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settled, ppl. a.|ˈsɛt(ə)ld|
[f. settle v. + -ed1.]
1. Of mental states, purposes, habits, etc.: Fixed, firmly embraced or implanted; become regular or customary; unchanging, undeviating.
1556Heywood Spider & F. ii. 8 Oh sodayne sorowe, from setled solas. 1568Gismond of Salerne iv. iii. 17 There stayed in me so settled trust, that thy chast life..wold not haue yelded to vnlawfull lust. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 12 But I judge the beste, for in dobtes I will not resolue with a settled iudgemente. a1617Hieron Penance for Sin xv. Wks. 1628 I. 235 A settled bent of the soule, in nothing to sinne against God. 1693Norris Pract. Disc. Div. Subj. (1722) IV. 17 For alas what is a Mode or Fashion, but only a continued and settled Practice of a great Many? 1712Addison Spect. No. 349 ⁋7 He died under a fixed and settled Hope of Immortality. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 778 Where..His virtuous toil may terminate at last In settled habit and decided taste. 1796Southey Mary, Maid of the Inn i, Her silence implies The composure of settled distress. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 41 To remain to the end of life destitute of any settled religious opinions. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §5 It was his settled purpose to fling off the yoke of the Baronage.
b. Of the mind, character, etc.: Rendered staid, steadfast, or sober.
1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 203 Pacience thy setled minde dothe guide and stere. 1604Shakes. Ham. (Qo. 2) iv. vii. 81 For youth no lesse becomes The light and carelesse liuing that it weares Then setled age, his sables, and his weedes. 1611― Wint. T. v. iii. 72 No setled Sences of the World can match The pleasure of that madnesse. 1650H. More Observ. in Enthus. Tri. (1656) 96 What you have delivered..concerning the Soul of man..might become a man of a more settled brain than Anthroposophus. 1670Dryden Tyr. Love ii. i. 16 Nor pride nor frenzy, but a setled mind. 1821Scott Kenilw. xli, Wayland, now a man of settled character.
c. Of the countenance or bearing: Indicating a settled purpose, mind, character, etc.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 111 With a setled countenance, not accusing any kind of inwarde motion. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 90 This outward sainted Deputie, Whose setled visage, and deliberate word Nips youth i'th head. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 225 With..a graue countenance, a settled gate, and words well plaste. 1680Otway Orphan ii. iv, In your settled Face And clouded Brow methinks I see my Fate. 1825Scott Betrothed xv, Rose saw her cheek assume a paler but more settled hue, instead of the angry hectic which had coloured it. 1839G. Darley Nepenthe ii. 31 Antiquity, thou Titan-born! That..look'st with dim but settled eye O'er thy deep lap.
2. Of a matter in dispute, an arrangement, regulation, etc.: Determined, decided, enacted or agreed upon. Of a truth, a principle: Established, placed beyond dispute.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 82, I finde it now for a setled truth, which earst I accompted for a vaine talke, that the purple dye will neuer staine [etc.]. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 11 It is then expedient that we should not wander, but rather follow a settled short way. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 325 Those who are entertain'd into his Service have a setled pay at all times. 1666Stillingfl. Serm. (1673) 21 That there be no complaining..in the Churches for want of a settled maintenance. 1749–50Johnson Rambler No. 1 ⁋1 The settled and regular forms of salutation which necessity has introduced into all languages. 1803Vesey's Chanc. Cases (1827) XI. 537, I cannot upon any doubt of mine..shake what is the settled law upon the subject. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last iv. §60, I wish this were a settled question in London markets. 1870Morris Earthly Par. iii. 386 We look to have from him a settled day When we must change our faith or bide the worst.
b. Phr. a settled thing (or settled matter), used predicatively (often = something about which there is considered to be no room for doubt or question).
1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxi, ‘I thought’, said he,..‘that was a settled matter—they are continually together’. 1839Thackeray Stubb's Cal. Apr. (1841) 305 She was told to call me her little husband; and she did; and it was considered a settled thing from that day. 1845Disraeli Sybil v. vii, ‘Is it a settled thing between Lady Joan and Mr. Mountchesney?’ ‘Not the slightest foundation... She is not in a hurry to marry’. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Cranford vii, Still, it was not at all a settled thing that Mrs. Fitz-Adam was to be visited. 1864E. Yates Broken to Harness I. xv. 272, The twilight had been a settled thing for at least an hour. 1868H. Blackburn Artists & Arabs i. 7 At Marseilles, where..it is an understood and settled thing that every Englishman is on his way, to or from Italy or India.
3. Of affairs, an institution, or the like: Established on a permanent footing and under fixed conditions or regulations.
1648–9Eikon Bas. xvii. 149 Since the first Age,..not one Example can bee produced of anie settled Church, wherein were manie Ministers and Congregations, which had not som Bishop above them. 1650T. Hubbert Pill Formality 152 Man..in his most settled estate is altogether vanity. 1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 7 Such a liberty therefore cannot be granted in a setled Church. 1724De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 259 The parliament had no settled army. 1765Johnson Shaks. Wks. (1773) I. Pref. D 8, Grammatical and settled languages. 1794Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 254 Settled governments have not the bold resources of new experimental systems. 1842Tennyson ‘You ask me, why’ iii, A land of settled government. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 119 A settled age can imperfectly comprehend an age of revolution. 1883P. H. Hunter Story Daniel i. 8 At such time as this..when the settled order of things was breaking up.
4. Fixed in place or position; having a fixed abode.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. v. 106 But now thy Vnckle is remouing hence, As Princes doe their Courts, when they are cloy'd With long continuance in a settled place. 1611Bible 1 Kings viii. 13, I haue surely built thee an house to dwel in, a setled place for thee to abide in for euer. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. i. xvii, The setled rock seem'd from his seat remove. 1645Direct. Lords & Comm. for Elect. Ruling-Elders 2 In the place where his most setled dwelling and imployment doth lie. a1700Evelyn Diary 9 Mar. 1652, No more intending to go out of England, but endeavour a settl'd life, either in this or some other place. 1735Johnson Lobo's Abyssinia Descr. i. 47 They..live like the Arabs, without any settled Habitation. 1830M. T. Sadler Law Popul. i. ix. 146 Since mankind have become more settled and numerous. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. x. 191 Becoming a settled..instead of a nomadic people.
b. Of an ailment: Fixed in the system.
1811Lady Morgan Mem. (1862) I. 479 A bad cold and a settled cough.
5. Of weather of a specified character: Established and maintaining itself without change or break (cf. set a. 6 c). Of wind: Blowing continuously in one direction.
1628Digby Voy. Mediterr. (1868) 8 The current did then sett strongly out of the straightes, which I vnderstand is vsuall after settled Leuant windes. 1710Loyal Mourner 9 The smiling Aspect of Earth, Sea, and Air, All for a lasting Calm, and Settled Fair. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 72 Now it began to be settled fair Weather. 1737[S. Berington] G. de Lucca's Mem. (1738) 143 It was the most settled and downright Rain (as the Saying is) that ever I saw. 1798S. Rogers To Friend on Marr. Poems (1812) 162 And settled sunshine on her soul descend! 1818Byron Juan i. cxcvi, As roll the waves before the settled wind. 1837Southey Poems IV. Pref., Raising my spirits to the degree of settled fair. 1870L'Estrange Life Miss Mitford I. v. 136 What is a thunder shower..to settled, set-in, bad weather?
b. Of weather (without other specification): Calm and fine.
1717in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics 1715 (1889) 156 Such brave settled weather as't has been ever since you left us. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Cucumis, Towards the latter End of May, when the Weather appears settled and warm. 1830T. Moore in Lady Morgan's Mem. (1862) II. 312, I am preparing to take advantage of the very first appearance of more settled weather.
†6. Of a liquid: Not flowing, stagnant, coagulated. Also of wine: That has ‘settled on the lees’.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 112 The warming of the Blood: which before (cold, and setled) left the Liuer white, and pale. 1604Drayton Moyses ii. 36 The fleet hurrying flood..As a black lake or setled marish stood At th'extensure of the Hebrewes wand. 1659Howell Vocab. Arts & Sci. xviii, Settled wine; vin riposato; vin rassis. 1681Crowne Hen. VI, iv. 58 His Face is black and swell'd with settled Blood.
7. That has sunk down or subsided. Of earth: Compacted, consolidated.
1642Hexham Princ. Art Milit. ii. (ed. 2) 48 The stopping which is made newly is not so firme as the old setled Earth, which hath lain a long time in it. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Bridge 80 The further Loading of the settled Pier would be dangerous.
8. Of a person: Established in life, esp. by marriage; brought into a regular way of life.
a1706Evelyn Mrs. Godolphin (1888) 128 Wee will looke vpon this Lady now, as a setled Woman, and in the Armes of that excellent Person the most worthy to possess her. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scandal ii. iii. Plays (1902) 169 Mercy on me—He's greatly altered—and seems to have a settled married look. 1884‘C. E. Craddock’ (Miss Murfree) In Tennessee Mts. 83 A settled married man, a-behavin' no better 'n them fool boys.
b. Established in an office or living; spec. of Presbyterian ministers (cf. settle v. 27 b).
1773Ann. Reg. 148 Mrs. Greeve was to have procured the place of a settled-tidesman for Mr. John Smith. 1785Gentl. Mag. LXIV. ii. 391 The settled Relief minister at Irvine. a1817T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. (1823) IV. 397 In the year 1798 there were..two hundred and forty-two ministers; of whom thirty-three were without any charge; or, in the language of New-England, were not settled ministers.
9. Of an estate or property: Secured to a person by a legal act or agreement; held by a tenant for life under conditions defined by the deed.
1856Act 19 & 20 Vict. c. 120 (title), An Act to facilitate Leases and Sales of Settled Estates. Ibid. §1 The Term ‘Settled Estates’..shall signify all Hereditaments..and all Estates..which are the Subject of a Settlement. 1882Act 45 & 46 Vict. c. 38 (title), An Act for facilitating Sales, Leases, and other dispositions of Settled Land. 1889Wharton's Law Lex. (ed. 8), Settled land, land limited by way of succession, to a person other than the person for the time being entitled to the beneficial enjoyment thereof.
10. Of a country: Peopled with new-comers; colonized. Also settled-up.
1831Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 12 In the settled part of it, the land is divided into smaller farms. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's Roost, etc. R. Ringwood (1855) 196, I had relatives in Lexington, and other settled places. 1897B. Harraden Hilda Strafford 146 She had seen some of those settled-up parts.
11. Of soap: Refined by fusing in water or weak lye.
1898G. H. Hurst Soaps vii. 228 Three chief varieties of hard soap..known as ‘curd’, ‘fitted’, or, in America, ‘settled’, and ‘run’ soaps. 1906L. L. Lamborn Manuf. Soap ix. 328 Settled Rosined Soap. |