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heated, ppl. a.|ˈhiːtɪd| [f. heat v. + -ed1.] 1. a. Made hot; having the temperature raised.
1617Moryson Itin. iii. 97 A long Table furnished with these often heated meats. 1697Dryden æneid ix. 799 The heated lead half melted as it flew. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 484/1 These tubes..increase considerably the heated surface in contact with the water. 1858Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Phil. 182 A balloon..containing 23000 cubic feet of heated air. 1881Print. Trades Jrnl. XXXI. 38 Heated bearings in machinery may be relieved..by the use of graphite as a lubricator. b. heated term, the hot season of the year. U.S.
1855N.Y. Herald 26 Dec. 3/4 Our ‘heated terms’ are over, and we now begin to look out for the approach of the ‘northers’. 1867Congress. Globe 5 July 487/1, I think we could go on now during the heated term..better than..during the cold season. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West 793 The average of the ‘heated term’, one day with another, is there recorded at eighty-four degrees. 1949Chicago Tribune 11 Sept. 43/5 What a month ago appeared to be a trivial item of conversation during the heated term has become a raging topic among scientists. 2. Inflamed, excited (physically or mentally); fevered, impassioned, angry.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. i. 124 But whether 'twas the coldnesse of the King..That robb'd my Soldiers of their heated Spleene. 1751Jortin Serm. (1771) I. i. 1 When the heated imagination is let loose. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 23 Morning cools my heated brain. 1886Manch. Exam. 28 Sept. 5/3 These heated phrases..are the outcome of a bitter disappointment. Hence ˈheatedly adv., in a heated manner, with warmth of temper.
1862H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon II. 90 Mrs. Courteney, (said Carr, rather heatedly,) do you not place enough confidence in me to say candidly what this..is? 1885Manch. Exam. 12 Sept. 5/2 The decision..was heatedly discussed. |