minded, ppl. a.
(ˈmaɪndɪd)
[f. mind n.1 and v. + -ed.]
† I. [From the vb.]
1. That has been mentioned. Also fore-minded = forementioned. Obs.
| c 1450 Godstow Reg. 147 Þe fore sayde Iohn perschore..scholde warantiȝe to þe fore-myndyd religiouse women,..þ⊇ fore-sayde londes. Ibid. 424 The mynded luke yaf to the mynded William at the entryng vij. mark. 1494 Fabyan Chron. v. xcii. 68 He then buylded the Castell before myndyd. |
II. [From the n.]
2. ‘Having a mind’ to do something; intending, disposed, inclined. Also (rarely) with clause. to be so minded: to be inclined to do what has been mentioned.
| 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 28 Preamble, His Highnes is not mynded..to calle & somone a newe parliament. 1530 Palsgr. 482/1 He was so mynded yesterday, but I have chaunged his purpose nowe. a 1533 Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1559) Oo iij b, For if that the goddes giue me longe life, I am mynded for to amende. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxx. 285, I am not minded to make mention of them. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 249 They are minded to make their Plastering very streight and even. 1775 Sheridan Rivals iv. i, Ne'er a St. [sic] Lucius O'Trigger in the kingdom should make me fight, when I wa'n't so minded. 1816 Scott Antiq. xxxvii, I am no minded to answer ony o' thae questions. 1861 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 73 Mr. C. was minded to go nowhere this summer. 1874 H. H. Gibbs Ombre 29 Discarding at once himself..if he be so minded. 1887 Bowen Virg. æneid iv. 638, I am minded to finish the rite..Sacred to Stygian Jove. |
† 3. Having a certain disposition (favourable or hostile) towards a person or thing. well-minded: well-disposed, friendly. Obs.
| 1513 More in Grafton's Chron. (1568) II. 758 Which [sc. Clarence's death] he [Richard] resisted openly, how be it somewhat (as men demed) more faintly than he that were hartily mynded to his welth. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. I. 148/2 This worthie prince minded well toward the common wealth of his people..did studie [etc.]. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue 3 He..standeth minded agaynst God, and his Church. 1613 Shakes. Hen. VIII, iii. i. 58 We come..to know How you stand minded in the weighty difference Betweene the King and you. 1677 W. Hubbard Narrative 98 A well minded Squaw that was among them. |
4. a. Qualified by advs. (forming combinations which when used attrib. are often hyphened): Having one's habitual thoughts, tastes, or sympathies, inclined in a specified direction.
| 1611 Bible Rom. viii. 6 For to be carnally minded, is death: but to be spiritually minded, is life and peace [Coverdale 1535, has fleshly mynded, goostly mynded]. 1890 Imperially-minded [see imperially adv. 1 b]. 1903 Daily Chron. 9 Jan. 3/3 Rather monotonous even to the most commercially and statistically-minded. |
¶ b. The combinations with adv. have sometimes been used in the senses more properly expressed by parasynthetic formations with the corresponding adj.
| 1712 A. Philips Distrest Mother iv. vii. 43 Pyrrhus is nobly minded; and I fain Would live to thank him for Astyanax. 1828 Sporting Mag. XXII. 229 This man was strongly minded. 1843 Ruskin Mod. Paint. ii. iii. iv. §10 We are in the constant hope of seeing this finely-minded artist shake off his lethargy. |
c. With prefixed n. forming adjs. with the sense ‘interested in or enthusiastic about (the thing specified)’.
| 1928 [see air-minded adj. s.v. air n.1 B. III. 1]. 1932 Daily Express 27 June 11/3 Get travel-minded. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Mar. 205/3 Today we are an inland-dwelling folk, car-minded and mechanical. 1949 Helicopter-minded [see 'copter, copter]. 1956 Planning 23 July 153 PEP is intensely research-minded, and would rather not reach any conclusion than plump for one which cannot survive searching criticism. 1966 C. Mackenzie Paper Lives viii. 109 You must get computer-minded and appreciate that with the development of automation more and more people will be out of employment. 1972 Guardian 18 Aug. 9/2 There is also a bowling green for the sports-minded customer. |
III. 5. Having a mind of a specified character. Chiefly in parasynthetic formations with prefixed adj. (The more common words of this formation, as absent-, bloody-, double-, feeble-, healthy-, high-, noble-, strong-minded, are either given as Main words, or are illustrated under their first element.)
| 1503 [see high-minded a.]. 1528 [see fleshly a.]. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. (Arb.) 33 Being a quiet mynded man and nothing ambitious of glory. 1603 Dekker Batchelor's Banq. vii. heading, The humor of a couetous minded woman. 1872 Lever Ld. Kilgobbin (1875) 172 Supporters, one-minded with them in everything. 1872 Ruskin Eagle's Nest §207 You want to know what sort of a minded and shaped creature it is. |