▪ I. landed, a.
(ˈlændɪd)
[f. land n.1 + -ed2.
The OE. ȝelandod (= MHG. gelandet), which occurs once in the sense 1 below, is of different formation, the pple. of a vb. *landian (cf. gódian to endow with goods). It is possible that the mod. word may partly represent this.]
1. Possessed of land; having an estate in land.
Formerly often qualified by advs.; as most, well, best landed; also in parasynthetic comb., as great-landed. The collocation landed man was not uncommonly written with a hyphen and occas. as a single word.
| c 1000 Laws of æthelstan §11 in Schmid Gesetze 26 ælc minra þeᵹna þe ᵹelandod sy. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 312/1 Londyd, or indwyd wythe lond, terradotatus. c 1470 Henry Wallace ix. 1810 Na landyt man chapyt with him bot ane. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxii. 76 How suld I leif that is not landit? 1579 J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf D iij, Noble men and other great landed ones. 1595 Shakes. John i. i. 177 A landlesse Knight, makes thee a landed Squire. 1605 Camden Rem. (1637) 212 Descended from an Ancestor well landed in Kent. 1647 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xxii. (1739) 40 In such case a Country-Gentleman should be fined one hundred and twenty shillings if he were landed. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 454 Sir Oliver Hingham was born, richly landed, and buried in Hingham. 1691 Locke Consid. Lower. Interest (1692) 16 The Landed man who thinks perhaps by the fall of Interest to raise the Value of his Land. 1714 Swift Pres. State Affairs Wks. 1755 II. i. 202 The majority of landed-men. 1778 Boswell Johnson (1831) IV. 104 That a landed gentleman is not under any obligation to reside upon his estate. 1849–50 Alison Hist. Europe XIV. xcv. §96. 190 The gradual extinction of the old landed aristocracy. |
b. transf. (humorous). Characteristic of, or giving the impression of, a landed man.
| 1826 Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 88/2 A large man, with a large head, and very landed manner. |
2. landed interest: interest or concern in land as a possession; the class having such interest.
| 1711 Addison Spect. No. 126 ¶8 The first of them inclined to the landed and the other to the monied Interest. 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade 76, I have shewn, how much it concerns the Landed and Trading Interests to be Friends to each other. 1842 J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 265 It became evident that the landed interest were mistaken in the views they entertained. a 1859 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiv. (1861) V. 126 The old landed interest, the old Cavalier interest, had now no share in the favours of the Crown. 1880 Disraeli Endym. I. i. 7 There are other interests old landed besides the landed interest now. |
3. Consisting of land; consisting in the possession of land; (of revenue) derived from land.
| 1711 Addison Spect. No. 69 ¶7 It has multiplied the Number of the Rich, made our Landed Estates infinitely more Valuable than they were formerly. 1796 Ld. Sheffield in Ld. Auckland's Corr. III. 357 Not because they had..talents.., but because they have landed property. 1800 Stuart in Owen Wellesley's Desp. 575 The landed revenues of Guzerat are also very considerable. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 126 Those tribes..which possess individual landed property. 1862 Trollope Orley F. i, A landed estate in Yorkshire of considerable extent and value. 1896 Law Times CII. 124/2 Could the coroner himself be removed for want of the landed qualification? |
Add: [1.] [a.] Freq. in colloc. landed gentry.
| 1752 Hume Ess. & Treat (1777) I. 221 It consists chiefly of nobles and landed gentry. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White III. 368 Do you talk in that familiar manner of one of the landed gentry of England? 1974 M. Fido R. Kipling 28/1 He was of the landed gentry, and could teach his friends about the different bores of guns. 1992 Spy (N.Y.) May 52 Americans don't share the English landed gentry's time-honoured—and by now pretty vestigial—disdain for ‘trade money’. |
4. Engin. Having a land (land n.1 9 a, b); esp. in landed plunger, a plunger which when mated with a corresponding mould forms an accurate seal.
| 1942 J. Sasso Plastics for Industr. Use iii. 34 (caption) Accuracy of alignment of mold members makes the landed plunger mold especially suitable for parts with very thin sections. 1971 Exper. Mech. XI. 171/2 A method for correcting stress-concentration factors at fillets in landed structures has been presented and confirmed by strain measurements. 1984 E. P. Degarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) ix. 211 The landed-plunger type mold is most commonly used, providing good pressure and a definite cutoff to assure accurate dimensions. |
▪ II. landed, ppl. a.
(ˈlændɪd)
[f. land v. + -ed1.]
1. That has landed or gone ashore: in comb. as new-landed, newly landed.
| 1835 Court Mag. VI. 235/2 The new-landed throng Find no lodging at hand. 1890 ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 76/1 For a newly-landed official, I don't recollect seeing your equal. |
2. Caught, stuck, encumbered with.
In some of the examples a use of the pa. pple. of land v. rather than a ppl. adj.
| 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire 100 A'm fairly lantit wee the aul' coo. 1900 G. B. Shaw Press Cuttings 34 Sometimes..they get an idea of their own; and then of course youre landed. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger iv. vi. 508 The right sort of women don't get landed as the wives of convicts. 1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday xxii. 171 One thing leads to another..an' then, before you know where you are, you're landed. 1947 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 23 Oct. in Coll. Ess. (1968) IV. 382 I've been landed with another long article which I can't dodge out of. 1960 ‘N. Shute’ Trustee from Toolroom i. 7 You'll be landed with a cat for the rest of your lives. 1974 K. Royce Trap Spider i. 27, I told you that I'd speak to your son and I'm landed with it. |
3. landed immigrant: an immigrant to Canada, admitted for permanent residence; so landed (immigrant) status.
| 1910 Statutes of Canada c. 27, s. 2 (p), ‘Land’, ‘landed’ or ‘landing’, as applied to passengers or immigrants, means their lawful admission into Canada by an officer under this Act, otherwise than for inspection or treatment or other temporary purpose provided for by this Act. 1963 Maclean's Mag. 20 Apr. 18/3 The only black people freely admitted to Canada as landed immigrants are a limited number of women. 1964 Calgary Herald 4 May 25/3 If he is to see his child, he will have to..be accepted as a landed immigrant. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 2 May 2/4 Brooks..was granted landed immigrant status but Stonehill was refused. Ibid., Stonehill's bid to obtain landed status had strong political repercussions in Ottawa. 1973 Ibid. 27 Dec. 2/2 Most Canadians don't realize it but any visitor or landed immigrant with less than five years residence can be deported, together with his entire family, for any criminal code offence, including impaired driving or shoplifting. 1975 Canadian Mag. (Toronto) 8 Mar. 6/4 [Some] East Indians who have obtained citizenship or landed immigrant status have been involved in illegal immigration rackets. |