Crossword clues for composed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Composed \Com*posed"\, a. Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.
The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate,
Composed his posture, and his look sedate.
--Pope.
-- Com*pos"ed*ly, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n.
Compose \Com*pose"\ (k[o^]m*p[=o]z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Composed; p. pr. & vb. n. Composing.] [F. composer; com- + poser to place. The sense is that of L. componere, but the origin is different. See Pose, v. t.]
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To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
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To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb.
--Milton.A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions.
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To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.
Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose.
--Pope.The genius that composed such works as the ``Standard'' and ``Last Supper''.
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To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
In a peaceful grave my corpse compose.
--Dryden.How in safety best we may Compose our present evils.
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To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
Compose thy mind; Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.
--Dryden. (Print.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"calm, tranquil," c.1600, past participle adjective frome compose (v.). Related: Composedly; composedness.
Wiktionary
showing composure. v
(en-past of: compose)
WordNet
adj. made up of individual elements; "if perception is seen as composed of isolated sense data..."
serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress; "the performer seemed completely composed as she stepped onto the stage"; "I felt calm and more composed than I had in a long time" [ant: discomposed]
Wikipedia
Composed is an album by Sacramento born musician, composer and arranger Jherek Bischoff. It was released by The Leaf Label and Brassland. The album features nine orchestral pieces with a different vocalist on eight of the nine tracks.
Usage examples of "composed".
It was his creative work that he wished most to be remembered for: Here Was Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia Adams had, however, composed an inscription to be carved into the sarcophagus lid of Henry Adams, the first Adams to arrive in Massachusetts, in 1638.
While the man was preparing his pens and ink and setting a disc of red wax to soften on a sun-warmed stone, the Aedile composed in his head the letter he needed to write.
The main body of ancient tradition here agrees with the evidence of language: the poems are composed in the Ionic dialect, with an admixture of Aeolic forms.
On the news that the Porpoise fleet, composed of six hundred great ships, was in sight of Alca, the bishop ordered a solemn procession.
Raised by her parents from Mahon on a small farm in the Sahel, she was very young when she married a slender and delicate man, also of Mahon origin, whose brothers had already settled in Algeria by 1848, after the tragic death of the paternal grandfather, a sometime poet who composed his verses mounted on a donkey and riding around the island between stone walls that bordered vegetable gardens.
All we need is a team composed of specialist Alpinists, Commandos, mountaineers and safe-breakers and what do we have?
He also sang as basso of the Temple Emanuel from 1874 to 1888, thirteen consecutive years, and was the basso profundo of that celebrated male quartette, The Amphions, composed of Joseph Maguire, H.
It was composed, after a careful consideration and comparison of the principal Anglican divines of the seventeenth century.
He supposed that it might very well be composed of the same sort of material used to make the ants themselves.
The nations which composed the formidable conspiracy against Rome were eight in number--the Marsians, Pelignians, Marrucinians, Vestinians, Picentines, Samnites, Apulians, and Lucanians.
Don Quixote of La Mancha, composed not by Cide Hamete, its first author, but by an Aragonese who is, he says, a native of Tordesillas.
It was composed in Aramaic two thousand years ago by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
For the Word in its bosom is spiritual, containing arcana of divine wisdom, and in order to contain them has been composed throughout in correspondences and representations.
The Archean, composed of gneiss and crystalline schists, and traversed by eruptive veins, extends over the greater part of the Eastern Rumelian plain, the Rilska Planina, Rhodope, and the adjacent ranges.
To preside over the heterogeneous elements of which Asuncion was composed, Domingo Martinez de Irala was chosen.