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uˈnited, ppl. a.
[f. prec.]
1. Put or joined together; combined, connected, made one. (Cf. also sense 4.)
1552Huloet, Vnited, vnitus. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xiii, They will teach those united hearts the greatest Love. 1671Milton Samson 1110 [They] durst not with thir whole united powers In fight withstand me. 1706Prior Ode to Queen xiii, Unmov'd the Two united Chiefs abide. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 340 Anthers 5, narrow, united. 1804Gazetteer Scot. (1806) 541 The united streams of the Dochart and Lochy. 1839T. Mitchell Frogs of Aristoph. p. xcviii, A poem at least of equal length with the Iliad and Odyssey united. 1865–6Cayley Math. Papers (1893) VI. 9 If two points of a unicursal curve have an (a, a′) correspondence, the number of united points is = a + a′.
2. a. Of, belonging to, or produced by two or more persons, agents, or things in union or combination; conjoint, joint.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xxvi, Their united rage was now growne..to a crossing one of another. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. viii. §235 They could not..support the war any longer against the united power of the rebels. 1697Dryden Virg., Georg. iv. 242 All, with united Force, combine to drive The lazy Drones from the laborious Hive. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian ix, With sudden strength, he burst from their united hold. 1820R. Peel in Croker Papers (1884) I. 177 The united voice of King, Lords, and Commons. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr tr. Ranke's Hist. Servia 257 The united consent of all Europe would have been the most desirable. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxiii. 300 Our united estimate assigned to it an elevation of from 2500 to 3000 feet. 1871Jowett Plato II. 174 Incapable of united action by reason of sedition.
b. Constituted or formed by, resulting from, the union of two or more parts or sections.
Freq. in the titles of churches, societies, etc., formed by the union or reunion of bodies or sections which had seceded or were formerly separate, e.g. United Free Church of Scotland, United Methodist Free Church, United Secession Church: cf. 4.
1697Dryden æneis iv. 145 One common kingdom, one united line. 1833J. Davidson Brit. & Rom. Rem. Axminster 25 Where, forming a junction with its fellow [‘trackway’], the united road leads through the town. 1835[T. Jackson] Man. Sects & Heresies 112 In 1829 the two bodies were rejoined under the name of the United Secession Church. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr tr. Ranke's Hist. Servia 284 The united army took up its position close by the mouths of the Morawa.
c. Bot. Of a flower (see quot. 1829).
1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 396 In this genus the Pistil of the united flower scarcely produces seed. 1829T. Castle Introd. Bot. 92 When the stamens and pistils are both, as usual, in one flower, it is called perfect or united.
d. Horsemanship. (See unite v. 1 e and 5 d.)
1884E. L. Anderson Mod. Horsem. 139 When the horse will continue the united trot without the aid of the reins. Ibid., The horse will be practised in keeping the united form at the walk.
†3. Forming or conferring union. Obs.—1
1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. vi. 51 That you'l procure the Vicar To stay for me at Church... And in the lawfull name of marrying, To giue our hearts vnited ceremony.
4. a. Special collocations in the names of states, corporate bodies, or persons allied, associated, or joined together in a union or confederation.
United Brethren, the Moravians; United Colonies, † (a) the four colonies which formed the New England Confederation (see confederation 2); (b) the thirteen North American colonies which revolted against Great Britain and formed the original Republic of N. America (see union n.1 3 c and 7 c, and cf. United States 1 b); United Empire Loyalist: see loyalist; United Front, a common alliance of political groups; spec. in Communism: (a) = Popular Front; (b) in Chinese communism, an alliance with the Kuomintang; subsequently, a coalition of several parties in a Communist government; also transf.; United Greek, a member of the United Greek Church (see quot. 1863), a Uniat; United Irishman, a member of the Society of United Irishmen, a political association, originally formed to promote union between Protestants and Catholics, which became a separatist secret society and took part in organizing the rebellion of 1798; United Presbyterian: (see Presbyterian a. 1 c); United Provinces, the seven northern provinces of the Netherlands, allied together principally by the Union of Utrecht in 1579, and subsequently developing into the kingdom of Holland (cf. United States 1 a).
1586Acts Privy Counc. (N.S.) 190 The knowen subjectes..of the Unyted Provinces. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 92 The States of the vnited Provinces. 1643in Winthrop New Eng. (1826) II. 101 They..do..conclude that they all be..called by the name of the United Colonies of New England. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) II. 252 The Commissioners of our United Colonyes. 1702C. Mather Magnalia iv. iv. 177 It had not been so long before the Names of Presbyterian and Congregational, had been melted down into that One of United Brethren. 1775Pennsylv. Even. Post 21 Dec. 587/1 Captain Coit, in an armed schooner of the United Colonies, lately chased a transport. 1777R. Watson Philip II, xxiv. II. 406 Although this event gave great satisfaction to the people subject to the Spanish government, it was not likely to produce any change in the sentiments, or conduct of their neighbours in the United Provinces. 1791in W. Tone Autobiog. (1826) I. 368 We have agreed to form an association to be called ‘The Society of United Irishmen’. 1799J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 4 He is doubtless a United Irishman. 1837S. Lover Rory O'More I. x. 214 An extended palm which..exchanged with him the grip of the United Irishman. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers i. ii. I. 90 The United or orthodox Greeks. 1863Chambers' Encycl. V. 88/1 The United Greek Church comprehends those Christians who, while they..observe the general discipline of the Greek Church,..are yet united with the Church of Rome. Ibid., The United Greeks. 1934A. Werth France in Ferment xiii. 277 The rank and file of the United Front and of Bergery's Front Commun are merely unhappy and disgruntled people. 1935B. Russell Relig. & Sci. ii. 42 The wars of religion made a ‘united front’ desirable. 1937E. Snow Red Star over China iii. iii. 101 The building up of a United Front, such as has been advocated by the Communist Party ever since 1932. 1943J. T. Pratt War & Politics in China xv. 264 Ch'iang Kai Shek..sternly rejected the overtures of the Shensi communists who naively proposed to enter the united front as the equal allies of the Kuomintang. 1954Round Table Dec. 46 United Front leaders in East Bengal. 1958J. Cannan And be Villain i. 6 That blasted Primrose will have arrived..and the old witch herself will be there... I'll have a united front to cope with. 1971J. J. Taylor in D. J. Dwyer China Now (1974) xxii. 412 Mao's insistence on the development of an armed capability..is a reflection of the history and the experience of the Chinese Communist Party, most notably the failure in 1927 of the First United Front with the KMT and the marked Communist success with the Second United Front between 1937 and 1945. 1980S. J. Burki Pakistan under Bhutto ii. 22 The Muslim League was squarely beaten in Bengal by the United Front.
b. United Kingdom, the kingdom of Great Britain, (after the union with Ireland in 1801) of Great Britain and Ireland, or esp. (after the formation of the Irish Free State in 1921) of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Abbrev. U.K.
1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 609/1, I have more Reason to oppose it, than any Man in this House, nay perhaps than any Man in the United Kingdom. 1800Act 39 & 40 Geo. III, c. 67. 359 The said Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland shall..be united into one Kingdom, by the name of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1832Act 2 & 3 Will. IV, c. 75 §1 That part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, and..that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland.
c. United Irishism, the views or principles of the United Irishmen.
1800W. Drennan in Microscope March 134 He fears that political and religious schism, that White-Boyism,..Catholicism, United-Irishism may..change into Patriotism. 1844P. Harwood Hist. Irish Reb. 120 Munster was..the only province of Ireland not deeply leavened with Defenderism or United Irishism.
d. United Nations: in the war of 1939–45, the Allied nations who united against the Axis powers; hence, an international peace-seeking organization of these and many other States, founded by charter in 1945 (in full, United Nations Organization), with a permanent headquarters in New York; abbrev. U.N. s.v. U 4 a; cf. League of Nations; Security Council s.v. security 12 e; trusteeship 2 b.
1942Daily Tel. 28 Jan. 3/3 But at any rate it will be long enough for Japan to inflict..losses upon all of the United Nations who have..possessions in the Far East. 1942H. A. Wallace in N.Y. Times 9 Nov. 19/7 The first article in the international law of the future is undoubtedly the United Nations' Charter. 1944[see Security Council s.v. security 12 e]. 1946A. Boyd (title) The United Nations Organisation handbook. 1953R. Niebuhr Christian Realism & Polit. Probl. (1954) ii. 25 The necessarily minimal constitutional structure which we have embodied in the United Nations. 1958Times 7 Aug. 7/5 It emphasizes..the case for creating a permanent United Nations police force, including an increased number of United Nations observers. 1974P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 141 Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt came to propose that the organization be called ‘The United Nations’... I put forward a motion to the effect that we accept Mrs Roosevelt's proposal subject to a committee of jurists being satisfied that the term ‘United Nations’ presented no legal difficulty. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts July 501/2 The inter-governmental component of world conservation is represented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). |