mailed

[meyld]

adjective

1. clad or armed with mail.

   a mailed knight.

Other Word Forms

• unmailed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mailed¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; mail ², -ed ³

Example Sentences

“For I only just mailed my letter to Miss Mortimer this morning, and look: The reply has already come.”

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Friendly locals welcomed us, including the retiree in Hebron, N.D., who brought the gift of one of the town’s famous bricks; we accepted it and mailed it home.

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Together, they drafted a letter to Rudolf Abel and mailed it to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.

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“I think mailing ballots to every voter is also helpful; it used to be that you had to request a ballot to be mailed to you.”

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This isn’t much of a burden, but it will stop ballots from being mailed to people who might have moved away or no longer be compos mentis.

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