propertiedadj.
/ˈprɒpətɪd/, U.S. /ˈprɑpərdid/ 1. Having a (usually specified) property, quality, or nature. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > having a certain quality or qualities
positivea1398
tachedc1400
facedc1525
arsed1542
qualitied1567
qualified1590
propertieda1616
qualitated1662
city1946
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 82 His voyce was propertied As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends. View more context for this quotation
1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. i, in Wks. (1874) IV. 9 This approues you To be most nobly propertied.
1739 H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa iv. xi. 60 If thou think'st That crowns are vilely propertied, like coin, To be the Means, the Specialty of Lust.
1854 R. Montgomery Poet. Wks. 276/1 Who can such a Day blaspheme, Thus propertied with those divinest powers?
1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 94 The expression dharma-dharmyabhedát, ‘because of the non-difference of a property and that which is propertied’.
2002 W. F. Vallicella Paradigm Theory of Existence i. 21 A propertied thing is just a state of affairs.
2. Of a person or (esp.) a group or class of people: that owns property, esp. land, buildings, etc.
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the mind > possession > [adjective] > possessing > having possessions
possessing1567
propertied1760
possessioned1794
possessional1848
1760 Comment on Late Extraordinary Let. 18 If a Union were to take place, most of the land propertied people of Ireland would repair to and reside in England.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 92 You are still in the flesh, in a carnal and propertied world.
1795 W. Drennan Let. Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam 56 I do believe, that to give the mass of property, commercial and landed..is to form the propertied community into one great corporation.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 9 267 They are the propertied class.
1888 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. 2nd Ser. viii. 296 Whatever the propertied and satisfied classes may think.
1938 New Statesman 3 Dec. 904/2 He must now embrace..not merely those propertied groups which are reliably republican, but near-Fascists of the Flandin type as well.
1970 C. T. Restrepo in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xiv. 515 Some of the propertied people do think in terms of opening channels of economic ascent in order to increase consumer demand.
1991 Atlantic Oct. 66/1 There were only documents of a propertied country gentleman and his rather hard-nosed business dealings, disposed of in a distinctly unpoetic will.
3. Provided with stage props. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [adjective] > furnished with costumes, props, etc.
costumed1820
scene-painted1886
propertied1901
1901 Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 2/1 The great picture of ‘An Audience in Athens during the Representation of Agamemnon’..is too ‘staged’ and ‘propertied’ to be very convincing.
1909 M. E. Albright Shakesperian Stage 147 The Elizabethan stage..was little more than a union of the old sedes and plateæ of the moralities, or the propertied and unpropertied stages of the interludes.
1927 Daily Express 3 May 1/1 ‘Where are the Socialists?’ was on every one's lips, for theirs provided the only side of the stage which was badly propertied. Any producer would be dismissed for it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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