repeatedadj.

1545 W. Turner Rescuynge of Romishe Fox sig. Dvi^v An euel man may bryng furthe good fruetes..withe hys hystories and hys oft repeted good good and withe hys natural resones.

1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah vi. 112 The children of such who liue in Popish darkenesse do confirme this doctrine to vs, who heare and will not heare, who giue no kinde of credit, to oft repeated truthes, out of the booke of God.

1652 Kirk Session Rec. Dumfries 20 Apr. To intimat yit once againe for the often repeited collection for ane new kirk styll.

1718 M. Prior Power 155 The pleasing song, or well repeated tale.

1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxviii. 80 The cold formality of a well repeated lesson.

1835 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 587/2 By mild and frequently repeated doses of gentle aperients.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 270 An old and oft-repeated tale.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiii. 281 They find it much less fatiguing to echo some easily repeated formula.

1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know ii. 19 That ‘little scrap of valour’, the chickadee, keeps his spirits high until ours cannot but be cheered by the oft-repeated, clear, tinkling silvery notes that spell his name.

1992 Forbes 7 Dec. 142/1 Even the much-repeated advice to buy munis is an oversimplification.

2005 Country Living Apr. 77/2 One of my most successful and often-repeated spring flower displays is a grouping of ‘White Triumphator’ lily-flowered tulips.

1577 T. Kendall Trifles f. 14^v, in tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes The Fem, the Floud, the Flame three mischefes Zoilus be: But Zoile thy tongue a mischefe worse then these repeated three.

1589 A. Dowriche French Hist. f. 27^v Benuise came againe with third repeated wound: And slasht him on the thigh.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 4 My supreame Crowne of griefe, and those repeated Vexations of it. View more context for this quotation

1645 J. Milton Sonnet viii, in Poems 50 The repeated air Of sad Electra's Poet.

1703 D. Defoe Let. Apr. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 15th Rep.: App. Pt. IV: MSS Duke of Portland (1897) IV. 62 in Parl. Papers (C. 8497) XLIX. 1 Accept my repeated thanks for the friendship you show.

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 16 The wave-subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil.

1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 219 Though I am certain of this increase of weight from repeated experiments.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xix. 224 Sometimes the impression is formed by the repeated blows of a hammer only.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 661 The events which were passing..on the Continent compelled William to make repeated changes in his plans.

1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 15 Mar. 84/3 Lately having become discouraged with repeated failures I have given the cream to the hogs.

1909 C. S. Churchill Let. 11 Sept. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) ii. 27 Both the P.M. & Herbert Gladstone are black & blue from the repeated pummellings of the 3 suffragettes.

1982 M. Muller Dust to Dust in Deceptions (1991) 29 A few rolls of film had proven unsalvageable after repeated soakings.

2002 Herald (Glasgow) 10 Aug. (Mag.) 44/2 Gina..has been through IVF hell and is still childless after six years of repeated attempts.

1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 523 Thus fully have I cleared myself from all general imputations,..the more industriously, because of the repeatedness of the same.

1775 Statute Law Keene in Coll. New-Hampsh. Hist. Soc. (1827) II. 113 Every such offender shall forfeit..a sum not exceeding three shillings, nor less than one; according to the repeatedness of the offence.

1849 Ainsworth's Mag. 15 359 There is one adornment in this place of tombs that cannot fail to interest the English eye, notwithstanding that its repeatedness at length wearies it.

1878 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 9 34 There is another word ma which seems to mean intensity and repeatedness.

1906 Mind 15 426 The intensity and repeatedness of the sensations.

1996 New Hampsh. Sunday News (Nexis) 10 Mar. a1 They may not remember well because of the repeatedness of the crime.