ppl. a.
1. Composed in good measure or rhythm.
c. 1645. Milton, Sonn. to Lawes, 1. Harry whose tuneful and well measur’d Song First taught our English Musick how to span Words with just note and accent.
1839. Hallam, Hist. Lit., II. II. vii. § 9. Puttenham is perhaps the first who wrote a well-measured prose.
2. Wisely calculated or adjusted.
1839–40. Wordsw., Punishm. Death, viii. Yet, as she may, for each peculiar case She [the State] plants well-measured terrors in the road Of wrongful acts.
