c1450 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1914) 132 318 (MED) To thynke it es a wondir thynge Of this werldis mutabilytee, I am matede in my mosynge Of the variaunce..þat j now see.

1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. F.iiij The bitter smarte that straines my mated minde.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. A4^v How now my Lord, what, mated and amaz'd To heare the king thus thr[e]aten like himselfe.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xlviii. 14 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 43 The things they see, Amaze their mated mindes.

1597 E. Scory in M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. sig. A3 Yet with these broken reliques, mated minde, And what a iustly-greeued-thought can say.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 282 I thinke you are all mated, or starke mad. View more context for this quotation

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 10 When I get into the street at night, I am so mated, I hardly know where I be.

1886 Ld. Tennyson Promise of May ii, in Locksley Hall 60 Years After 145 The feller's cleän daäzed, an' maäzed, an' maäted, an' muddled ma.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 186/2 Mated/maãted, Confused and bewildered by age and/or events.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Mated out, exhausted with fatigue.

1873 D. M. Ogilvy Willie Wabster's Wooing 11 Oor Willie he was mated oot, And saired ti' craig wi' stir-a-bout.

1891 Trans. Buchan Field Club 2 15 Sair matet rowing against the tide.

1602 T. A. Massacre of Money v. 34 In these matchings and keeping to their mated Companions without change,..may they teach many that come short of that dutie.

1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 102 The mated Turtles, perch on ev'ry Bough. Mark how they Coe and Kiss.

1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 33 Like mated falcons round their creanced young.

1898 Philos. Trans. 1897 (Royal. Soc.) A. 190 258 This type of sexual selection..is measured mathematically by the coefficient of correlation between the two organs or characteristics in mated pairs.

1966 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 126 Several attempts were made to study oviposition in the laboratory by separating mated females in glass chimneys.

1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus xxxiii. 482 Crozier collected a colony of winged males and females, plus a mated queen with pupae.

1997 Nature 16 Oct. 683/1 Recent captures of two female giant squid..have provided the first record of a mated female specimen of these almost mythical creatures.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 684 The product Of those ill-mated Marriages. View more context for this quotation

1821 J. Baillie Lady G. Baillie in Metrical Legends lii Sweet union held of mated will.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vi. 49 Covers were laid for four. The mated pairs were prattling away quite happily.

1899 Scribner's Mag. 25 50/1 Two well-mated young lovers.

1915 C. P. Gilman in Forerunner Nov. 290/1 All the power of beautiful permanent mated love comes through this higher development.

1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 145 Where lay the harness'd bones of the yoke-mated oxen.

1912 J. Armstrong Motor ix. 173 The final drive..is achieved mostly through the medium of bevel-gear, that..is very nearly as wear-resisting as a pair of constantly mated spur-wheels.

1958 V. H. Watson Rover Cars xiv. 230 Wash and examine all parts, renew as necessary, bearing in mind that the crown wheel and pinion are ‘mated’ parts and must be replaced as such.

1987 E. H. J. Pallett Aircraft Electr. Syst. (ed. 3) v. 91/2 In most applications, plugs and sockets are secured in the mated condition by means of threaded coupling rings or nuts.

1656 A. Cowley Destinie in Pindaric Odes i Here I the losing party blame For those false Moves that break the Game,..And above all, th' ill Conduct of the mated King.

1991 Chess Post Apr. 9/2 The black king is far from mated and if Black can consolidate his position he should have a won game.