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altered, ppl. a.|ˈɔːltəd|
[f. alter + -ed.]
1. Made otherwise, changed in some particulars.
a1400Chester Plays i. 6 Not altered in many poyntes from the olde fashion. 1549Compl. Scotl. vii. 70 It vas baytht altrit in cullour ande in beaulte. 1699Dryden Pal. & Arc. i. 562 And gazing there, beheld his alter'd look. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 529 Shame touch'd Eurylochus's alter'd breast. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xviii. 356, I have been an altered character ever since I knew you. 1870Jevons Elem. Logic xxvii. 235 We can see the stars in slightly altered positions.
†2. Thirsty. (Cf. Fr. altéré ‘dry, athirst, almost dried up,’ Cotgr. 1611; and see quot. dated 1605 under altering ppl. a. 2. In this sense Diez suggests a confusion with med.L. arteriātus.) Obs.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxx. (1612) 295 And here mine altred Muse this theame surceaseth to pursue. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. vii, So altered, and a dry with drinking these flat wines, that they did nothing but spit.
Add:[3.] Special Collocation. altered state (in full altered state of consciousness) [tr. G. veränderte Bewusstsein (Breuer & Freud 1893, in Neurol. Centralbl. XII. 10)], any state of mind that differs from the normal state of consciousness or awareness of a person, esp. one induced by drugs, hypnosis, or mental disorder; also attrib. or as adj.
[1924J. Rickman tr. Breuer & Freud in Freud's Coll. Papers I. ii. 33 When a trauma effective enough in itself occurs during a state of seriously disabling affect or of altered consciousness.] 1941Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. XXXVI. 489 Hypnotic behavior, the striving to behave as if hypnotized, takes place in an *altered state of the person. 1965Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Jan. 104/1 The use of hallucinogenic..substances to produce altered states of consciousness is not new. 1968Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry CXIV. 1209/2 Altered-state subjects who appear to minimally attend to their surroundings. 1989D. Koontz Midnight i. lvi. 230 They seek an altered state in which complex emotions and pleasure aren't linked—the life of an unthinking beast. |