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▪ I. rented, ppl. a.1|ˈrɛntɪd|
[f. rent v.1 + -ed1.]
†1. Possessed of, or endowed with, property yielding a revenue or income. Obs.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xi. 265 Let hure be knowe For ryche oþer wel yrented [etc.]. 1493Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 7 Lordes and rented men must labour to kepe holy chyrche in rest and peas. 1648Hexham, Een Rentenier,..a Rented man. 1761Chron. in Ann. Reg. 107 The jesuits..demand that the houses of the society may be considered in the same light as the regular abbeys and other rented monasteries.
2. Held, or let, for rent; leased or tenanted.
a1687Petty Pol. Arith. vi. (1691) 100 Moreover if rented Lands, and Houses, have increased. 1894H. H. Gardener Unoff. Patriot 60 A nasty little rented house without so much as a garden patch to it.
3. In Combs. as dear-rented, high-rented, low-rented, lower-rented.
1801Jane Austen Let. 3 Jan. (1952) 100 It used to be lower rented than any other house in the row. 1818Fearon Sk. Amer. 284 First-rate brick buildings, all new,..and always high rented. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 543/1 His house is, to be sure, dear-rented from its locality. 1886Col. Maurice's Let. fr. Donegal 41 The tenants on that particular estate are remarkably low-rented. 1939M. S. Rice Working-Class Wives viii. 195 The shortage will not have been overtaken by 1941 even if the process of ‘filtering-up’, (i.e. people who can afford to do so vacating the lower-rented houses and moving into unsubsidized higher-rented houses) were steady and complete.
▪ II. † ˈrented, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. rent v.2 + -ed1.]
Torn, lacerated, distracted.
1575Mirr. Mag., K. Manlius L'envoi 1 Straunge it semes to thee What he that beares this rentid corps should be. 1587Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 78 They royst in silke, when others range the streete in rented rags. 1591Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) 14 Scalding sighes blowne from a rented heart. |