1888 Sir F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. viii. (1890) 199 Their covenanted liberty of self-government. |
2. Of a person: Having entered into a covenant, bound by a covenant.
| 1646 P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. i. 165 To shew mercy to his covenanted people. 1722 Lett. fr. Mist's Jrnl. II. 235 Any profess'd Dissenter, and covenanted Member of a Conventicle. |
3. Hist. Having subscribed the Covenant.
| 1660 in Neal Hist. Purit. IV. 256 He [Charles II] thanked God that he was a Covenanted King. 1693 Apol. Clergy Scot. 90 When the Covenanted Zealots were uppermost. 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. xi. 317 The presbyterians remembered that he [Charles II] was what they called a covenanted King. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 456 The heir of a covenanted house. |
4. Indian Civil Service. Applied to the regular members of the service who used to enter into a formal covenant with the East India Company, and do so now with the Secretary of State for India. Hence the covenanted service.
| 1757 in J. Long Select. Rec. Govt. (Y.), A great scarcity of covenanted servants in Calcutta. 1859 Lang Wand. India 323 The covenanted civil service in India. 1861 Times 23 July, In addition to general covenants for fidelity, obedience to orders, and accounting, the covenanted servants bind themselves to deliver to the Government, on demand, all their books and papers, etc. 1885 Athenæum 11 Apr. 466/1 A covenanted Bengal civilian. |