reportedadj.
/rᵻˈpɔːtᵻd/, U.S. /rəˈpɔrdəd/, /riˈpɔrdəd/ That is or has been reported (in various senses of the verb); esp. that is commonly talked of, rumoured, reputed.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > written record > [adjective] > recorded in writing
reported1561
recorded1577
undispungeda1670
1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc ii. ii. 9 Ne bring I to my lorde reported tales Without the ground of seen and searched trouth.
1622 T. May Heire ii. sig. D 2 Thus in disguise I haue discouer'd all, And found the cause of my reported death.
1683 A. Behn Young King iv. ii. 41 Unworthy Scythian, whose reported Valour Unjustly was admir'd.
1726 E. F. Haywood Double Marriage 37 A young Lady of her reported Beauty, Fortune, and Accomplishments, cou'd not hear what he had done..without being possess'd of a disdain for him.
1778 W. Kenrick Lady of Manor iii. ii. 50 That resolve does not square with your reported generosity, Sir Wilful.
1839 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 2) II. iv. iv. 144 Every year adds three or four more [volumes], exclusively of the reported cases in equity.
1888 Chambers's Encycl. at Apparitions A Society for Psychical Research was founded for the scientific and systematic investigation of reported apparitions, clairvoyance,..and the phenomena called spiritualistic.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 6/1 They sometimes unjustly credit a reported failure as due to incompetence rather than poor business generalship.
1962 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 84 2831/1 The recently reported carboranes..which contain carbon and boron but no bridge hydrogen.
2000 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. d10/4 He signed a five-year contract with Buick last year for a reported $30 million.
Compounds
reported speech n. the words of one speaker relayed by another, esp. in a subordinate clause which is (in English) governed by a reporting verb with the pronouns and tense adjusted to the viewpoint of the person reporting.More general usage of the term includes both direct and indirect speech, although a more restricted sense, equivalent only to indirect speech, is often intended. The grammatical and syntactic characteristics of reported speech are not the same in all languages. Cf. direct adj. 6b, indirect adj. 3b. Cf. also oratio obliqua n.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > direct speech > [noun] > indirect speech
oratio obliqua1842
reported speech1846
reportative1950
1846 T. H. Key Lat. Gram. 256 Reported speech or thoughts (obliqua oratio)... When the words or thoughts of another are reported and not in the first person, it is called the obliqua oratio, and all secondary clauses..are in the subjunctive mood.
1900 Classical Rev. 14 404/2 Compare the sudden change from direct to reported speech.
1987 TESOL Q. 21 307 Original utterance. George: Tomorrow we will drive out to California... Reported speech: direct quotation. George said: ‘Tomorrow we will drive out to California.’.. Reported speech: indirect (one week has elapsed). George said (that) the next day they would drive out to California.
2002 R. Baker & C. Moorcroft Gram. First II. xxii. 46/1 Identify the features of reported speech: no speech marks; the past tense replaces the present; and the pronouns change because the narrator is a third person.
Derivatives
reˈportedly adv. according to report or rumour; reputedly, allegedly.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > reporting > [adverb]
reportingly1600
reportedly1850
mbu2002
1850 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 14 June 8/5 The debut of Olympian, one of Lord Stanley's reportedly strong lot of two year olds.
1939 O. D. Russell House of Mitsui i. 21 One of the younger Mitsui scions reportedly is the owner, under an assumed name, of one of the night-life cafés of Tokyo.
2001 Population & Devel. Rev. 27 225 Some officials reportedly profiteer by rerouting food aid to open markets where it sells at elevated prices.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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