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assured, ppl. a. and n.|əˈʃʊəd|
Also 5 assewred, -rid, asseured, 6 adsured; Sc. 4–6 assouerit, 6 assurit.
[f. assure v. + -ed.]
A. ppl. a.
†1. Made safe, secured; safe, secure. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce x. 187 Quhen feldis..Chargit with corne assouerit var. 1475Caxton Jason 78 He helde him wel assured in his palais. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxiii. [clix.] 453 Whanne he thought to haue been moste assuredest on the heyght of fortunes whele. 1614Raleigh Hist. World II. v. iii. §6. 375 In some plentifull and assured place.
2. Made sure or certain.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi, Your owne assured man. 1559Myrr. Mag., Dk. York x. 5 For ayde wherin I knit assured bandes. 1614Raleigh Hist. World v. ii. §2 Being thought so much the more assured to their master. 1882Pall Mall G. 13 July 2/1 Many of the charters to carry coal..being made upon an assured return cargo.
†3. Engaged, covenanted, pledged. arch. or Obs.
1426Pol. Poems (1859) II. 136 Phelip..Duc of Burgoyne, assured eke and sworne. 1570Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) II. 244, 700 English horsemen, besides the assured Scots horsemen. 1600in Shaks. C. Praise 38 Your assured friend Charles Percy. a1672in Wood Life (1848) 86 note, Your honor's most asurid to do you servis, Thos. Baskeruile.
†4. Engaged for marriage, betrothed. Obs.
1474Caxton Chesse 14 A right fayr mayde which was assured and handfast vnto a noble yonge gentilman. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 466 You muse Philautus to see Camilla and me to bee assured. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. iii. ii. 145 This drudge..call'd me Dromio, swore, I was assur'd to her.
5. Certified, verified, certain, sure.
1574tr. Marlorats Apocalips 50 An assured testimonie of Christes Godhead. c1712Advt. in Spect. (ed. Morley) 905 An Assured Cure for Leanness. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. v. §29. 142 The assured facts are, that both the shafts of the pillars..were, etc.
6. Satisfied as to the truth or certainty of a matter, confident.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ix. 7 Whan she knewe she was in the Empyre, she was better assured than she was before. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 30, I will be assured I may: and that I may be assured, I will bethinke mee. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 137 A Man had need be well assur'd of his Credit. 1851Helps Friends in C. I. 108 The great thing to be assured of in social knowledge.
7. Full of self-assurance, self-possessed, confident, bold; in a bad sense: Self-satisfied, presumptuous.
1475Caxton Jason 30 b, The moste asseured of them began to tremble. 1685Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 253 Of an assured and undaunted spirit. 1714Spect. No. 573 ⁋2 He..began to proceed with such an assured easy air. 1734Watts Reliq. Juv. (1789) 48 With an air of assured ignorance. 1839Carlyle Chartism iv. (1852) 18 Leave with assured heart the issue to a higher Power!
B. n. (sometimes with pl. in -s). A person whose life or goods are insured by the payment of a premium.
1755N. Magens Insurances I. 138 The Assureds on their part represented: That all the Effects shipped for this Account ought to be included in this Risk. 1861Times 26 Dec., The assured or their agents, though concerned in the shipment. 1884Law Times Rep. 16 Feb. 764/1 Liabilities of T., as an insurer, to the other members of the association as assureds. |