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smoothed, ppl. a.|smuːðd|
[f. smooth v.]
1. Rendered specious or plausible. rare.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 101 Nor he that files his smoothed speeche. 1575Gascoigne Weedes Wks. (1587) 152 Their smoothed toongues are lined all with guile.
2. a. Made smooth, even, placid; unruffled, etc.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. i. 124 The Duke Hath banisht moodie discontented fury, As by his smoothed Browes it doth appeare. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Perpins, Stones made iust as thicke as a wall, & shewing their smoothed ends on either side thereof. 1667Milton P.L. i. 772 They..on the smoothed Plank..expatiate. 1713Young Last Day ii. 368 How the smooth'd spirit into goodness glides! 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. v. i, With cheerfully smoothed countenances. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 168 Masses of smoothed rock rise up out of the whirling water.
b. Of graphs, statistical fluctuations, etc. Cf. smooth v. 1 e, 11 c.
1888Proc. R. Soc. XLV. 140 These smoothed values were obtained by plotting the observed values, after transmuting them as..described into their respective Q units. 1903Science 17 July 91/2 Smoothed rainfall curve for the British Isles. 1933Econometrica I. 240 The points of inflection should be marked in the smoothed curve, to serve as guides to the desired smoothing line. 1962D. F. Shaw Introd. Electronics x. 204 The advantage of this circuit is that the smoothed d.c. output voltage has a high value and the residual ripple voltage may be reduced to a fraction of 1%. 1964K. G. Lockyer Introd. Critical Path. Anal. viii. 78 Clearly it is desirable to try to shift some of the earlier over-load into the later under-load. If this could be completely done, then the load would be said to be ‘smoothed’.
†3. Indulged, pampered. Obs.
1600Breton Pasquil's Fooles Cap lxxiii, Such smoothed Godsons shew in Wisdomes schoole, A Milk-soppe Babie is more halfe a Foole.
Hence † ˈsmoothedness, smoothness. Obs.—1
1573Golding in Baret Alv. To Rdr. ix, The natiue propertie Of brode North speech and Sowthren smoothednesse. |