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removed, ppl. a.|rɪˈmuːvd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Distant in relationship by a certain degree of descent or consanguinity.
Properly denoting a degree in descent, as first cousin once removed = a cousin's child; but in later use freq. employed in vague designations of distant relationship, as cousin seven times removed.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 53 Barbara doughter to therle of zilie cosyn germain removed to kyng Henry. 1594Parsons Confer. Success. ii. iv. 75 Edmond was but nephew remoued, that is to say, daughters sonnes sonne to the said king Richards other uncle. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 802 Those that are Iermaine to him (though remou'd fiftie times) shall all come vnder the Hang-man. 1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii. s.v. Cousin, A Cousin once removed, Cousin issu de germain. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. 62 He's my Cousin-German, quite remov'd. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xviii, My grandfather's brother's daughter..rabbit it! I have forgot the degree; but this I know that he and I are cousins seven times removed. 1841Lytton Money i. vii, Cousin to the deceased, seven times removed. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. i, He is a cousin, several times removed.
transf.1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. iv. 71 Vpon a lye, seuen times remoued.
2.
†a. Remote; retired, secluded. Obs.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 360 Your accent is something finer, then you could purchase in so remoued a dwelling. 1609Dowland Ornithop. Microl. 54 Imperfection is made not only by the neere part of the Notes, but also by the remoued part. 1632Milton Penseroso 78 Or if the Ayr will not permit, Som still removed place will fit.
†b. Separated by time or space. Obs. rare.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 92 His false cunning..grew a twentie yeeres remoued thing While one could winke. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xxxiii. 105 They haue the aduantage of being beleeued, before a remoued friend.
†c. Segregated or set apart. Obs. rare—1.
1611Bible Ezek. xxxvi. 17 Their way was before me as the vncleannesse of a remooued woman.
d. Lifted or taken away.
1625[see hardly adv. 10]. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxii. ⁋8 He removes the other Transpos'd Page into the place of the first remov'd Page. 1688R. Holme Acad. i. iii. 22/1 If the under Chief had been the colour of the Field, then it had been termed a Chief removed, or fallen out of its place. a1716South Serm. (1823) V. 281 Nobody..languishes with the remembrance of a removed sickness. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) I. 93 He took the removed chair, and drew it..near mine.
3. In predicative use: Remote, separated, or distant from something, in lit. and fig. senses.
1617Moryson Itin. i. 214 He was like neuer to be redeemed, being farre remoued from Christians, who onely trade vpon the Coasts. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. iii. §1 They are farther removed from a title to be innate. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 172 [He] is not, in knowledge or rationality, three degrees removed from the brute. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. vi. (1875) 77 A corrupt tongue, equally removed from Latin and from modern French.
Hence reˈmovedness.
1604Shakes. Wint. T. iv. ii. 41, I haue eyes vnder my seruice, which looke vpon his remouednesse. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVII. 147 It has a middle removedness or estrangement from the ordinary speech of men. 1892Temple Bar Jan. 59 The impressions this garden gave were of removedness, of light and shadow, of grass and roses. |