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meas⋅ured

  [mezh-erd]
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–adjective
1. ascertained or apportioned by measure: The race was over the course of a measured mile.
2. accurately regulated or proportioned.
3. regular or uniform, as in movement; rhythmical: to walk with measured strides.
4. deliberate and restrained; careful; carefully weighed or considered: measured language; measured terms.
5. in the form of meter or verse; metrical.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see measure, -ed 2

Related forms:
meas⋅ured⋅ly, adverb
meas⋅ured⋅ness, noun
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meas·ured   (mězh'ərd)   
adj.  
  1. Determined by measurement: The measured distance was less than a mile.
  2. Careful; restrained: spoke in measured words.
  3. Calculated; deliberate: with measured irony.
  4. Regular in rhythm and number: "A clock struck slowly in the house with a measured, solemn chime" (Thomas Wolfe).
  5. Slow and stately.
  6. Written in meter.
  7. Music Mensural.
meas'ured·ly adv., meas'ured·ness n.
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