1. That has had its weight ascertained by the scales.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 520/1. Weyd, or wowon, ponderatus, libratus.
1669. [see SQUASH sb.2 1].
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xxiv. (1842), 600. Then ascertain whether the weighed portions equipoise each other.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem., Org., 765. A weighed quantity of the solid … is carefully introduced.
1886. Jago, Chem. Wheat, etc., 407, heading. Counterpoised and Weighed Filters.
2. Of judgment, opinion, etc.: Considered, balanced. † Of a person: Having a balanced and steady judgment. Cf. WELL-WEIGHED.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 349. Secretary Walsingham, and Secretary Cecil, a pair of the best weighed statesmen this island hath bred.
1647–8. Cotterell, Davila’s Hist. Fr. (1678), 18. The Admiral, with more weighed Counsel, opposed the Princes opinion.
1675. Dryden, Aurengz., I. i. (1676), 4. Aureng-Zebe, by no strong passion sway’d, Except his Love, more temp’rate is, and weigh’d.
1689. T. R., View Govt. Europe, 67. Our English Ancestors have always been of a more steady principle, more wise, and more weigh’d, than to dance after their Politicks.
1909. Westm. Gaz., 23 April, 3/1. The weighed judgments of the staid ‘councillor.’
3. With down: Depressed, downcast.
1822. Byron, Werner, I. i. 509. ’Tis past fatigue which gives my weigh’d-down spirit An outward show of thought.
