† locateadj.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
Let or hired out, leased.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [adjective] > hired or let out
let1594
locate1681
letten1767
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. x. 160 The Conductors Obligation is to pay the hire, and after the end of Location, to restore the thing locat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
locatev.
/lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt/, U.S. /ˈloʊˌkeɪt/, /loʊˈkeɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. To establish, site, or place in a particular location; to situate (a building, etc.) in a particular place. In passive frequently in weakened sense: to be found.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > fix or establish in position
i-set971
fastc1275
stablea1300
steada1300
pitchc1300
stablisha1325
ficchec1374
resta1393
seizea1400
locate1513
root1535
plant?a1562
room1567
repose1582
fix1638
haft1728
1513 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 145 Thay locat, limitt, and ordanet the market place..in the market day in the Kowgaitt.
1620 Rec. Perth Kirk Session 4 Jan. Gilbert Robertsounes laich hous..locat in the tenement of land pertening to the hospitale.
1651 W. Ramesey Lux Veritatis 115 He [sc. Jupiter] is located in the Querents second.
1786 M. Cutler Let. 20 Apr. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 190 Much attention ought to be paid in forming a good plan for locating the first settlements.
1813 in J. Maclean Hist. Coll. N. Jersey (1877) II. 153 The Assembly passed an act locating the Theological Seminary permanently at Princeton.
1879 D. T. Leech & W. L. Nicholson Post Office Dept. U.S.A. 71 Letter boxes were located throughout the grounds.
1908 W. H. Hobbs Earthquakes i. 15 The epicenter is located near the center of the area within which there is greatest damage to structure.
a1969 J. K. Toole Confederacy of Dunces (1981) iv. 82 Located through the house..were contour chairs, a massage table, and a motorized exercising board.
2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 166 The building was located in Sheepshead Bay, a provincial town of Brooklyn.
b. intransitive. Chiefly North American. To establish oneself or (later) one's business, company, etc., in a particular place; to settle. Frequently with in.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence
wickc897
telda1325
buildc1340
nestlea1382
to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400
to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425
to take one's lodgec1475
reside1490
inhabit1548
to settle one's rest1562
to sit down1579
to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584
to set (up) one's rest1590
nest1591
to set down one's rest1591
roost1593
inherit1600
habituate1603
seat1612
to take up (one's) residencea1626
settle1627
pitch1629
fix1638
locate1652
to marry and settle1718
domesticate1768
domiciliate1815
to hang up one's hat1826
domicile1831
to stick one's stakes1872
homestead1877
to put down roots1882
to hang one's hat1904
localize1930
1652 in Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1897) 5 35 Divers Indians..have..suffered us to locate upon their land.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xviii. 185 Beneath whatever roof they locate, they disturb the peace of mind and happiness of some confiding female.
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 236/2 I..shall be the guest of Molly Porter, just while I'm locating.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Mar. 5/2 The farmers are going to the following points: Winnipeg, 19; Saskatoon, 19... Nineteen farmers will locate in Ontario.
1999 Evening News (Edinb.) (Nexis) 11 May 25 His campaign hopes to push the Government to..offer funding for companies to locate in the UK.
2014 M. S. Rosentraub Reversing Urban Decline (ed. 2) ii. 59 People and businesses can locate almost anywhere and enjoy easy connections to other parts of the region.
c. transitive. Originally North American. To settle or station (a person) in a place. Frequently reflexive or in passive.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > take up position [verb (reflexive)]
steek?c1335
stow1362
biga1425
plant?1544
pitch1687
adjust1700
station1740
locate1775
park1914
1775 G. Gilmer in Coll. Virginia Hist. Soc. (1887) 6 120 We have been hitherto so located as not to avoid the immediate inconveniences and horrors of war.
1807 R. Cumberland Mem. II. 186 This was amongst the motives that led me to locate myself at Tunbridge Wells.
1840 W. L. Garrison Let. 3 July in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1885) II. 386 I shall do what I can to locate him [sc. N. P. Rogers] in New York.
1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 38 Albaro, the suburb of Genoa where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located’.
1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks iv. iii. 264 They suffered themselves to be diffused and widely located through the great empire of the Caliphs.
1902 Amer. Rev. of Reviews Dec. 695/1 Japanese merchants..are locating themselves in all parts of the interior of China.
1945 Princeton Alumni Weekly 2 Mar. 12/1 The base where I am presently located is scenically quite beautiful.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Dec. (Sport section) Roberts deliberately located himself in the centre of Paris, in the fashionable 7th arrondissement.
d. transitive. In technical use (usually in active form): to position or place (a fixing, component, etc.), esp. in the best or most appropriate location.
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1863 Harris's Princ. & Pract. Dental Surg. (ed. 8) 752 In the second way the holes may be larger..and less accuracy is required in locating the pins.
1891 R. Grimshaw Engine Runner's Catech. 98 Measure..horizontal distances of the bolt holes from the line and from each other, so as to locate the bolt holes.
1945 W. C. Durney Capstan & Turret Lathes iii. 78 Locate a longitudinal stop to part off the bar..from the collet face.
1951 H. C. Town in Gen. Engin. Workshop Pract. (ed. 2) iii. 112/2 A spring-loaded plunger..locates the turret in any one of four positions.
2007 D. Thiel I can do That! 103/2 Locate the screws so they anchor into the outside back slats.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > hire or rent out [verb (transitive)]
let909
hirec1384
rentc1447
to let out1526
locatec1580
wage1590
to farm outa1593
hackney1608
to set out1614
ablocate1623
job1726
to hire out1776
to set off1799
c1580 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 136 William Rynde..hes locat [ed. lotat] and sett the qwerrell of Railstoun till Robert Cvnynghame, quariour, for all the dayis of his lyfe, payand thairfor yeirlie thre pund.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 88 A thing that has been lent or located to or deposited with the deceased.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iii. 232 When a thing is located in perpetuity, as happens in the case of lands belonging to a municipality granted by it in lease.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (transitive)] > appoint to an office or position
setc1000
to make placea1387
give1535
placea1568
locate1602
shop1808
berth1865
line1886
1602 J. Colville Parænese sig. Ĩijv Attentik euidents boyth of doctrin and lineall descent deryuit from th' Apostles and Apostolique men vho had th' only pouer to locat and substitut vthers in thair place.
1648 ‘A. L.’ To all Honest, Wise & Grave-citizens London (single sheet) It is your right, granted in your Charter, to locate, or dislocate, place, or displace, any Officer that is in this City.
1816 J. Bentham Introductory View 5 in Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized His wish will..be, to see located, in each situation, the individual in whose instance the maximum of appropriate aptitude has place.
1830 J. Bentham Militia 5 in Official Aptitude Maximized Persons holding command in this body—to whom does it belong to locate them? To the monarch... To whom to dislocate them, and that at pleasure? To the same.
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a. transitive. Originally and chiefly North American. To designate the place or situation of (a grant, or lands referred to in a grant); to designate (land) for the site of a building, etc. Now historical.
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the world > space > place > [verb (transitive)] > fix in or restrict to a particular place
allocate1660
locate1701
localize1798
1701 Petition 29 Oct. in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1840) IV. i. 204 Lands, some of which are not located and some want Confirmation, which cannot be had before the same be surveyed.
1765 C. Colden Let. 31 May in Coll. N.Y. Hist. Soc. 1877 (1878) II. 10 Your Lordships Commands to give my assistance in locating their Lands on any part between New York and Albany.
1780 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1822) X. 317 Be it enacted..That the ground to be appropriated to the purpose of building thereon a capitol..shall be located on Shockoe hill.
1835 J. Montagu Let. 3 July in J. Bonwick Port Philip Settlement (1883) 373 The application of Mr. Henty to be allowed..to locate a grant of land on the southern coast of New Holland.
1897 E. Hough Story of Cowboy vii. 125 The hidalgo was pretty sure to locate his grant upon the best water he could find.
1904 H. M. Herrick W. W. Phelps i. 2 The Indian neighborhood where..Phelps located his lands was called Weatogue.
2005 J. Jackson Indian Agent viii. 124 They asked that Bean's right to the ‘little salines’ be canceled and he be made to understand..that he had to locate his grant elsewhere.
b. transitive. North American. To survey and define the limits of (a piece of land); to lay out (a road). Also: to establish the boundaries of, or take possession of (a land claim, a gold mine, etc.). Now historical.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking out > mark out [verb (transitive)] > mark position or boundaries of
locate1739
to mark off1803
1739 in C. O. Parmenter Hist. Pelham, Mass. (1898) 26 John Gray and James Allexander are appointed a Comittee To see ye same [road] located in the most Suitable place for Publick Advantage.
1780 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1822) X. 317 An act for locating the publick squares, to enlarge the town of Richmond.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 227 If you want an exact recipe for making such a road,..send a family of musquash through to locate it.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 332 The Golden Queen Mine was located in the latter part of September, 1873.
1911 St. Nicholas Apr. 513/1 To locate a claim! Why, that's what life is! Claiming something as your own, finding out exactly where it is, then going to work on it to improve it.
1999 S. Hall Preserving Glory Days (new ed.) 121 Charles Sampson and David Jenkins located the first mining claim there in June 1911.
c. transitive. Chiefly Australian. To allot or grant (land) to a person. Now historical and rare.
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1804 Sydney Gaz. 12 Aug. It being impracticable to locate larger Allotments to all who now possess, or may hereafter possess Stock.
1828 Edinb. Rev. 47 88 The banks of these rivers are fast filling with settlements,—those of the Hunter..being, we understand, entirely located.
1846 J. I. Guion Let. 16 Jan. in J. T. McIntosh Papers J. Davis (1974) II. 412 The above described lands [are] now located to the said Choctaws.
1851 H. Melville Australasia & Prison Discipline xiii. 335 The Crown does not..deny having at one time or other located the land to individuals, whom the present holders represent.
1952 J. R. Skemp Memories Myrtle Bank 25 The land they had taken..was subsequently ‘located’ to them and they were granted titles to it on relatively easy terms.
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a. transitive. To set (a scene, film, story, etc.) in a particular location.
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the world > space > place > [verb (transitive)] > assign or attribute to particular place
lay1576
locate1781
localize1797
place1885
1781 H. Lloyd Contin. Hist. Late War in Germany Advt. The Remainder of that Work is going on with all Expedition; the Author being now revisiting the several Countries (the Subject of the History) in order to locate the Scenes of Action with more Precision.
1807 R. Cumberland Mem. 476 Under this roof the biographer of Johnson..passed many jovial joyous hours; here he has located some of the liveliest scenes..in his entertaining anecdotes of..Samuel Johnson.
1842 J. H. Newman Ess. Miracles in tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. p. cxxix As if inspired Scripture itself were so precise in dating, locating, and naming the sacred persons and sacred things which it introduces.
1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles vii. 157 These extraordinary actions of omnipotence are conveniently located in the past.
1917 Editor 8 Aug. 171/1 The editor ordered me to write a serial, locating the story in Des Moines.
1920 J. S. Kennard Goldoni & Venice of his Time vii. 276 Goldoni prudently locates the scene in Naples.
2007 J. D. Rhodes Stupendous, Miserable City Introd. p. xiii Chapter 5..explores the possible meanings of Pasolini's decision to locate the film in the Tuscolano II housing project.
b. transitive. To place (an idea, philosophy, artist, etc.) within a particular context.
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1913 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 10 539 Not all of pure experience gets located in the context of things or in the context of consciousness.
1957 Public Opinion Q. 21 69 All adviser-advisee pairs..could then be located within the context of larger social groupings of doctors.
1970 C. Maschler tr. J. Piaget Structuralism ix. 43 Locating the real within a system of virtuals.
1997 P. Jenkins Hoods & Shirts ii. 34 It is necessary to locate their ideas and rhetoric on the broader political spectrum.
2008 Victorian Mar. 24/4 Day's designs locate him unequivocally within the major movements of his time—Aestheticism, the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau.
6. U.S. In the Methodist Church.
a. transitive. To appoint (a minister) to a particular congregation or church. Frequently in passive. Cf. circuit-rider n. at circuit n. Compounds 2. Now historical.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > induction > induct [verb (transitive)]
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institutec1475
pulpit1529
plant1563
settle1719
install1788
locate1798
1798 J. Wilson Apostolic Church Govt. Displayed iii. 114 The Elders or Presbyters of the Apostolic churches, we also find, were in their office and authority, located to individual churches, where their powers were still more circumscribed than those of the Bishops.
a1814 T. Coke in R. Southey Life of Wesley (1820) II. 464 It is most lamentable to see so many of our able married preachers..become located merely for the want of support for their families.
1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. ii. 17 I never heerd you preach so well, says one, since you was located here.
1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot iv. 46 He had asked the presiding elder to locate him as a married man for the next year since he was about to marry.
1929 Relig. Bodies: 1926 (U.S. Dept. Commerce) II. 929 The term ‘local preacher’ is also applied..to traveling ministers who have been located by their conferences.
1995 C. S. Kidwell Choctaws & Missionaries Mississippi vi. 98 The Methodist Conference noted that he had failed to convert a single Indian, and he was ‘located’ to a different post.
b. intransitive. To give up the position of itinerant preacher in order to settle with a particular congregation or church. Cf. itinerate v. 1b.
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1798 J. Wilson Apostolic Church Govt. Displayed iv. 182 A much greater diversity of gifts would be afforded to each community, than if each preacher had located in that church, in which his gifts had rendered him most acceptable.
1839 T. Ware Sketches Life & Trav. xi. 179 Four other preachers..suffered much, in the blessed cause; and they never should have been permitted to locate for want of the small means required to support their families.
1883 Primitive Methodist Mag. 64 502/1 Mr. Wilson has rendered the Connexion great service in mission work round about London... Circumstances, however, render it necessary for him to locate.
1914 T. N. Ivey Southern Methodist Handbk. 34 Should the preacher locate, neither he nor his family has any further claim on the Annual Conference.
2011 A. M. Lawrence One Family under God vi. 178 Southern preacher Edward Dromgoole..made the decision to give up the itinerant life and locate for the sake of his family.
7.
a. transitive. To ascertain the exact location or position of; to find.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [verb (transitive)] > ascertain or determine the position of
locate1813
map1866
position1881
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > find the place of
locate1813
1813 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 300/2 His posthumous information..is..the most interesting, as tending to locate the exact spot of Charles's internment.
1882 B. Harte Flip i. 21 He contented himself..with endeavouring to locate that particular part of the depths from which the voices seemed to rise.
1898 Daily News 2 Sept. 5/2 The gunboats yesterday made a river reconnaissance and located the enemy's position at Kerreri.
1904 W. N. Harben Georgians ii. 19 Has any effort been made to locate 'im?
1953 Chambers's Jrnl. June 378/1 The pilot had not been on a trip of this kind before, so I located the landing patch for him.
2012 Independent (Nexis) 20 Aug. 22 (headline) Technology makes it easy to locate our stolen phones, bikes and cars.
b. transitive. To find out where (a person or thing) can be obtained; to source.
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1922 Smart Set Nov. 135/1 By..locating a couple of exceptionally good dancers, they have converted their..dismal score into very fair entertainment.
1980 ‘L. Cody’ Dupe (1981) xxiv. 175 Perhaps someone will tell me where I can locate a discreet temporary employee.
1985 L. McMurtry Lonesome Dove (1986) i. 18 Call..had never been able to locate enough decent timber to build a new roof.
2006 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 12 Dec. b3 The DEC [sc. Dept. of Environmental Conservation] could not locate a contractor to run the site.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > assign or allot > to a person as his share
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allow?c1450
allot1473
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apportion1587
portion1587
share1596
allocate1616
locate1816
1816 J. Bentham Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized 13 Remuneration thus located is a premium on inaptitude.
9. transitive (in passive). Of a quality, faculty, etc.: to lie or reside; to be found.
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1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin iv. 57 Even the tenth part of those homely virtues..are matters of plebeian admiration in the persons of royalty; and every tangible point in every such virtue so located, becomes a convenient peg for the suspension of love and loyalty.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ii. 32 Placing the hand on the stomach, in accordance with the natural and wide-spread theory that desire and passion are located there.
1892 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 161 Was it not a mistake, after all, to believe that the soul is located in the body?
1921 Telephony 3 Dec. 16/1 The selfish sentiments are located in the upper rear or crown head.
1990 Yoga Jrnl. May 48/1 Once you've decided that consciousness is located in the brain, you have to conclude that consciousness ceases when the brain dies.
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