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contented, ppl. a.|kənˈtɛntɪd|
[f. content v. + -ed1.]
1. Satisfied, desiring nothing more or nothing different; limiting one's desires, willing to put up with something; = content a. 1.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 3 The sayd Moyses not contented with these visyons made supplicacyon to God. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxix, With what I most enjoy contented least. a1661Fuller Worthies, Bucks (1840) I. 200 T. Bickley was rather contented than willing to accept the bishopric of Chichester. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xii. x, I should have been contented with a very little. 1883Froude in Contemp. Rev. XLIV. 1 The greatest men..are those of whom the world has been contented to know the least.
†b. evil contented: dissatisfied, displeased.
1548Hall Chron. 95 b, He was right evil contented..of the said forcyng of the toure.
†2. Willing, ready (to do something); = content a. 3. Obs.
a1525Abp. Warham in M. Burrows Worthies All Souls iv. (1874) 54, I shall be contented to bere the costs and charges thereof myselve. 1549Bk. Com. Prayer, Collect Gd. Friday, This thy family, for the which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lviii. 231 He prayed him to give him leave to ask him something..Whereunto the Grepo made answer, that he was very well contented.
3. Satisfied with one's present condition; not disposed to complain; marked by contentment.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 84 By him that rais'd me to this carefull height, From that contented hap which I inioy'd. 1627Hakewill Apol. iii. vi. §2 Their liberty [is converted] into contented slavery. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xvii. 85 The foresight of..a more contented life thereby. 1725Berkeley Proposal Wks. III. 223 A contented, plain, innocent sort of people. |