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calmed, ppl. a.
(kɑːmd, poet. ˈkɑːmɪd)
[f. calm v. + -ed.]
Made calm, reduced to calmness.
1590Greene Arcad. (1616) 3 The Dolphines..fetcht their carreers on the calmed waues. 1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 669 The calm'd ocean. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iii. (1877) 86 A softened, calmed religious twilight.
†b. Detained by a calm, becalmed. Obs.
1634in Ld. Campbell Chancellors (1857) III. lxiii. 251 For a more speedy passage of calmed ships. |