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weighed, ppl. a.|weɪd|
[f. weigh v.1 + -ed.]
1. That has had its weight ascertained by the scales.
c1440Promp. Parv. 520/1 Weyd, or wowon, ponderatus, libratus. 1669[see squash n.2 1]. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiv. (1842) 600 Then ascertain whether the weighed portions equipoise each other. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. 765 A weighed quantity of the solid..is carefully introduced. 1886Jago Chem. Wheat etc. 407 Counterpoised and Weighed Filters.
2. Of judgement, opinion, etc.: Considered, balanced. † Of a person: Having a balanced and steady judgement. Cf. well-weighed.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 349 Secretary Walsingham, and Secretary Cecil, a pair of the best weighed statesmen this island hath bred. 1647–8Sir C. Cotterell Davila's Hist. Fr. (1678) 18 The Admiral, with more weighed Counsel, opposed the Princes opinion. 1675Dryden Aurengz. i. i. (1676) 4 Aureng-Zebe, by no strong passion sway'd, Except his Love, more temp'rate is, and weigh'd. 1689T. R. View Govt. Europe 67 Our English Ancestors have always been of a more steady principle, more wise, and more weigh'd, than to dance after their Politicks. 1909Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 3/1 The weighed judgments of the staid ‘councillor’.
3. With down: Depressed, downcast.
1822Byron Werner i. i. 509 'Tis past fatigue which gives my weigh'd-down spirit An outward show of thought. 1935S. Spender in London Mercury May 8 The tall girl with her weighed-down head. |