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▪ I. signed, ppl. a.1|saɪnd|
[f. sign v.]
†1. Sealed. Obs.—0
1647Hexham i, A signed letter, een gezegelden brief.
2. Provided with a signature or signatures. Also fig.
1648Hexham ii, Geteeckende artijckelen, signed articles. 1752J. Louthian Form Process (ed. 2) 76 Upon an signed Information given in against the said C.D. 1772Ann. Reg. ii. 202/1 A protest was entered against a signed list, pretending to be sent by Lord Forbes. c1893H. G. Wells Let. in Experiment in Autobiog. (1934) I. vi. 392 They have let me sign an article in the Pall Mall Gazette,..and signed articles in dailies is a distinct advance for a poor wretch like me. 1930G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 30 The ultimatum is here..and I shall not leave this room until I have His Majesty's signed pledge that its conditions will be observed. 1942World Rev. Apr. 38/1 Key features of the newspaper contents were signed articles, and dramatic and literary critiques contributed by the greatest writers. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 5 June 334/2 It is a signed portrait. It is also a highly appealing, fair and convincing one. 1973Times 28 Apr. 11/3 Both recordings contain versions of the ‘signed’ motet Illibata Dei, so called because the composer's name is spelled out in the text as an acrostic.
3. Mus. Placed as a signature. rare.
1662Playford Skill Music (1674) 8 These three Cliffs are called the three signed Cliffs, because they are always set at the beginning of the Lines on which is prickt the Song or Lesson. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Character, Characters of Sign'd Clefs.
▪ II. † signed ppl. a.2
Aphetic f. assigned ppl. a. Obs.
1898Morris Austral Eng. 418 Signed Servant, obsolete contraction for Assigned Servant.
▪ III. signed, a. Arith.|saɪnd|
[f. sign n. + -ed2.]
Having a (plus or minus) sign; esp. as signed number, a positive or negative integer.
1873Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. IV. 111 A signed magnitude. 1905Proc. R. Soc. Edin. XXV. 372 The sum of the signed primary minors of a determinant. 1950Math. Tables & Other Aids to Computation IV. 103 A word may represent a signed-binary number lying somewhere between - 240 and + 240. 1966J. H. Cadwell Topics in Recreational Math. xiv. 160 We shall prove that all derivatives at these points are signed integers or zero. 1969J. J. Sparkes Transistor Switching viii. 193 When writing ‘signed’ numbers the sign digit is identified with a bar over it.
▪ IV. signed
obs. form of singed. |