1565 J. Hall tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Antidotarie iv. 57 Incorporate all these, wyth the herbes and rotes, in the reserued decoction, & therof make vp an emplaster, meanly thicke and liquide.

1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. x. 453 What..doth a mouse take, when shee catcheth the reserued hoast, or what doth she eate?

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 65 in Wks. II With all your..reseru'd Questions, and Answers that you game with.

1664 J. Evelyn Pomona viii. 20 in Sylva Let the reserved Branches be divided at a convenient roundness.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Cases At the Article of Death,..all reserv'd Cases are absolvable by the Ordinary.

1791 Ld. Kames Dict. Decis. (ed. 2) I. 291 In a question, how far a reserved faculty..accresced to a creditor whose debt was contracted before that faculty?

1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 150 Divide the reserved quotient by the square of s, and reserve this quotient.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 858 Reserved powers are of different sorts; as a reserved power of burdening a property, or a reserved power to revoke or recall a settlement or other deed.

1884 Catholic Dict. 717/2 Absolution from a reserved sin may be given by the superior who reserves it.

1897 W. Walsh Secret Hist. Oxf. Movement x. 342 The ostensible reason for restoring the Reserved Sacrament is that it is then always ready to be given to the sick.

1931 W. Eiselen in A. M. Duggan-Cronin Bantu Tribes II. ii. 35 The greater part of the Pedi tribe lived in reserved areas situated in the Middelburg, Lydenburg and Pietersburg districts.

1952 C. Seltman Twelve Olympians iii. 34 In the ancient parish church he might..see a crucifix upon the altar, a light burning before a reserved Host, and an image of Our Lady in one aisle.

1973 R. A. Lee Hist. Regulatory Taxation i. 5 A revenue law must only raise revenue. It cannot encroach in any way upon the reserved powers of the states.

2002 J. Harris & F. Warde French Kitchen 40/2 Check the seasoning, scatter with the reserved watercress and serve at once.

1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. vii. 37 The chiefe Rabbies sate in reserved chaires, these are those chiefe seats in the Synagogues.

1822 Times 11 May 1/2 Tickets of admission to the reserved seats may be had on application to Mr. Suter.

1856 Times 1 Sept. 9/2 The performance..was..alone worth the price of a reserved ticket and a visit to St. George's hall.

1867 People's Mag. 5 Oct. 663/2 Whether they were suffered to depart, or were shown into a reserved room, and thence were smuggled privately into audience out of their turn, it is not for me to say.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life viii. ii. 288 Reserved seats in the great assemblage of the world.

1902 Atlanta Constit. 13 Apr. 8/3 A great feature of German saloon life is the stammtisch or reserved table where men of all professions and all conditions meet every evening.

1935 R. Macaulay Personal Pleasures 19 Now for the train;..Second-class... No, nothing else about it matters, and I have no reserved seat.

1994 Time 25 July 28/1 Other parks..sell reserved tickets through a commercial agency.

2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names i. 1 Survival instinct propels me through the Euston crowds towards a reserved first-class seat on the nine-oh-three Intercity Express.

1655 W. Sales Theophania ii. 46 [He] being returned, commanding Emilius and me to draw out those thousand reserved men a-part, coming to the head of them, made a short speech.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 100 Whereupon our reserved Men advancing, we resolved to fire only three Men at a time, and move forward like an Army firing in Platoons.

1757 Let. to W. P— 71 Of the 73 Ships remaining as yet unapplied, we may reasonably suppose there may be 20..either building, repairing, or unfit for Service,..then our reserved Fleet will consist of the following Rates.

1826 Times 4 Mar. 2/1 Instead of fairly stating to the Admiralty that he was in holy orders, he asked, as a convenience to himself, to be put upon the reserved list.

1826 Caledonian Mercury 10 Aug. Twenty Captains were called into service from the reserved half pay list.

1852 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. May 234 We should not only have reserved ships, but reserved officers, and reserved seamen.

1852 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. May 238 Adequate caution is not taken to insure the services of those men who are receiving reserved pay.

1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. at Reserved List In the remote contingency of the Active List being exhausted,..these ‘reserved’ officers would be liable to be called upon to serve.

1895 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 6 Apr. 8/5 Admirals, Sir Wm. Loring, K.C.B.,..Gilbert B. Rutherford (all on Retired List), and Richard H. Stopford (on reserved half-pay).

1924 Times 24 June 14/5 The vacancy created by Colonel Commandant G. J. H. Mullins..being placed on the Reserved List of Colonels, R.M.

1996 J. Slagle Ironclad Captain 398 After being placed on the Reserved List, Gilliss worked for the Smithsonian Institution until the outbreak of the Civil War.

1824 A. Ure in tr. C.-L. Berthollet & A.-B. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. 446 The reserved portions being defended from the action of the indigo, remain white, while the rest of the surface takes a fast blue.

1833 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Apr. 263 If the brown glaze is not to cover the whole of the surface, wet paper is laid on the reserved parts, which, after the glaze has been put on and has ceased to be fluid, is removed.

1899 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 19 171 The sculptured pediment..reappears, treated in the same manner, the ‘reserved’ palmette supported by the same band of delicate egg-pattern, only on two other lekythoi.

1930 Discovery Aug. 255/2 From the fourth level [of the excavations at Ur] came a peculiar form of painted pottery that has been termed ‘Reserved slip-ware’, the paint being applied to the whole body of the pot and then wiped off at intervals so as to produce a series of striations.

1954 M. Rickert Painting in Brit.: Middle Ages 231 Reserved edges, spaces left around a painted ornament exposing the vellum of a manuscript page. In Hiberno-Saxon decoration the reserved edges aid in clarifying a complicated pattern of spirals or interlace.

1977 Sci. Amer. Mar. 122/2 (caption) Pot d carries a ‘reserved’ design, produced by applying a red slip over an orange underslip.

2002 Anatolian Stud. 52 123/1 A range of petals is placed on a reserved band in the shoulder zone [of the vessel].

1915 Local Govt. Board Circular No. R.2 2 A list has been prepared..of still further occupations (to be known as ‘reserved occupations’), to which, in the public interest, from the point of view of the export trade or for other reasons, it is desirable to extend some measure of protection, either because the persons included in them..are engaged in work which could not be interrupted without serious dislocation or because the industries affected are such that it would be unwise to take more men from them without special investigation.

1915 Times 4 Nov. 5/1 Comparatively few recruits asked to be put in the reserved classes.

1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress iv. 79 Her girls wished to go straight into the Forces..while their parents wanted them to..get a job in a reserved occupation.

1972 M. Jones Life on Dole viii. 61 Mining was a reserved occupation, and even young men who wanted to get into uniform found themselves directed to the pits.

1992 M. S. Alexander Republic in Danger (2002) 135 It was the outbreak of war itself that activated controls over men in reserved trades.

2004 B. Richards Secret Flotillas I. xi. 114 He..fretted at being in a reserved civilian occupation and obtained a transfer to the French air force.

1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan ii. i A chast reserued priuatnes, a modest continence.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. v. 62 All her deseruing Is a reserued honestie. View more context for this quotation

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 131 A reserved carriage which begat envy in the people to the greatest Emperours.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 196 Men of the Presbyterian perswasion..generally are morose, clownish, and of sullen and reserved natures.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. xi. 90 ‘Pursuit of whom?’ said Sophia, a little recollecting herself, and assuming a reserved Air. View more context for this quotation

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 83 The judges are, or ought to be, of a reserved and retired character.

1813 Sketches of Character (ed. 2) I. 211 [He] was of a reserved disposition.

1872 J. Ruskin Eagle's Nest §92 The reserved and proud imagination of the master-schools.

1933 J. C. Powys Glastonbury Romance i. 325 Her pose was withdrawn, chaste, reserved, remote, her face cold and pale.

1984 A. Lee Sarah Phillips (1985) 99 I always felt that behind your reserved manner in class was a rare sensitivity of nature.

2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Aug. 66/2 My driver looks like a terrorist: steady eyes, thick beard, the reserved watchfulness of the devout.

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 120 Some are so close, and reserved, as they will not shew their wares, but by a darke light.

1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. L8 Let who will; praise, and behold, The reserued Marigold.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 251 His wife being very reserv'd and discreet in her husband's presence, but in his absence more free and jolly.

1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice i. 6 We are the most reserv'd Family in the World. There were Fourteen Sisters of us, and not one of us married.

1747 W. Collins Odes 36 Thy Springs, and dying Gales, O Nymph reserv'd.

1782 W. Cowper Friendship 188 The man I trust, if shy to me, Shall find me as reserv'd as he.

1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. i. 76 [They] are certainly queer, stiff, reserved sort of people.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. i. xii. 146 As a statesman he was reserved, seldom showing his own thoughts.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxi. 89 He limped about demurely, silent and reserved.

1985 L. Whistler Laughter & Urn ii. 17 He could not..broadcast an easy affection; for he was reserved, even secretive.

2008 Independent 10 Jan. 4/1 Clinton, normally so reserved and controlled, seemed to emerge from her bubble of scripts and talking points.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 205 They will usually lye..in one reserved place, where the water is deep, and runs quietly. View more context for this quotation

1689 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) xiv. 122 Abundance of them [sc. fish] lie together in one reserved place where the water runs deep and quietly.