ppl. a. [f. CONTAIN.]
1. Enclosed, included, etc.; spec. in Geom.; see the verb.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 91. Conteynyd (or within holdyn), contentus.
1545. Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, 8. The skyn … compassith immedyatly all the contaynyd meate of the egge.
1571. Digges, Pantom., IV. v. V iij b. The semidiameter of his conteyned circle.
1696. Whiston, Th. Earth, III. (1722), 227. The Air, with all its contained Vapours.
1807. Hutton, Course Math., II. 7. When two sides and the contained angle are given.
2. Restrained; † of a person, self-restrained (obs.).
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xxiv. 92. He was not for all that so contained, but that taking him by the Beard he swore.
1882. Stevenson, New Arab. Nts. (1884), 239. He, with contained ferocity, was striking for my head.
