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self-conˈtained, ppl. a.
[self- 3 a.]
Having all that one (it) needs in oneself (itself); independent of external means or relations; esp. (of persons) not dependent upon, or communicating oneself to, others; reserved or restrained in behaviour.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vii. 694 Our own Bodie's self-containéd motions. 1839Bailey Festus 360 The self-contained Perfection. 1843Dickens Christmas Carol i. 3 Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. vi. ix. §7. 84 The pine rises in serene resistance, self-contained. 1865Meredith R. Fleming viii, A beauty has all the world with her when she is self-contained. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 290 The vast, surging, excited, but self-contained crowd. 1905Chesterton Heretics 181 When London was smaller, and the parts of London more self-contained and parochial.
b. Of a house, or (now more usually) of a flat, or suite of rooms, within a house: Of which the apartments and the approaches are restricted to the use of one family or household; having a private entrance. Orig. Sc.
1827Scott Chron. Canongate v, It is a house ‘within itself’, or, according to a newer phraseology in advertisements, self-contained. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. iv. 126 The Englishman has a weakness..to rent a self-contained house rather than an apartment. 1910Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1174 The only Hotel in the Town having self-contained Suites. 1928E. A. Robertson Cullum xi. 206 We came back in the evening to what was practically a self-contained flat—no one else slept on that landing. 1977Wandsworth Borough News 16 Sept. 15/1 Planning Proposals..7 Eckstein-road, Clapham Junction—conversion to form two self-contained flats.
allusive.1829Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. iv. 73 We are a world ‘within ourselves’, a ‘self-contained house’.
c. Of a machine or device: Complete in itself.
1828Scott Aunt Marg. Mirror ii, [The mirror] no longer simply reflected the objects placed before it, but, as if it had self-contained scenery of its own, objects began to appear within it. 1839–47[see self-containedness below]. 1869Rankine Cycl. Mach. & Hand-tools Pl. K 3, It [sc. shearing-machine] is self-contained, is easily fixed, requires..but moderate skill to work it. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. s.v., Self-contained engine, an engine and boiler attached together complete for working. 1893J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (1907) 133 A self-contained mechanical device for exposing the plates automatically.
Hence self-conˈtainedly adv., self-conˈtainedness; so self-conˈtaining vbl. n. and ppl. a.; self-conˈtainment, the condition of being self-contained.
1884G. Allen Philistia III. 268 Ernest and Edie..went their own way as *self-containedly as usual.
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 348/2 All the advantage of Mr. Holland's microscope, except its *self-containedness. 1879A. W. Ward Chaucer 147 That self-containedness (very different from self-contentedness) which distinguishes Chaucer. 1882Expositor Aug. 140 The self-containedness, the incommunicableness of God.
1847Emerson Repr. Men, Montaigne Wks. (Bohn) I. 340 This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic—this of consideration, of *self-containing.
1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 101 The nation was to be free, self-helping, *self-containing, unconquerable.
1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 734/1 Their whole condition is..one of unsociability, *self-containment, and isolation. 1866Visct. Strangford Selection (1869) I. 108 A country the very essence of whose positon is self-containment. |