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verb

Article v. t. (past & past part. articled; pres. part. articling)

To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars. "If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable."

To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles. "He shall be articled against in the high court of admiralty."

To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

Article v. i. To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant. (R.) "Then he articled with her that he should go away when he pleased."

adjective

Articled adj. Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.

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Etymology of 'Articled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Articled" Quotes from Famous Books

... mentioned by Irving claims a little more attention. John Knill, born at Callington in 1733, after being articled to a Penzance solicitor, became collector of Customs at St. Ives, and in 1767 was chosen mayor. A few years later Government sent him to Jamaica to inspect the ports; he was private secretary to ...

— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon

... away, or had served his master so well that the latter willingly remitted the three years' articles of apprenticeship, Cook now followed his destiny to the sea. According to the world's standards, the change seemed progress backward. He was articled to a ship-owner of Whitby as a common seaman on a coaler sailing between Newcastle and London. One can see such coalers any day—black as smut, grimed from prow to stern, with workmen almost black shovelling coal or hoisting ...

— Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward • Agnes C. Laut

... was articled to my worthy uncle, the Clerk of the Peace, and, had I possessed my present experience, should have known that it was a diplomatic move of the most profound policy to enable me, if anything happened to him, to succeed to ...

— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton

... kindly to me at supper, and said that he had arranged with Mr. Wood that I should read with him for two hours every evening, in preparation for my future life as an articled clerk, my heart was softened. I thanked him gratefully, and resolved for my own part to follow what seemed to be the plain path of duty, though it led to Uncle Henry's office, and ...

— We and the World, Part I - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... ventured afterwards to insult the rigour of the public law by practising these iniquities. But at a later period long impunity nourished atrocious crimes; and licentiousness increased to such a pitch that a certain senator followed the example of Hilarinus, and was convicted of having almost articled by a regular contract one of his slaves to a teacher of the black art, to be instructed in his impious mysteries, though he escaped punishment by an enormous bribe, as common ...

— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus

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