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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
minded
adjective
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▪ A better idea is to forget such racially minded solutions altogether.
▪ Edward Heath was the most managerially minded prime minister since Attlee.
▪ From his innovations have come many developments opening the way for similar independently minded choreographers.
▪ Piggy always kept clear minded and never got confused like Ralph did.
▪ She says that some people are narrow minded.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minded

Minded \Mind"ed\, a. Disposed; inclined; having a mind.

Joseph . . . was minded to put her away privily.
--Matt. i. 19.

If men were minded to live virtuously.
--Tillotson.

Note: Minded is much used in composition; as, high-minded, feeble-minded, bloody-minded, sober-minded, double-minded.

Minded

Mind \Mind\ (m[imac]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minded; p. pr. & vb. n. Minding.] [AS. myndian, gemynd[=i]an to remember. See Mind, n.]

  1. 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.''
    --Rom. xii. 16.

    My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
    --Shak.

  2. 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.
    --Addison.

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

  4. To have in mind; to purpose.
    --Beaconsfield.

    I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
    --Shak.

  5. To put in mind; to remind. [Archaic]
    --M. Arnold.

    He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
    --Fuller.

    I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.
    --Shak.

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

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
minded

c.1500, "having a mind" (to do); "having a mind" (of a certain type), from mind (n.).

Wiktionary
minded
  1. 1 Having a mind (inclination) for something or a certain way of thinking about things. 2 Having a preference for doing something; having a likelihood, or disposition to carry out an act. v

  2. (en-past of: mind)

WordNet
minded
  1. adj. (used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified; "civic-minded"; "career-minded"

  2. (used in combination) being of a specified kind of inclination or disposition; "serious-minded"; "fair-minded"

  3. (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward; "he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; "I am not minded to answer any questions" [syn: apt(p), disposed(p), given(p), minded(p), tending(p)]

Usage examples of "minded".

Howbeit he had looked on the King closely and wisely, and deemed that he was both cruel and guileful, so that he rejoiced that he had spoken naught of Ursula, and he was minded to keep her within gates all the while they abode at Cheaping-Knowe.

Juss, enforcing his half frozen limbs to resume the ascent, beheld a sight of woe too terrible for the eye: a young man, helmed and graithed in dark iron, a black-a-moor with goggle-eyes and white teeth agrin, who held by the neck a fair young lady kneeling on her knees and clasping his as in supplication, and he most bloodily brandishing aloft his spear of six foot of length as minded to reave her of her life.

Thus if God is going to be fair about the matter, it would seem that only impenitent Christians, along with some apocalyptically minded Jews, can have been consigned to such a hell.

Choose then between the vengeance of Atene and her love, since I am not minded to be mocked in my own land as a wanton who sought a stranger and was--refused.

I was minded to wait and receive thee in the Sanctuary, yet when I learned that at length both of you had escaped Atene and drew near, I could restrain myself no more, but came forth thus hideously disguised.

I am minded of the wanderings of Matsuo Basho, who said that all of us are travelers every minute of our lives.

He ate blackberries along the hedges, minded the geese with a long switch, went haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged the beadle to let him toll the bells, that he might hang all his weight on the long rope and feel himself borne upward by it in its swing.

The man he was minded to bespeak was by no means completely trustworthy, but neither was he a friend to the Sovereign of Blenholme.

No, Birken replied, he had no objection to the implement either before or after the cutting, what he minded was the smooth and slippery manner.

Ebor, the son of Bordis, never minded being posted to night duty on the walls, wherever the court happened to be.

I was minded to hit him to teach him manners, but Chullunder Ghose came to his rescue, having watched with deliberate interest, as he sat with his shoes off, chafing tired feet.

Aldus would not have minded so much the filching of the text, but when the unscrupulous printers ventured to copy his types and his original style of typography, and sold their counterfeit copies as the product of the Aldine Press, his indignation knew no bounds.

I was minded to have done with him, and resolved to let him know through his mistress that I would not be his reference, but I could not find an opportunity that day.

Then he noticed that it had a tarnished, gold-plated collar around its neck, on which was the inscription: Neem, the dalf of Thaine Evidently, thought Jerry, this beast was half minded to be friendly.

I escaped thence, and am minded for the Burg, if perchance I may be deemed there a man good enough to ride in their host, whereby I might avenge me somewhat on them that have undone me: some of whom meseemeth must have put in thy mouth that word against the Burg.