ppl. a. Also 5 expande. [f. prec. + -ED1.] In the senses of the verb.
1. Spread open, outspread, outstretched, extended; † covering an extensive area.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 81. There is a figge tre soe expande, that mony multitudes of peple may sytte vnder the latitude of oon figge tre.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 225. Then with expanded wings he stears his flight Aloft.
1795. Southey, Vis. Maid Orleans, II. 34. A wide expanded den.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 316. The animal holds fast by the expanded end of its foot.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xix. § 5 (ed. 3), 310. A wyvern, its tail nowed and wings expanded or.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 641 s.v. Printing, Roman and Italic types … expanded or letters widened horizontally.
2. Increased in area or bulk; enlarged. Also fig.
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), I. 272. The husbandmen, &c. were of his family, and provided for in his large expanded house.
1807. T. Thomson, Chem. (ed. 3), II. 409. If one part in bulk of this expanded oxygen be mixed with three parts of pure oxygen gas.
1881. Westcott & Hort, Grk. N. T., App. 9. The embolism, or expanded last double petition.
Hence Expandedness.
1829. Bentham, Wks. (1843), XI. 18. What you say … shows the expandedness and expansiveness of your mind.
