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leisured, a.|ˈlɛʒ(jʊ)əd|
[f. leisure n. + -ed2.]
1. Of time, action: Characterized or accompanied by leisure.
1631Heywood 2nd Pt. Faire Maid of W. Ded., Wks. 1874 II. 2 Please you at any of your more leisured hours to vouchsafe the perusal of these slight papers. 1647Boyle Let. to Hartlib 8 Apr., Wks. 1772 I. Life 39 The particulars..do not only ask a profound knowledge..but likewise a leisured and a great multiplicity of reading. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 56 A leisured and level life, free from excitement, hurry and physical exertion or fatigue.
2. Of persons: Having ample leisure, esp. in the leisured class(es.
1794Gentl. Mag. II. 1132 Foliage op'ning to the day Courts the leisur'd mortal's stray. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. ii. ii. §4 (1876) 140 The services which a nation having leisured classes is entitled to expect from them. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 347 The leisured student. 1891A. Caldecott Eng. Coloniz. 101 The absorption of energy in the making of fortunes has prevented the formation of any such leisured class. 1923W. S. Maugham Our Betters II. 85 American wealth has reached a pitch where it was bound to give rise to a leisured class. 1926B. Webb My Apprenticeship i. 9 The rulers of the country..ought in the main to be drawn from a leisured class. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 43 Obviously he's not one of the leisured classes. 1949A. Wilson Wrong Set 111 The many leisured-class hypotheses by which Mr. Cockshott obviously lived. 1960M. Bradbury Phogey! iii. 105 The leisured classes demonstrated their leisure by indulgence in useless pursuits (personal relationships, scholarship, etc.). |