openedadj.
/ˈəʊp(ə)nd/, U.S. /ˈoʊp(ə)nd/ 1. That has been opened.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [adjective] > opened
openedc1450
reclused1623
OE Rule St. Benet (Tiber.) (1888) Prol. 2 Apertis oculis nostris : geopenedum eagum uru[m].
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Apoc. iii. 8 I ȝat bifore thee a dore openid, the which no man mai close.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 564/35 Apertus,..openyd.
a1568 in Bannatyne MS (1879) 673/17 Hir hair wes lyk the oppynnit silk.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Forpie, the mouth, or middle of an opened paire of sheeres.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 502 Hardly any [blood] would spurt out of the opened Vein.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxxi. 211 The edge of the open'd door, which he run against, remember'd him to turn his welcome back upon me.
1765 Universal Mag. 37 236/1 A..quantity of this poison is dropped into an opened vein.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. ix. 92 Beer was foaming from the mouths of the opened bottles.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 40 The escort will be drawn up..with opened ranks.
1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy vi. 105 On his opened vest..glinted a five-pointed star of nickel.
1980 W. Berry Econ. Subsistence in Gift of Good Land (1981) 158 Any way..of joining and using the air and light and weather of your own place—even if it is only..an opened window—is a making and a having.
2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 3 Nov. (Features) 11 To the world, they showed a picture of propriety, to each other, an opened can of worms.
2.
a. opened-up adj. that has been opened up. Cf. to open up at open v. Phrasal verbs.
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1877 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 40 480 The working expenditure [of the Russian railways] is..63 per cent. of the gross receipts, but this is not an unreasonable figure in a newly opened-up country.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Jan. 4/3 In the present opened-up condition of Central Africa.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. vii. 97 She leaped from the bed, caught up her slippers, reached for her opened-up bundle.
1993 M. Benedikt Cyberspace 144 Data objects and data points in this new, unfolded, opened-up space.
b. opened-out adj. that has been opened out or exposed. Cf. to open out at open v. Phrasal verbs.
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1879 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 42 777 The cultivation..of corn in these newly opened-out fields has increased.
1978 H. E. L. Andrew Batsford Encycl. Crafts 183/2 Saddle tack wiring is laid in the opened-out tack, which is then buckled close.
1990 P. Callow Vincent Van Gogh (BNC) 92 He had to drag out of nature whatever lay hidden..and exhibit it on the opened-out surface of a work of art.
1993 Spin Apr. 192/2 Vārttinā could be compared to a pepped-up and opened-out version of Mysterious Voices of Bulgaria.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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