[f. LAND sb. + -ED2. The OE. ʓelandod (= MHG. gelandet), which occurs once in the sense 1 below, is of different formation, the pple. of a vb. *landian (cf. gódian to endow with goods). It is possible that the mod. word may partly represent this.]
1. Possessed of land; having an estate in land.
Formerly often qualified by advs., as most, well, best landed; also in parasynthetic comb., as great-landed. The collocation landed man was not uncommonly written with a hyphen and occas. as a single word.
c. 1000. Laws of Æthelstan, § 11, in Schmid, Gesetze, 26. Ælc minra þeʓna þe ʓelandod sy.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 312/1. Londyd, or indwyd wythe lond, terradotatus.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IX. 1810. Na landyt man chapyt with him bot ane.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxii. 76. How suld I leif that is not landit?
1579. J. Stubbes, Gaping Gulf, D iij. Noble men and other great landed ones.
1595. Shaks., John, I. i. 177. A landlesse Knight, makes thee a landed Squire.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1637), 212. Descended from an Ancestor well landed in Kent.
1647. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., I. xxii. (1739), 40. In such case a Country-Gentleman should be fined one hundred and twenty shillings if he were landed.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), II. 454. Sir Oliver Hingham was born, richly landed, and buried in Hingham.
1691. Locke, Consid. Lower. Interest (1692), 16. The Landed man who thinks perhaps by the fall of Interest to raise the Value of his Land.
1714. Swift, Pres. State Affairs, Wks. 1755, II. I. 202. The majority of landed-men.
1778. Boswell, Johnson (1831), IV. 104. That a landed gentleman is not under any obligation to reside upon his estate.
1849–50. Alison, Hist. Europe, XIV. xcv. § 96. 190. The gradual extinction of the old landed aristocracy.
b. transf. (humorous). Characteristic of, or giving the impression of, a landed man.
1826. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), II. 88/2. A large man, with a large head, and very landed manner.
2. Landed interest: interest or concern in land as a possession; the class having such interest.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 126, ¶ 8. The first of them inclined to the landed and the other to the monied Interest.
1719. W. Wood, Surv. Trade, 76. I have shewn, how much it concerns the Landed and Trading Interests to be Friends to each other.
1842. Bischoff, Woollen Manuf., II. 265. It became evident that the landed interest were mistaken in the views they entertained.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiv. (1861), V. 126. The old landed interest, the old Cavalier interest, had now no share in the favours of the Crown.
1880. Disraeli, Endym., I. i. 7. There are other interests old landed besides the landed interest now.
3. Consisting of land; consisting in the possession of land; (of revenue) derived from land.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 69, ¶ 7. It has multiplied the Number of the Rich, made our Landed Estates infinitely more Valuable than they were formerly.
1796. Ld. Sheffield, in Ld. Auckland’s Corr., III. 357. Not because they had … talents…, but because they have landed property.
1800. Stuart, in Owen, Wellesley’s Desp., 575. The landed revenues of Guzerat are also very considerable.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 126. Those tribes … which possess individual landed property.
1862. Trollope, Orley F., i. A landed estate in Yorkshire of considerable extent and value.
1896. Law Times, CII. 124/2. Could the coroner himself be removed for want of the landed qualification?
