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slackened, ppl. a.|ˈslæk(ə)nd|
[f. prec.]
1. Rendered less tense or firm.
c1640Waller Chloris Poems (1711) 146 Wind up the slacken'd Strings of thy Lute. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 522 Fear seiz'd his slacken'd limbs and beating heart. 1762Foote Orator i. Wks. 1799 I. 204 He reanimates their slackened nerves with the mystic picture of an apple-tree. 1801Southey Thalaba iii. xxiii, The slacken'd bow, the quiver, the long lance. 1869Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. P 16, In the slackened state of the key.
2. Abated, mitigated; relaxed.
1736Gray Statius i. 51 The circle sped; It towers to cut the clouds;..Anon, with slacken'd rage comes quiv'ring down. 1791F. Burney Diary 20 Aug., 'Tis best, therefore, to think of these matters till they occur with slackened emotion. 1833Arnott Physics II. 83 During the moment of slackened combustion. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair ix, He began to reform the slackened discipline of the hall. |