polishedadj.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 3 Kings vi. 36 He bildide þe porche with inne forth with þre ordres of pulscht [v.r. polshid] stones.

a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 471 A plate of pulsched gold.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 684 (MED) Þoruȝ þe toun..Of pulsched marbil vp-on strong pilleris Deuised wern..Fresche alures.

a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 347 in Poems (1981) 122 Ane poleist glas.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bvi^v Throw platis of polist steill.

1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) Pref. sig. ☛.1 That their sonnes..may grow vp as the younge plantes, and that their doughters maye be as the polyshed corners of the temple.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 154 O polisht perturbation! golden care! View more context for this quotation

1670 T. Case Mt. Pisgah i. 8 These early Impressions are polished Jewels, which he hath, of special grace laid up.

1736 T. Gray Let. 8 May in Corr. T. Gray & W. Mason (1853) 3 In dust the polish'd ball he roll'd.

1746 G. Adams Micrographia Illustrata xvii. 69 Mr. Leeuwenhoek counted upwards of 200 Eggs of a blackish Colour and smooth, like polished Glass.

1815 M. Capel Let. 12 June (1955) ii. 106 The Floors..are beautifully inlaid with different woods, & looking like Polished Marble.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xv. 100 The road..lay right over the polished rocks.

1955 Times 29 June 3/5 Mr. Justice Haver in the Queen's Bench Division declared 313 polished diamonds..to have been forfeited.

1997 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Feb. 13/1 Made of quality polished stainless steel with a thermocore base to ensure even heat distribution.

1649 B. Gerbier 1st Lect. Cosmogr. 12 That if it bee asked from whence it proceeded, its from the reflection of the light which is incountred in the shadow of the Earth: for as the Moon is a polished body, [etc.].

1825 Lancet 26 Nov. 309/1 The polished mucous surface glides without the smallest friction over the equally polished globe.

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 76/2 Acer lævigatum, the polished maple.

1901 E. Step Shell Life viii. 125 The Polished Wedge-shell (D[onax] politus) may be at once distinguished from the preceding by the absence of the milling along the inner margins of the valves.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs ii. 35 The cowries (Cypraeacea) are not burrowers, but they have a rounded and sometimes smoothly polished shell, covered in life by integument.

2002 Times (Nexis) 21 Sept. (Weekend section) 8 There are pale, twisted seed pods from Clitoria ternatea, a nutmeg still inside its polished shell, [etc.].

1840 Southern Cabinet Dec. 739 As regards the quality of the polished rice when compared with that prepared by the pestle, I arrived at the conclusions, 1st. That the polisher cleaned the rice more effectively than the pestle [etc.].

1897 Idaho Daily Statesman 8 May 2/2 Germany consumes annually 120,000 tons of polished rice.

1902 Times 6 Mar. 5/3 In the Tariff Bill Committee the duty on polished rice was raised from four to six marks per 100 kilos.

1948 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. ii. 400 The natural rice has rather more flavour and food value than polished rice.

1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ii. vii. 69/2 Beri-beri is caused by a lack of thiamine in diets based on refined cereals (e.g. polished rice) and lacking in meat.