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polished, ppl. a.|ˈpɒlɪʃt|
[f. polish v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Made smooth and (usually) glossy by friction.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints l. (Katerine) 107 Schenand thru gold & polist stanys. c1400Sege Jerusalem 472 A plate of pulsched gold. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 708 Throw platis of polist steil. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 23 O pollish'd Perturbation! Golden Care! 1736Gray Statius i. 41 In dust the polish'd ball he roll'd. 1860Tyndall Glaciers i. xv. 100 The road..lay right over the polished rocks.
b. Having naturally a smooth glossy surface.
1833Penny Cycl. I. 76/2 Acer lævigatum, the polished maple.
c. Of rice: having the outer layers of the grain removed.
1922W. G. R. Francillon Good Cookery (ed. 2) xii. 236 Unpolished rice is cheaper and more nutritious than polished rice. 1948Good Housek. Cookery Bk. ii. 400 The natural rice has rather more flavour and food value than polished rice. 1979P. B. Medawar Advice to Young Scientist vi. 32 Scientists..demonstrated that..unpolished rice is much better for us than polished white rice.
2. fig. Refined, cultured, elegant: see polish v. 2.
c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2939 Weyuë fauel with his polysshid speche. 1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 1093 Noble Chaucer, whos pullisshyd eloquence Oure englysshe rude so fresshely hath set out. 1639Hamilton Papers (Camden) 100 Grace them with your more perfect and polished expressions. 1763Johnson 16 May in Boswell, In more polished times there are people to do every thing for money. 1796Jane Austen Pride & Prej. vi, I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies. 1894Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough I. 239 Charles..liked his polished manners.
Hence ˈpolishedly adv., ˈpolishedness.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits ix. (1596) 121 He could not..deliuer his mind in them polishedly. Ibid. 123 Esay..had ornament and polishednesse of speech. 1737Coventry Phil. to Hyd. ii. 9 A general Polishedness of Manners, and inward Character. 1889Gunter That Frenchman! ix, Polishedly polite to his equals. |