extended, ppl. a.
(ɛkˈstɛndɪd)
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. Stretched out to the full. Of troops, etc.: Spread out. Of a horse's gait (see quots.); opp. collected. Cf. extend v. 1 b.
| 1552 Huloet, Extended in breadth or length, porrectus. 1625 Markham Souldiers Accid. 14 Marching in an extended Battayle. 1629 Chapman Juvenal 251 The length of his extended limbs. 1778 Earl Pembroke Mil. Equit. 62, I mean by the extended that trot in which the horse trots out without retaining himself, being quite straight. 1841 Lane Arab. Nts. I. 127 We rode along in an extended line. 1864 Col. M{supc}Murdo in Daily Tel. 12 Sept., Extended order simply means skirmishing order. 1938 H. Wynmalen Equitation xi. 52, I start teaching him the extended trot... I begin by varying the pace of his trot a little... I gradually increase the margin between the slowest and the fastest pace. 1952 R. S. Summerhays Elem. Riding xxvi. 148 Extended walk, The horse should cover as much ground as quickly as possible without haste or breaking the regularity of the beats. 1953 G. Brooke Introd. Riding vii. 77 To change from an extended to a collected pace. |
b. Of an arm, spear, etc.: Outstretched. Of a corpse: buried at full length; extended burial, burial in which the corpse is laid at full length.
(Some of the examples are participial rather than adjectival.)
| 1703 Pope Thebais 723 The youth surround her with extended spears. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 398/2 At the chief's head lay the skeleton of a female..extended upon a sheet of pure gold. 1939 V. G. Childe Dawn Europ. Civilization (ed. 3) xvi. 277 The dead were generally buried, contracted or extended, in the settlements. 1952 ― New Light on Most Anc. East (ed. 4) ix. 187 At Harappa these are represented only by extended and flexed burials in Cemetery H. 1960 K. M. Kenyon Archæol. in Holy Land ix. 227 The burials appear to have been extended, lying on their backs. |
† c. Of a passion: Strained, intensified. Of the voice: Strained. Obs.
| 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. ii. 164 Anger..and other extended Self-Passions. 1727 De Foe Syst. Magic i. iv. (1840) 109 And as loud as his utmost extended voice would admit. |
2. a. Drawn out in length in space or time; continued, prolonged.
| c 1450 Burgh Secrees (E.E.T.S.) 2591 Eeyen longe, and extendid visage, Signe be of malice and Envye. 1737 Pope Imit. Hor. iv. i. 42 Thee, drest in Fancy's airy beam, Absent I follow thro' th' extended Dream. 1786 Gilpin Mts. & Lakes II. 8 The vale of Lorton is of the extended kind, running a considerable way between mountains. 1832 Marryat N. Forster iii, The coast was one extended sheepwalk. 1874 Knight Dict. Mech. I. 818/2 Extended-letter (Printing), one having a face broader than usual with a letter of its height. |
† b. extended proportionality: = continued proportional: see continued 4 a. Obs.
| 1570 Billingsley Euclid v. def. xx. 136. |
c. In Insurance (see quots.).
| 1889 C. E. Willard ABC of Life Insurance 42 If the death of the insured occurs during the term of the ‘extended’ insurance, the full amount of the policy is paid. 1909 Webster, Extended insurance, insurance for the full face of a policy on which payments are stopped, granted for an additional period in consideration of retaining part or all of the cash surrender value of the policy. 1913 Jrnl. Chartered Insurance Inst. XVI. 146 He can discontinue premiums as before, and remain assured for the full amount for a limited period. This, you will perceive, is a Paid-up Term policy, and is known as Extended Assurance. 1925 Act 15 & 16 Geo. V c. 69 §4 A further period thereafter ending on such date as the Minister may by order prescribe, not being a date later than the first day of the insurance year commencing next after the end of the aforesaid deficiency period (the aggregate of which two periods is in this section referred to as ‘the extended period’). 1928 Britain's Industrial Future (Lib. Ind. Inq.) iv. xx. 278 Claimants to ‘extended’ benefit. |
d. Bibliography. (See quots.)
| 1952 J. Carter ABC for Book-collectors 78 Extended. When used of individual leaves, this means that the inner margin has been renewed... Occasionally, however, if a book has had to be made-up from a narrower copy, the alien leaves may be extended so that their outer margins range with those of their neighbours. 1960 H. Hayward Antique Coll. 236/2 When one or more of the three outer margins of the leaf of a book has been restored, it is said to be re-margined. If it is the inner margin only, the proper term is extended. |
e. extended-play adj., used of a gramophone record, tape, etc., which contains a longer recording than a record, tape, etc., of a designated ‘normal’ capacity; spec. denoting a record seven inches in diameter, each side playing for about six minutes at 45 revolutions per minute. Abbrev. E.P. (E III.).
| 1954 Gramophone Apr. p. ix (Advt.), Extended play records. Ibid. May 491/2 (heading) Extended play. 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Sept. 553/4 The sentimental Extended Play record. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iv. 83 The thinner backing of extended and double-play tape produce a higher print level. |
3. a. Enlarged in area; wide-spread, extensive.
| 1710 Pope Windsor For. 315 Here..Edward sleeps: Whom not th' extended Albion could contain. 1779 Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 196 The river Curuan, boasting much gold and clear extended plains of grass. |
b. Enlarged in comprehension or scope; having a large scope, extensive.
| 1700 Dryden Fables Ded., That your power of doing generous..actions may be as extended as your will. 1863 Lyell Antiq. Man 6 The introduction of such a fourth name..must render the use of Pliocene in its original extended sense impossible. 1882 Cussans Handbk. Heraldry Introd. 15 Its scope and influence are far more extended. |
c. Sociol. Of a family, etc.: that comprises not only parents and children but also consanguine and conjugal relatives living in proximity.
| a 1942 B. Malinowski Sci. Theory of Culture (1944) 168 The function of the extended family I would define in terms of a more effective exploitation of communal resources. 1951 R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. iv. 142 The help is given as part of the reciprocities of kinship relations—to a second cousin, or uncle, or other member of an extended kin group. 1960 New Left Rev. Jan./Feb. 27/2 Among working-people you had extended families, often overlapping. 1966 D. Jenkins Educated Society iii. 98 The extended, as distinct from the nuclear family. |
4. Having or possessing the quality of extension. See extension 7 b.
| 1666 Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. 3 A Substance extended, divisible and impenetrable. 1710 J. Clarke Rohault's Nat. Phil. i. vii. (1729) 25 A Surveyor of Land conceives at first Sight, that a Field is extended. 1785 Reid Int. Powers iii. v. (1803) I. 483 From the contemplation of finite extended things. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §16 The idea of resistance cannot be separated in thought from the idea of an extended body which offers resistance. |
5. Law. a. Valued; seized upon and held in satisfaction for a debt, etc.; levied upon. b. Of a protest: (see extend v. 9 c.).
| a 1625 Cope in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 124 For the extended lands, where ill officers became indebted to the crown, and made an art to have their lands extended at easy rates. 1768 Blackstone Comm. iii. xxvi. 420 The process is usually called an extent..because the sheriff is to cause the lands, etc. to be appraised to their full extended value. 1889 Case Bp. of Lincoln (1891) 53 The costs of the Promoters occasioned by..the said Extended Protest. |
Hence exˈtendedly adv., in an extended manner; at length, fully; to a great extent, continuously, extensively; so as to possess extension. exˈtendedness, the quality or condition of being extended.
| 1660 Earl of Bristol Sp. in Parl. Hist. (1763) XXII. 388 To speak unto your Lordships somewhat more extendedly than what is my Use. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. 779 Reason dictates, that Here and There, is so to be understood of the Deity, not as if it were Extendedly Here and There. 1791 Gilbert's Law Evid. I. 147 We must consider the Nature of Bills of Exchange a little more extendedly from their original. 1806 Herschel in Phil. Trans. XCVI. 460 The polar regions are more extendedly flat than..they would have been if [etc.]. 1873 Masson Drumm. of Hawth. xxi. 477 ‘The Midden-Fecht’, or, more extendedly, ‘The Midden-Fecht between Vitarva and Neberna’. 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 173 Neither is extendednes the measure of God's immensity. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Fever, A Redness in the Face..Strength, Quickness and Extendedness of the Pulse. |