1. Disposed of by will or testament.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., III. ix. I am the willed-away girl.
2. Determined or effected by the will; voluntary.
1871. G. Macdonald, Rest, iii. 9.
| There is a rest that deeper grows | |
| In midst of pain and strife; | |
| A mighty, conscious, willed repose, | |
| The death of deepest life. |
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 514. The prolonged natural discharges of neurons underlying willed and natural movements.
1905. J. Rickaby, God & His Creatures, I. lxxii. 56. Understood good, as such, must be willed good.
b. Controlled by another’s will, as in hypnotism.
1886. Gurney, etc., Phantasms of Living, I. 14. The ‘willed’ performer, after various minute indications of a tendency to move in this, that, or the other wrong direction, at last hits on the right one.
