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reˈturned, ppl. a.
[f. return v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Bent or turned back in some way; esp. made with a return.
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 35 A certeyne Damsell deyf and dumm, lackyng sight of boeth yen and with returnyd leggis contract. 1605B. Jonson Masque of Blackness Wks. (1616) 894 The attyre of Masquers was alike in all,..but returned on the top with a scroll and antique dressing of feathers. 1858Skyring's Build. Prices 77 All returned beads, double price. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 60 The returned stalls are all about equally advantageously placed.
2. a. That has (or have) come back.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. iv. 180 Euery of this happie number..Shal share the good of our returned fortune. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xv. §32. 629/2 The treason had successe, and their returned ambassadors told it for certaine. 1837T. Hook Jack Brag v, When she saw the sunken eye of her beloved parent fixed..on her returned child. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 292 More refreshing was the talk of a tall returned Californian.
b. Designating a discharged serviceman who has returned home from a war. Canad., Austral., and N.Z.
1915Eye Opener (Calgary, Alberta) 11 Dec. 2/3 An army of returned soldiers..who have been away fighting for the Empire are not going to..allow themselves to be told what is right and what is wrong by a bunch of stay-at-home aldermen or freak legislators. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Mar. 1/4 A body of 600 returned men today marched to the city hall and demanded..that no returned men be refused relief by the city council. 1930W. K. Hancock Australia xiii. 274 The only notable non-political body in Australia (excluding the churches) is the Returned Soldiers' League. 1947E. A. McCourt Music at Close i. vi. 65 Latimer stopped..to pick up..a returned man living on a settlement grant. a1948L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) xi. 314 After the 1914–18 War the Government resumed the Old Man Range country..and settled a returned soldier on it. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 26/2 Ten 10-acre sections have been allocated to returned servicemen. 1961P. White Riders in Chariot viii. 236 You cannot tell me..that a home is not a home, with so many going roofless, and so many returned men.
3. Sent or brought back. returned empty, an empty cask, case, etc., returned to the sender; also transf.; e.g., a clergyman who has come back to Great Britain from duties overseas.
In quot. 1722 the precise meaning is, ‘to be returned’.
1722De Foe Col. Jack vii, A man..wanted to know if he could hear of any returned horses for England. 1749Fielding Tom Jones x. vi, The coach..was indeed a returned coach belonging to Mr. King of Bath. 1890Pall Mall G. 12 Apr. 6/3 They were Colonial Bishops—returned empties, as the profane scoffingly call them. 1896Strand Mag. XII. 339/1 Reaching its destination without being dealt with by the Post Office as a returned item. 1946P. Bottome Lifeline xv. 137 A milk lorry..goes from here taking returned empties, and bringing back milk at dawn. 1961B. Fergusson Watery Maze ix. 220 Several of these [ships] were veterans both of Ironclad and Torch, which meant that they had already spent months in unprofitable voyaging as returned empties, so to speak. 1977C. Allen Raj i. 23/2 Early in the nineteenth century..unmarried women were regularly shipped out..to meet the demand for wives... Those who returned without husbands or fiancés were known as ‘Returned Empties’.
†4. Of a match: Played in return. Obs. rare.
1773in Waghorn Cricket Scores (1899) 95 The returned match of cricket between the above elevens. Ibid. 96.
5. Stated in a return or official record.
1892Pall Mall G. 18 May 3/1 He won the 100 yards championship in returned time 9 3-5 seconds. |