rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To build or form into a structure; to organize the parts or elements of (something) in structural form.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xliv. 361. In which dangerous Opposition, Equity and Justice being structured and founded on either of the opposite Terms, and a Gap being thereby opened for the ushering in of Injustice and Iniquity.
1876. Spencer, Princ. Sociol., § 186 (1885), I. 365. What degree of likeness can we find between a man and a mountain?… the one has little internal structure, and that irregular, the other is elaborately structured internally in a definite way.
Hence Structured ppl. a.
1873. Spencer, in Contemp. Rev., XXII. 328. The changes by which this structureless mass becomes a structured mass.
