patternedadj.

1655 J. Sanders Iron Rod sig. A^v The manner of the Whore of Babels fal, and all false forms in one day in this land to be a patterned example for the whole world to follow.

1695 E. Settle Augusta Lachrymans 7 Oh! might the Greater Globe Thy Pattern'd Honour rule; How Courts, States, Crowns, might Learn, ev'n from Thy City-School.

2003 R. A. Ramsaran in J. P. Sampley Paul in Greco-Roman World 443 He [sc. St. Paul] appeals to these traditions in relationship to Christ's death;..he draws a ‘patterned example’ from the Exodus story to guide present behavior within the community.

1758 ‘Mrs. Richwould’ South Sea Fortune I. vi. 91 Having in my own mind pitched upon the most beautiful blue silk, with a trailing pattern of gold all over it,..she casting her eye to this,..said she, this pleases me the best of any of them. It is an old patterned thing, said I.

1770 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser (Electronic ed.) 16 June Some Chinese patterned linen handkerchiefs.

1805 H. Lee Canterbury Tales V. 24 Neat window curtains, pretty-patterned sopha, and unsoiled carpet.

1876 J. Martineau Hours of Thought 292 The horizontal sun..piercing the forest with a patterned glory.

1882 Archaeologia Cantiana 14 104 A pavement..of coloured and patterned tiles.

1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos v. 19 Ecbatan, City of patterned streets.

1977 Jersey Evening Post 26 July 10/1 Her bridesmaid..wore a long, tiered empireline voile dress, made of a yellow and red floral patterned material.

2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Feb. 17 Ethnic patterned top with flowy sleeves, £25.

1836 J. Baillie Enthusiasm II. i. ii 336 Why should beautiful thoughts be cramped up in such patterned shapes of versification—all rule and difficulty?

1922 Mind 31 361 That knowledge is the result of inference from the patterned and continuous data, which are already adaptive responses to the things which cause them.

1939 Man 39 101/1 There is surely a tinge of the anecdotal so long as an ethnographer gives us no check upon his statement or implication that a behaviour or a patterned set of responses is or is not typical.

1970 G. A. Theodorson & A. G. Theodorson Mod. Dict. Sociol. 293 Patterned evasion, a regularised way of deviating from an established social norm.

2002 Gold Coast Bull. (Nexis) 31 Dec. t04 Psychologists say it [sc. the breaking of New Year resolutions] has to do with our patterned behaviour, and is a combination of social pressures, tradition, and an inaccurate concept of what failure means.

1950 A. L. Washburn in Revue Canad. de Géogr. 4 8 The terms Rutmark, Strukturboden..stone polygons, mud circles, soil circles, mud polygons, soil polygons, fissure polygons, tundra polygons, stone stripes, soil stripes, solifluction stripes and others have all been used to describe features here collectively named patterned ground for want of a satisfactory collective term in English... The writer would restrict the use of patterned ground to more or less symmetrical features.

1973 Nature Physical Sci. 4 June 85/2 These structures [sc. gilgai] are forms of patterned ground, having a surface expression as roughly polygonal to rectilinear-parallel systems of low ridges between hollows.

1992 R. M. Bone Geogr. Canad. North i. ii. 31 Except for areas of solid bedrock, patterned ground is widely found in the Arctic Lands geomorphic region.