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assisted, ppl. a.|əˈsɪstɪd|
[f. assist v. + -ed.]
Aided, helped. spec. Applied to subsidized passages for emigrants.
185314th Gen. Rep. Colonial Land & Emigration Commissioners (1854) 139 Remittances may be made for either of the following objects:—Assisted passages.—To assist the nominees in paying the expense of their passage and out-fit. Free passages. 185616th Gen. Rep. Emigration Commissioners 9 Emigration from the United Kingdom, which we shall divide into ‘unassisted’, or that of which the expense is defrayed out of private or local funds, and ‘assisted’, or that which is carried on by this Board with funds derived from the Colonies (at present the Australian only) to which the emigrants are sent. 1888C. M. Yonge Our New Mistress xvi. 148 A number of papers about Australia, assuring me of all the advantages of emigration, promising me..an assisted passage. 1937Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLI. 275 An aircraft with the assisted take-off, and therefore not requiring the maximum power output of the engine. 1945Guide Educ. System (Min. Educ. Pamph. No. 2) 57 Assisted School, school not maintained by, but receiving some financial assistance from, an L.E.A. 1954P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm xx. 216 Brown..successfully took off in about half the length of the flight deck. For this he had an assisted take-off with rockets.
1946Encycl. Brit. XV. 470/1 Assisted passage schemes have been arranged which considerably reduce the cost of travel to the settler.
Add:b. assisted place U.K., in an independent school: a place which is subsidized or funded by the State, and is awarded to an able pupil who might otherwise be unable to attend (usu in pl.).
1977N. St. John-Stevas Better Schools for All viii. 46 The direct grant will be replaced by an assisted places scheme, under which all the available money will be devoted to a partial or total remission of tuition fees in accordance with a generous income scale. 1980Education Act c.80 §17(1) The Secretary of State shall..operate a scheme whereby..participating schools remit fees that would otherwise be chargeable in respect of pupils selected for assisted places. 1986Times Educ. Suppl. 9 May 4/4 A Labour Government will introduce an ambitious programme..designed to..abolish the assisted places scheme.
Add:2. Special collocation: assisted suicide, suicide effected with the assistance of another person; esp. the taking of lethal drugs, provided by a doctor for the purpose, by a patient considered to be incurable.
1976Internat. Jrnl. Health Services VI. 329 If the Swiss can trust themselves with a law to permit *assisted suicide, it should not be beyond our civic courage to follow their lead. 1981Wallace & Eser Suicide & Euthanasia 87 The relationship between suicide and euthanasia becomes clear: euthanasia is assisted suicide. 1992Via Media/Episcopal Life Jan. 28/2 Suicide and assisted suicide are two of those exits that ultimately must be viewed with mercy by God. |