measuredadj.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 335/1 Mesuryd wythe mesure, mensuratus.

1588 E. Spenser Virgils Gnat 652 He gins to fashion forth a place; And squaring it in compasse well beseene, There plotteth out a tombe by measured space.

1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 11 The breaking of the Measur'd Notes.

1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 553 Scarce the third Glass of measur'd Hours was run.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 424 The rest..he disposes neat At measured distances.

1804 Sydney Gaz. 3 June 4 Every person holding the late measured Farms..are [sic] required to reside on them immediately.

1822 J. Galt Provost xxxviii. 278 Two measured glasses of whisky in an old doctor's bottle.

1926 Trade Marks Jrnl. 22 Sept. 2158 An apparatus..for delivering a measured quantity of Spirits or other Liquids.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 782/2 An x-ray color..is computed from the ratio of the measured fluxes in two energy ranges.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. K.i Prospectiue, which by force of measured lines, coulours, lightes and shadowes discouer unto you..in the outward sight of an upright wal the plainnesse & farnesse.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. A3^v This which I shall say is no amplification at all, but a positiue and measured truth. View more context for this quotation

a1771 T. Gray Ess. I in W. Mason Mem. Life & Writings (1775) 195 Here measur'd laws and philosophic ease Fix, and improve the polish'd arts of peace.

1901 J. Watson Life of Master xxi. 198 For their toil and work they will receive a measured wage.

a1634 A. Gardyne Theatre Scotish Worthies (1878) 84 Who for there countrie..doe fight, Bot limitat and measur'd glorie gains.

1653 F. Rous Mysticall Marriage 328 As much as a poor measured creature may resemble that which is unmeasurable.

a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) 2328 A Priores..Aw to be mesured euermair To bind non als bot þai may bere.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton Fvij^v To be temperate and mesured in alle thynges.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 282 Tobe wele mesurit jn..eting and drinking.

1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 15 Mishaps..issuing from their ill measured Counsell.

1653 G. Wither Dark Lantern 7 Though I dresse The mind, and matter, of my messages, In measur'd words,..yet, now and then, I blunder out, what worldly prudent men Count madnesse.

1807 W. Wordsworth Resolution & Independence in Poems I. 95 Choice word, and measured phrase.

1847–54 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) In no measured terms.

1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. iii. 140 Men..tell the same story in more measured language.

1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone III. viii. x. 176 In the debate, said Mr. Gladstone, Lord Hartington restated with measured force the position of the government.

1968 R. Gittings John Keats (1971) ii. xiii. 291 The measured, objective tone of these critical pronouncements.

1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus viii. 135 Kinsey was a measured man. He wrote in a dry and clinical fashion.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G3^v In ryme or measured verse.

1683 W. Soames tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Art of Poetry ii. 21 Closing the Sence within the measur'd time, 'Tis hard to fit the Reason to the Rhyme.

1704 M. Prior Let. to Boileau Despreaux 50 That we poetic folks, who must restrain Our measur'd sayings in an equal chain.

1799 E. Darwin Bot. Garden (ed. 4) I. iv. 204 Join in sweet cadences the measured words, Or stretch and modulate the trembling cords.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Ess. & Lett. (1840) I. 9 It is necessary..to determine the distinction between measured and unmeasured language.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam v. 5 For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies. View more context for this quotation

1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems Ded. The sweet propriety of measured phrase.

1995 Grand Royal No. 2. 62/2 He..is a master of both freestyle toasting..and measured lyricism.

1604 S. Daniel True Discription Royall Masque sig. B 3^v Whilst worth with honour, make their choise, For measured motion's ordered right: Now let vs likewise giue a voyce, Vnto the touch of our delight.

1645 J. Milton Arcades in Poems 55 And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 196 They all advance, And form to measur'd airs the mazy dance.

1814 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II (ed. 7) ii. lxxx. 109 Music..timely echo'd back the measur'd oar.

1855 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 253 I heard a measured tread; and then..advanced on me eight soldiers.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xliii. 49 It [sc. winter] came on in stealthy and measured glides, like the moves of a chess-player.

1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far iv. vii. 291 At first he thought it was ringing to announce the approach of Horrocks' tanks, but the sound was not measured and consistent.

1983 A. Mason Illusionist i. 37 No longer wild, but measured, even stately, a tread of ageless dignity, a tread, his blood informed him, of sorrow.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 180 Franco [in his Ars Cantus Mensurabilis]..only intends to treat of Measured Music, of which, he piously observes, plain-chant has the precedence.

1878 Catholic World Dec. 414/1 Recitative singing..is as far superior to measured music as an idea immediately represented is to one that is expressed by a series of complicated means.

1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 415 Musica Mensurata or Cantus Mensurabilis. (Measured Music).

1901 H. E. Wooldridge Oxf. Hist. Music I. vi. (heading) Discant or Measured Music. The Measured Notation and its Relation to Fixed Rhythms.

1960 Speculum 35 193 Garlandia set up a system of classification based upon the use of rhythm and the means of performance. First of all came plainchant,..Then came measured music, both vocal and instrumental, characterized by the use of the six rhythmic modes and by polyphony.

1991 Speculum 66 606 Sixty year ago, Heinrich Sowa published a transcription of an anonymous treatise on the measured music of Notre Dame.