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contained, ppl. a.|kənˈteɪnd|
[f. contain.]
1. Enclosed, included, etc.; spec. in Geom.; see the verb.
c1440Promp. Parv. 91 Conteynyd (or within holdyn), contentus. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 8 The skyn..compassith immedyatly all the contaynyd meate of the egge. 1571Digges Pantom. iv. v. V iij b, The semidiameter of his conteyned circle. 1696Whiston Th. Earth iii. (1722) 227 The Air, with all its contained Vapours. 1807Hutton Course Math. II. 7 When two sides and the contained angle are given.
2. Restrained; † of a person, self-restrained (obs.).
1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxiv. 92 He was not for all that so contained, but that taking him by the Beard he swore. 1882Stevenson New Arab. Nts. (1884) 239 He, with contained ferocity, was striking for my head. |