pagedadj.
/peɪdʒd/, U.S. /peɪdʒd/ 1. As the second element in compounds: having pages of a specified number or kind, as many-paged, yellow-paged, etc.
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c1690 Apol. for Mr. Walker Fully Vindicated sig. D/1 His three pag'd Conclusion to his Vindication of Mr. Osb. which the Bookseller has made a Six-Penny Book.
1812 R. Wilson Diary 13 Oct. (1861) I. 195 I could write a many-paged book that would shame the niggardliness of other more civilized countries.
a1841 W. G. Clark Ollapodiana (1844) iv. 44 Commend me to a newspaper. Cowper had never seen one of our big sheets, when he called such four-paged folios ‘maps of busy life.’
1882 Cent. Mag. July 464/2 His many-volumed and many-paged ‘Renaissance in Italy’..shows, like these lectures, the impress of John Ruskin.
1961 T. Matshikiza Chocolates for my Wife 88 The sergeant..thumbed querulously through each ninety-six paged pass book.
1991 Bicycle Guide Sept. 12/2 Why am I still receiving my glossy-paged nonrecycled-paper copy of Bicycle Guide two weeks after it's in the shops.
2. Written on a page; folded or ordered into pages; having the pages numbered. Now rare.With quot. 1930 cf. page proof n. at page n.2 Compounds 2.
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society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [adjective] > having pages numbered
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numbered or reckoned > of pages
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1791 tr. Anc. French Arch. 12 Book No 40..has the following title on the first paged leaf.
1808 J. N. Barker Indian Princess I. i. 8 For ye are men Well worth the handing down; whose paged names Will not disgrace posterity to read.
1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 29 Apr. (1956) IV. 433 As I shall not see these paged sheets again, will you charitably assure me that the alterations are safely made?
1889 Athenæum 21 Dec. 853/3 Left by Mr. Bradshaw in a paged revise of 1877.
1930 A. E. Housman Let. 29 June (1971) 297 In the paged proofs..I find that the printers have inserted..a comma.
3. Computing. Of memory, data, etc.: divided into sections or pages (see page n.2 3).
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [adjective] > divided
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1966 IEEE Trans. Electronic Computers 15 857/1 The relationship between hardware and software in a paged and segmented system environment greatly affects system performance.
1973 Nature 6 Apr. 361/2 Among the features that made it [sc. Atlas] one of the most advanced machines in the world at the time were a number of facilities that have since become standard such as its permanent master programme and paged store.
1992 MacUser Nov. 221/1 A/UX 2.0 was a resource hog: It easily filled an 80-megabyte drive and required a Mac with a 68030 processor or a 68020 with a PMMU (paged-memory-management unit).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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