[f. TEND v.1 + -ED1.] Attended to, looked after, cared for.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 22. Mark how spring Our tended Plants.
1866. Neale, Sequences & Hymns, 82. Year by year, the steeple-music O’er the tended graves shall pour.
1926. Elizabeth Robins, The Secret that Was Kept, xii. 164. She knew how absurd it was—this safe and happy sense of the tended child that came back to her across the years.
