▪ I. ˈtended, ppl. a.1
[f. tend v.1 + -ed1.]
Attended to, looked after, cared for.
| 1667 Milton P.L. v. 22 Mark how spring Our tended Plants. 1866 Neale Sequences & Hymns 82 Year by year, the steeple-music O'er the tended graves shall pour. |
▪ II. † ˈtended, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. tend v.2 7 + ed1.]
Stretched; taut, tense.
| 1799 Young in Phil. Trans. XC. 134 It may be proved, that every impulse is communicated along a tended chord with an uniform velocity. 1834 M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xvii. (1849) 164 A body vibrating near insulated tended strings. |