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mellowed, ppl. a.|ˈmɛləʊd|
[f. mellow v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.: Rendered mellow.
1575Gascoigne Gloze Text 2 Posies Hearbes 145 My riper mellowed yeares beginne to follow on as fast. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 104 Call him my King, by whose iniurious doome My elder Brother..Was done to death?..Euen in the downe-fall of his mellow'd yeeres. 1798Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Spring 63 Wide o'er the fields, in rising moisture strong, Shoots up the simple flower, or creeps along The mellow'd soil. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 155 This water, present in exposed or mellowed malt, tends to lower the resulting temperature. a1853Robertson Lect. (1858) 247 Ripened with the mellowed strength of manly life. 1889County vi. in Cornh. Mag. Feb., The fine old room with its mellowed walls and priceless brocades.
Add: Also with out (see *mellow v. 3 c).
1977N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Nov. 117/1 All suggest that the laid-back, mellowed-out speaker achieves a perfect relation with the universe while in a state of passivity. 1979Time 10 Sept. 82/3 After a lengthy period of mellowed-out serenity.., Vonnegut is mad again. 1988Sports Illustr. 16 May 12/3 ‘You told me on the phone that the highest rock climb would be 15 feet.’ ‘Ah, did I?’ he said in his most mellowed-out tones. |