The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
adv. In a composed manner.
WordNet
adv. in a self-collected or self-possessed manner; "he announced the death of his father collectedly" [syn: collectedly]
Usage examples of "composedly".
Quite composedly she looked up and saw Lionheart and a young man she did not recognise leading two horses towards a barn a little distance away.
I had no knowledge of human nature, no knowledge of artifice and tricks, and I could not understand how I found myself coolly witnessing such a scene, and composedly calm in the presence of two beings, one of whom I intended to kill and the other to dishonour.
She ate her way through the delicious meal, answering composedly when spoken to, but not contributing to the conversation, for somehow Estelle, without saying a word, had managed to convey to her the fact that she was the nurse and only there because they were all too well-mannered to dwell on the fact that she was paid wages and was hardly out of the same drawer, socially speaking.
It enabled me to walk composedly and not too hurriedly through the crowd behind the scenes—supers, scene-shifters, principals, none of whom seemed to be aware as yet of the hoax practised on Mademoiselle Mars' maid.