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1. Allowed by law or authority; approved, justified, sanctioned.
1600. Shaks., All’s Well, II. v. 4. You haue it from his owne deliuerance And by other warranted testimonie. Ibid. (1603), Meas. for M., III. ii. 151. The very streame of his life, and the businesse he hath helmed, must vppon a warranted neede, giue him a better proclamation. Ibid. (1605), Macb., IV. iii. 137. Now wee’l together, and the chance of goodnesse Be like our warranted Quarrell.
1693. Norris, Pract. Disc. (1707), IV. 123. Some … generous spirits have … rescued their understandings from this long-settled, and by use almost warranted usurpation.
1714. Steele, Lover, No. 32. (1723), 183. The … Delight, which virtuous Minds feel in the Enjoyment of their lawful and warranted Passions.
1831. Scott, Cast. Dang., xviii. I cannot presume to understand what you call prophecies, with or under warranted authority of old painted books [etc.].
2. Furnished with a legal or official warrant.
a. Of an officer: Holding a rank by warrant.
1746. W. Thompson, R. N. Adv. (1757), 47. These warranted Gentlemen in Office might be more circumspect.
1798. Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), III. 22. An old and faithful Servant of the Crown, and who has been near thirty years a warranted Carpenter.
b. U.S. Granted by a warrant: see LAND-warrant.
1774. Pennsylv. Gaz., 14 Dec., Suppl. 2/3. To be sold … One tract of patented land…. Four tracts of warranted land.
3. For which a warranty is given; guaranteed.
Mod. Our goods are all of warranted quality.
