1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xix. 154 An old setled Person, of a most posed, stayed and grave Behaviour [Fr. vestu comme personaige vieulx, & de sens rassis].

1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 181 Whether through poz'd conviction, or disdain, They guarded silence.

1851 H. F. Gould Youth's Coronal 166 He wheeled on his flapping wings, till, ‘bump!’ His head went, hard on the farm-yard pump. Then, stunned and posed, as he met the ground, A stir and a shout in the yard went round.

1882 N. F. Davin Album Verses & Other Poems 22 I began to scratch my head, Like some posed and puzzled varmint.

1831 T. Hood in Forget me Not 119 Oh, for some happy hit! to throw The gazer in a trance: But posé là—there I am posed, As people say in France.

1887 H. A. Kelly in Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. 20 34 The term ‘Hysterorrhaphy’ is used to define the suspension by suture of a viciously posed uterus.

1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 137 Now this is not a ‘posed’ subject, but taken in an actual game, which makes it so much the more interesting.

1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane i. iv. 43 There was also a nun-like acquiescence in her bearing, prim for her thirty-three years, and possibly a trifle posed.

1964 S. Hall & P. Whannel Pop. Arts ix. 225 In television..we could include..the use of the brief survey of popular opinion on any topic by means of the posed question (the so-called ‘vox pop’).

1976 Oxf. Compan. Film 66/1 Frame stills..convey the true feeling of a film more exactly than can a posed production still.

2002 Independent 14 June 14/2 An additional clause requests that no more than 30 posed photographs must be taken with him.