ppl. a. Also 6–8 exprest. [f. EXPRESS v. + -ED1.]
1. Pressed out; extracted or forced out by mechanical pressure. Expressed oil (see quot. 1859).
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 116/1. Take also of the best expressed oyle of Nuttmegges.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys.-Mech., xxiv. 188. After this express’d Oyl, we made tryal of a distill’d one.
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, 269. The express’d Juices of several Vegetables.
1859. Gullick & Timbs, Paint., 206. They [the fixed oils] are termed ‘expressed’ oils because they are not extracted by distillation, like the essential oils.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 432 s.v. Oils, Recently-expressed or very fresh oils.
† b. That has had the juice, etc., pressed out of it; squeezed or wrung dry. Obs.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Tracts (1684), 13. They might after give the expressed and less usefull part … unto their Swine.
1705. T. Greenhill, in Phil. Trans., XXV. 2010. Like an expressed Sponge.
1743. Lond. & Country Brewer, II. (ed. 2), 101. As is … plain in all expressed Vegetables.
2. Uttered or made known in words.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John, 122 a. By the expressed voyce of this man.
1892. Daily News, 6 Feb., 6/1. In accordance with the expressed wish of the deceased.
Mod. Inconsistent with his own expressed opinions.
† b. Express, explicit. Also of a functionary: Stated, recognized. Obs.
1534. Whitinton, Tullyes Offices, I. (1540), 15. The vttermost of right is expressed wronge.
1553. Eden, Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.), 8. It is not written by expressed wordes that [etc.].
1554. Knox, Godly Let., C viij. No such promese haue we … but rather the exprest contrarie.
1658. Ussher, Ann., VI. 440. Gorgias their exprest Commander was from them.
1736. Butler, Anal., I. vi. 113. The Sense or Perception of good and ill Desert … makes it [the sanction] appear, as one may say, expressed.
3. Expressed species (transl. L. species expressa): in Scholastic Philosophy, a ‘species’ or essential form imposed on outward objects by the activity of the mind itself. The term was revived by Le Clerc in his pseudo-scientific Optics: see quot.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Species, Expressed Species are those … which proceed from within … Le Clerc, in his system of vision … has called upon the stage again the species expressæ of the ancient philosophers. For according to him, it is not by species or images impressed on the optic nerve, that the soul sees objects, but by rays which she herself directs to them.
[1857. Maurice, Mor. & Met. Philos., III. v. § 90. 232. The mind knows itself … not by a species impressed upon it, but by a species expressed from it.]
