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▪ I. ˈtended, ppl. a.1 [f. tend v.1 + -ed1.] Attended to, looked after, cared for.
1667Milton P.L. v. 22 Mark how spring Our tended Plants. 1866Neale 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.
1799Young in Phil. Trans. XC. 134 It may be proved, that every impulse is communicated along a tended chord with an uniform velocity. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xvii. (1849) 164 A body vibrating near insulated tended strings. |