projected, ppl. a.
(prəʊˈdʒɛktɪd)
[-ed1.]
1. Thrown or thrust forward; placed so as to protrude; cast upon a surface: see the verb.
| 1624 Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 236 That all the projected or jutting Parts (as they are termed) be very moderate. 1692 Bentley Boyle Lect. 246 A projected transverse impulse, in tangents to their several orbs. 1695 Blackmore Pr. Arth. iv. 480 They..with projected Fires our Men assail. 1778 Lowth Transl. Isaiah Notes (ed. 12) 290 Then to the rocks' projected shade retire. 1831 Brewster Nat. Magic iv. (1833) 95 The projected image of this figure..may then be accurately copied. |
| fig. 1904 Daily Chron. 16 Feb. 3/1 The command is still to ‘know thyself’, for only by means of an analysed and projected self can we know the minds of others. |
2. Put forth as a project; planned, devised.
| 1706 Phillips, Projected, designed, contrived. 1828 D'Israeli Chas. I, I. vi. 162 The difficulties of a projected invasion. 1863 H. Cox Instit. iii. v. 655 Projected treaties of commerce. 1894 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (1900) 73 The projected railroad..was a fact to be thought over. |
Hence
proˈjectedly adv.: in
quots. in sense of
project ppl. a. 4, completely, abjectly.
| 1660 tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. i. i. 2 There is no Nation so projectedly Savage, as to be aliens to the belief of existence of some Deity. 1665 J. Spencer Vulg. Proph. 24 For they..believe no man to be so projectedly Atheistical, as to intitle God to the Visions of his own brain. |