ppl. a. [f. TIME v. (and sb.) + -ED.) † a. Matured by time, seasoned. Obs. rare–1.
b. Done, made, or occurring at a (proper or improper) time; † done at the right time, well-timed, timely (obs.). c. Of music or verse: Written in measure. d. Fixed or regulated as to time.
Also, as second element in a compound, as ill-timed, well-timed, even-timed; two-, three-, four-timed.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] xliv. 130. There is a flowing noblenesse, that some men be graced with, which farre out shines the notions of a timed Student.
a. 1760. Hogarth, in Cunningham, Brit. Paint. (1829), I. 167. The stagnation rendered it necessary that I should do some timed thing to recover my lost time and stop a gap in my income.
1888. Bookseller, 5 Sept., 920. Two-timed metre is identified with the octave or root, three-timed metre with the fifth, and four-timed metre—the last of the uncompounded metres, and including the other two—is identified with the third.
1896. R. G. Moulton, Lit. Stud. Bible, iv. 117. The oratorio combines recitative with timed music.
1898. G. Meredith, Odes Fr. Hist., 83. A timed artillery speaks full-mouthed.
1901. R. Ellis, trans. Aetna, 4. These … kilns the Cyclops used, when bending … to their even-timed strokes, they shook the dreadful thunder-bolt with the beat of their ponderous hammers.
