measuredadj.

Brit.

/ˈmɛʒəd/, U.S.

/ˈmɛʒərd/

Forms: see measure n. and -ed suffix², -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: measure v., -ed suffix¹; measure n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: Partly < measure v. + -ed suffix¹, and partly < measure n. + -ed suffix². Compare Middle French, French mesuré (from late 12th cent. in Old French in sense 1a, c1501 in sense 3). Compare earlier unmeasured adj.

a. That has been measured to determine magnitude or quantity; dealt out by measure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > measured > apportioned by measure

measured1440

meted1887

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.

b. Accurately regulated, correctly proportioned. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > that is in due proportion or proportionate

reasonable1348

proportionala1398

proportionatea1398

proportionable?a1425

attemperate1485

measured1561

measurable1563

answerable1567

symmetral1660

adequal1678

proportionative1949

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.

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.

†c. Limited, finite. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > finiteness > [adjective]

terminable1548

finite1633

measureda1634

terminate1645

boundsome1674

boundly1817

finited1846

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.

†a. Moderated, tempered. Also with modifying adverb, as ill, well. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective]

methelyeOE

i-meteOE

methefulOE

attempre1297

measurablec1330

temprea1340

temperatec1380

temperantc1384

attemperatec1386

attemperelc1386

chastea1400

mannered1435

measureda1450

moderatea1450

well-measuredc1450

attempered1474

modest1548

sober1552

measurely1570

temperable1619

contemperate1647

submissive1753

managed1770

self-contained1838

inexplosive1867

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.

b. Of aspects of language: carefully weighed or calculated; regulated, moderated, restrained. Of a person: using language in a careful, restrained way.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > measured or careful

measured1653

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.

a. Of words, verse, etc.: consisting of measures or metrical groups; written in metre; metrical.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective]

metrical?a1475

measureda1586

numbery1605

metric1637

metred1711

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.

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.

b. gen. Of motion, sound, etc.: having a marked or fixed rhythm; rhythmical; regular in movement. Also figurative.

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the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > rhythmical or measured

measurable1569

rhythmetic1603

measured1604

cadent1613

rhythmicala1620

rhythmic1773

cadenceda1790

rhythmetical1801

rhythmed1832

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [adjective] > regularly

measured1604

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.

c. Music. Having fixed rhythm with notes and rests indicating a definite duration; spec. denoting the style of music succeeding plainsong and marked by polyphonic composition and varied rhythmic mode; = mensurable adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion

mensuralc1570

numerous1589

numeral1610

measurable1614

rhythmica1631

numerose1714

mensurable1776

measured1782

lilting1800

rhythmic-melodic1854

rhythmized1880

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.

Compounds

measured drawing n. a plan or drawing constructed according to accurate measurements of the thing represented (cf. scale drawing n. at scale n.³ Compounds 1c).

ΚΠ

1896 Catal. Preston & Rounds (Providence, Rhode Island) in H. Rogers Mary Dyer of Rhode Island App. 6 These plates are made from measured drawings,..and..constitute in most if not all cases the only exact records for a class of buildings which is destined to disappear.

1934 Biometrika 26 70 A measured drawing was enlarged from a reproduction of the head of the portrait of Henry Ireton.

1993 Archit. Rev. Jan. 70/2 His findings, presented not as full sets of measured drawings but freehand sketches illustrating the principal characteristics of typical buildings, were shown at..an exhibition mounted in Paris.

measured mile n. a distance of one mile carefully measured; (Nautical) such a distance used for determining the speed of a ship.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > specific

measured mile1608

post mile1737

1608 J. Chamberlain Let. 15 July (1939) I. 262 A gentleman wan a great wager for riding five measured miles..twenty times over in lesse than five howres.

1720 J. Ogilby Britannia Depicta (title page) Wherein are..Engraven, All y^e Cities..scituate on or near the Roads, with their respective Distances in Measured and Computed Miles.

1843 Pract. Mechanic June 358/2 The Mermaid then..performed the measured mile at the rate..of above thirteen miles through the water per hour.

1997 BBC Top Gear Mag. Nov. 133/3 Check the accuracy of your odometer..by driving a measured mile beween the marker posts alongside a motorway.

measured work n. piecework.

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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > piecework

task-work1486

piecework1549

setwork1720

job work1780

measured work1834

measure-work1852

great work1855

piece labour1859

1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 54 It is..cheaper to pay a high price for measured work, than to employ them by the day.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	measured
释义	measuredadj. Brit. /ˈmɛʒəd/, U.S. /ˈmɛʒərd/ Forms: see measure n. and -ed suffix², -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: measure v., -ed suffix¹; measure n., -ed suffix². Etymology: Partly < measure v. + -ed suffix¹, and partly < measure n. + -ed suffix². Compare Middle French, French mesuré (from late 12th cent. in Old French in sense 1a, c1501 in sense 3). Compare earlier unmeasured adj. 1. a. That has been measured to determine magnitude or quantity; dealt out by measure. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > measured > apportioned by measure measured1440 meted1887 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. b. Accurately regulated, correctly proportioned. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > that is in due proportion or proportionate reasonable1348 proportionala1398 proportionatea1398 proportionable?a1425 attemperate1485 measured1561 measurable1563 answerable1567 symmetral1660 adequal1678 proportionative1949 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. †c. Limited, finite. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > finiteness > [adjective] terminable1548 finite1633 measureda1634 terminate1645 boundsome1674 boundly1817 finited1846 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. 2. †a. Moderated, tempered. Also with modifying adverb, as ill, well. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective] methelyeOE i-meteOE methefulOE attempre1297 measurablec1330 temprea1340 temperatec1380 temperantc1384 attemperatec1386 attemperelc1386 chastea1400 mannered1435 measureda1450 moderatea1450 well-measuredc1450 attempered1474 modest1548 sober1552 measurely1570 temperable1619 contemperate1647 submissive1753 managed1770 self-contained1838 inexplosive1867 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. b. Of aspects of language: carefully weighed or calculated; regulated, moderated, restrained. Of a person: using language in a careful, restrained way. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > measured or careful measured1653 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. 3. a. Of words, verse, etc.: consisting of measures or metrical groups; written in metre; metrical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] metrical?a1475 measureda1586 numbery1605 metric1637 metred1711 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. b. gen. Of motion, sound, etc.: having a marked or fixed rhythm; rhythmical; regular in movement. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > rhythmical or measured measurable1569 rhythmetic1603 measured1604 cadent1613 rhythmicala1620 rhythmic1773 cadenceda1790 rhythmetical1801 rhythmed1832 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [adjective] > regularly measured1604 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. c. Music. Having fixed rhythm with notes and rests indicating a definite duration; spec. denoting the style of music succeeding plainsong and marked by polyphonic composition and varied rhythmic mode; = mensurable adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion mensuralc1570 numerous1589 numeral1610 measurable1614 rhythmica1631 numerose1714 mensurable1776 measured1782 lilting1800 rhythmic-melodic1854 rhythmized1880 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. Compounds measured drawing n. a plan or drawing constructed according to accurate measurements of the thing represented (cf. scale drawing n. at scale n.³ Compounds 1c). ΚΠ 1896 Catal. Preston & Rounds (Providence, Rhode Island) in H. Rogers Mary Dyer of Rhode Island App. 6 These plates are made from measured drawings,..and..constitute in most if not all cases the only exact records for a class of buildings which is destined to disappear. 1934 Biometrika 26 70 A measured drawing was enlarged from a reproduction of the head of the portrait of Henry Ireton. 1993 Archit. Rev. Jan. 70/2 His findings, presented not as full sets of measured drawings but freehand sketches illustrating the principal characteristics of typical buildings, were shown at..an exhibition mounted in Paris. measured mile n. a distance of one mile carefully measured; (Nautical) such a distance used for determining the speed of a ship. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > specific measured mile1608 post mile1737 1608 J. Chamberlain Let. 15 July (1939) I. 262 A gentleman wan a great wager for riding five measured miles..twenty times over in lesse than five howres. 1720 J. Ogilby Britannia Depicta (title page) Wherein are..Engraven, All y^e Cities..scituate on or near the Roads, with their respective Distances in Measured and Computed Miles. 1843 Pract. Mechanic June 358/2 The Mermaid then..performed the measured mile at the rate..of above thirteen miles through the water per hour. 1997 BBC Top Gear Mag. Nov. 133/3 Check the accuracy of your odometer..by driving a measured mile beween the marker posts alongside a motorway. measured work n. piecework. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > piecework task-work1486 piecework1549 setwork1720 job work1780 measured work1834 measure-work1852 great work1855 piece labour1859 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 54 It is..cheaper to pay a high price for measured work, than to employ them by the day. 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