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Definition of Meaned
1. Adjective. (context: in combinations) Having a specific type of mean (mathematical mean) ¹
2. Verb. (nonstandard or obsolete) (past of mean) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meaned
1. mean [v] - See also: mean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meaned
Literary usage of Meaned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1801)
"They please as much more, as they evidently meaned to please; he caught the
reigning character, and, On the animated canvas stole The sleepy eye that spoke ..."
2. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh by Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908)
"My Mother says " they that meaned at a gowden gown got aye the sleeve "; an honest
proverb, and full of truth. Never despond my heroic Jane! ..."
3. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1877)
"«t7^Jn.i \J [meaned him, or] disengaged him, (ТА,) or withheld him, (Meb,) namely,
a man, (S, Msb, ТА,) [from his custom, or habit. ..."
4. The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction, Historical and by Goold Brown (1858)
"lu determines what particular thing is meaned."—Ib., p. 11. ... As if I meaned
not the first but tho second creation."—Barclay's Works, iii, 2v. ..."
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