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verb

Made v. Imp. & p. p. of Make.

adjective

Made adj.

Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar.

Having the sheets and blankets set in order; of a bed; as, is the bed made?.

Successful or assured of success; as, a self-made man. "Now I am a made man forever."

Made up.

(a)

Complete; perfect. "A made up villain."

(b)

Falsely devised; fabricated; as, a made up story.

(c)

Artificial; as, a made up figure or complexion.

noun

Made n. (Zool.) See Mad, n.

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Etymology of 'Made'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Made" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Not guilty"; and though the president was very courteous to me, and gave me every assurance that I might expect favorable action on my application, as a matter of fact and of record the recommendation made to the Attorney-General was that my application be denied, and denied it accordingly was. But in other cases nearly contemporary with mine, which came to my knowledge, the reply of "not guilty" called forth the rejoinder ...

— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne

... means easy to hit on a sign that would show him at a glance that her mind was made up; that, however she may have wavered in her purpose yesterday, her resolve was fixed to-day. She stood long and thought of many plans, but ...

— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine

... at the arsenal in time of peace is common-place enough, except that across the Eastern Branch the towers of the lunatic asylum, perched upon a height, look down baronially; but this trial of murderers has made the ...

— The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth • George Alfred Townsend

... was founded and was carried being such that, for mere shame, foreign countries could hardly persist in maintaining a traffic which those who had derived the greatest profit from it had on such grounds renounced; though our ministers did not trust to their spontaneous sympathies, but made the abolition of the traffic by our various allies, or those who wished to become so, a constant object of diplomatic negotiations, even purchasing the co-operation of some by important concessions, in one instance by the payment of a large sum of money. The conferences ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

... of it. If they could give them a nearer approach to humanity by clothing them, if they could make them look like men, they would then, perhaps, begin to think like men. What he complained of was, not that they were in a low and miserable condition, but that no effort had been made to rescue them ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

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