granted, ppl. a.
(ˈgrɑːntɪd, -æ-)
[f. grant v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.
1. Bestowed, allotted.
| 1700 Dryden Ovid's Met. viii. Baucis & Philem. 196 Tablets hung for gifts of granted vows. a 1770 Jortin Serm. (1771) IV. i. 2 He daily returned thanks for the granted favor. 1829 H. Murray N. Amer. II. iii. v. 490 In the granted and located districts called the Concessions, two sevenths are retained. 1860 Ellicott Life Our Lord ii. 67 The granted issue of all his longings and all his prayers. 1876 Ruskin Fors Clav. VI. lxi. 22 It shall be in a constantly progressive relation to the granted years of my life. |
2. Admitted, acknowledged.
| 1640 Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. (Ward) 36/2 We have reason to take it for a granted truth. 1677 Dryden State Innoc. Apol. Wks. 1883 V. 124 If they will take it as a granted principle, it will be easy to put an end to this dispute. 1897 W. C. Hazlitt Ourselves 50 A gratuitous superstructure on granted or presumed premises. |
b. to take for granted: to regard as not requiring proof, or as likely to be admitted by every one. † to give for granted: see give v. 31 b.
| 1615 J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 265 He takes it for granted, that hee can grace or disgrace any man at his pleasure. 1718 Freethinker No. 57 ¶2, I have hitherto taken my Beauty for Granted. 1771 Junius Lett. liv. 287, I take the facts he refers to for granted. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey i. vi, I want you to take no theological dogmas for granted. 1883 F. M. Peard Contrad. xx, She had taken Dorothy's happiness too much for granted. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 182 He was perfectly frank with Worrogonga who, he took for granted, knew about his assumed character. |
¶ Confused use.
| 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 774 He..takes it as a thing for granted, that this [the soul] is..in every part of the body. |
Hence ˈgrantedly adv., admittedly.
| a 1638 Mede Chr. Sacrif. Wks. (1672) 355 And this so generally and grantedly as could never have been..unless [etc.]. |