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Webster 1913 Edition


Polished

Pol′ished

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Adj.
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite;
as,
polished
plate;
polished
manners;
polished
verse.

Webster 1828 Edition


Polished

POL'ISHED

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pp.
Made smooth and glossy; refined.

Definition 2024


polished

polished

English

Adjective

polished (comparative more polished, superlative most polished)

  1. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
      A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, [].
    polished shoes
  2. Refined, elegant.
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
      "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
    a polished performance
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:
      She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

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Verb

polished

  1. simple past tense and past participle of polish

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