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/mˈaɪndəd/ /mˈaɪndɪd/ Listen

verb

Mind v. t. (past & past part. minded; pres. part. minding)

To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note. "Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate." "My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play."

To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business. "Bidding him be a good child, and mind his book."

To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.

To have in mind; to purpose. "I mind to tell him plainly what I think."

To put in mind; to remind. (Archaic) "He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things." "I do thee wrong to mind thee of it."

Never mind, do not regard it; it is of no consequence; no matter.

Synonyms: To notice; mark; regard; obey. See Attend.

Mind v. i. To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.

adjective

Minded adj. Disposed; inclined; having a mind. "Joseph... was minded to put her away privily." "If men were minded to live virtuously." Note: Minded is much used in composition; as, high-minded, feeble-minded, bloody-minded, sober-minded, double-minded.

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Etymology of 'Minded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Minded" Quotes from Famous Books

... foot. And many a kick did the box—(but it was a mischievous box, as we shall see, and deserved all it got)—many a kick did it receive. But, certain it is, if it had not been for the box, our active-minded little Pandora would not have known half so well how to spend her ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... of the men or women who, for whatever reason, incurred the wrath of Synge. He was never noisy or explosive, like a dog whose barks are discounted, to whom one soon ceases to pay any attention; we all know the futile and petty irascibility of the shallow-minded. Synge was like a mastiff who bites without warning. Irony was the common chord in his composition. He studied life and hated death; hated the gossip of the world, which seemed to him the gabble of fools. Physically he was a sick man, and felt his tether. He thought it frightful that he should ...

— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps

... was sorry to see him, for I was in no humour for his company; but he had heard all about it from Miss Williams, and had come to stop. Only then did I fully realise how much of the kindly, delicate-minded gentleman remained behind that veil of profanity and obscenity which he so often held ...

— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro

... "Nay, my son Gregor," said he, "thou hast tripped, even now, upon thy text. For David said only, 'I take no pleasure in the legs of a man.' And so say I, for I am not minded to spare thy legs or mine, until we come farther on our way, and do what must be done this night. Draw the belt tighter, my son, and hew me out this tree that is fallen across the road, for our campground is ...

— The First Christmas Tree - A Story of the Forest • Henry Van Dyke

... Richmond had met no one so interesting and amusing as this frank-minded young woman from America. "Young woman" was how he thought of her; she didn't correspond to anything so prim and restrained and extensively reserved and withheld as a "young lady "; and though he judged her no older than five and twenty, the word "girl" with its associations ...

— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells

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