ppl. a. [f. SMOOTH v.]
1. Rendered specious or plausible. rare.
1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie (1879), 101. Nor he that files his smoothed speeche.
1575. Gascoigne, Weedes, Wks. (1587), 152. Their smoothed toongues are lined all with guile.
2. Made smooth, even, placid; unruffled, etc.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., III. i. 124. The Duke Hath banisht moodie discontented fury, As by his smoothed Browes it doth appeare.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Perpins, Stones made iust as thicke as a wall, & shewing their smoothed ends on either side thereof.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 772. They … on the smoothed Plank … expatiate.
1713. Young, Last Day, II. 368. How the smooth’d spirit into goodness glides!
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. V. i. With cheerfully smoothed countenances.
1897. Miss Kingsley, W. Africa, 168. Masses of smoothed rock rise up out of the whirling water.
† 3. Indulged, pampered. Obs.
1600. Breton, Pasquil’s Fooles Cap, lxxiii. Such smoothed Godsons shew in Wisdomes schoole, A Milk-soppe Babie is more halfe a Foole.
Hence † Smoothedness, smoothness. Obs.–1
1573. Golding, in Baret, Alv., To Rdr. ix. The natiue propertie Of brode North speech and Sowthren smoothednesse.
