expandedadj.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 81 There is a figge tre soe expande, that mony multitudes of peple may sytte vnder the latitude of oon figge tre.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 225 Then with expanded wings he stears his flight Aloft. View more context for this quotation

1795 R. Southey Vision Maid of Orleans ii. 34 A wide expanded den.

1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 316 The animal holds fast by the expanded end of its foot.

1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xix. §5. 310 A wyvern, its tail nowed and wings expanded or.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 641 [Printing] Roman and Italic types..expanded or letters widened horizontally.

1890 Builder 28 June 477/3 A strip of steel..is fed into a powerful automatic machine, which..produces a sheet of expanded metal.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 1/3 The plaster..is spread upon expanded metal lathing.

1913 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. (ed. 4) 434 Expanded steel, steel sheet which is pierced and opened out in a machine, yielding lozenge-shaped spaces, which are filled, and the whole embedded in concrete.

1937 Discovery Jan. 20/2 A concrete jacket reinforced by expanded metal and pieces of scrap iron.

1958 Observer 3 Aug. 7/3 The first expanded metal..was to replace timber laths in plaster work.

1968 Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 10 Expanded metal, a mesh consisting of a lattice-work of undulating strands.

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 132 The Husbandmen..were..provided for in his large expanded House.

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 409 If one part in bulk of this expanded oxygen be mixed with three parts of pure oxygen gas.

1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. (Matt. vi. 13) App. 9 The embolism, or expanded last double petition.

1931 O. Jespersen in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXVI. 524 By the side of the simple tenses we have in English expanded tenses, e.g.: simple: he works, he worked, he has worked; expanded: he is working, he was working, he has been working.

1931 O. Jespersen in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXVI. 527 The expanded infinitive often serves to emphasize the present moment, as in What can he be doing? as against the more general What can he do?

1932 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 31 469 The expanded form must always be employed where the simple form, if used, might be construed as having general force.

1963 F. T. Visser Hist. Syntax Eng. Lang. I. iii. 189 When..to be occurs in the ‘expanded’ or ‘progressive’ form, as in ‘You are being naughty’.