▪ I. expressed, ppl. a.1
(ɛkˈsprɛst)
Also 6–8 exprest.
[f. express v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Pressed out; extracted or forced out by mechanical pressure. expressed oil (see quot. 1859).
| 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 116/1 The best expressed oyle of Nutmegges. 1660 Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxiv. 188 After this express'd Oyl, we made tryal of a distill'd one. 1732 Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 269 The express'd Juices of several Vegetables. 1859 Gullick & Timbs Paint. 206 They [the fixed oils] are termed ‘expressed’ oils because they are not extracted by distillation, like the essential oils. 1875 Ure Dict. Arts III. 432 s.v. Oils, Recently-expressed or very fresh oils. |
† b. That has had the juice, etc., pressed out of it; squeezed or wrung dry. Obs.
| a 1682 Sir T. Browne Tracts 13 They might after give the expressed and less usefull part unto their swine. 1705 T. Greenhill in Phil. Trans. XXV. 2010 Like an expressed Sponge. 1743 Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 101 As is..plain in all expressed Vegetables. |
2. Uttered or made known in words.
| 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John 122 a, By the expressed voyce of this man. 1892 Daily News 6 Feb. 6/1 In accordance with the expressed wish of the deceased. Mod., Inconsistent with his own expressed opinions. |
† b. Express, explicit. Also of a functionary: Stated, recognized. Obs.
| 1534 Whitinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 15 The vttermost of right is expressed wronge. 1553 Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 8 It is not written by expressed wordes that, etc. 1554 Knox Godly Let. C viij, No such promese haue we..but rather the exprest contrarie. 1658 Ussher Ann. vi. 440 Gorgias their exprest Commander was from them. 1736 Butler Anal. i. vi. 159 The..perception of good and ill desert..makes [the sanction] appear, as one may say expressed. |
3. expressed species (transl. L. species expressa): in Scholastic Philosophy, a ‘species’ or essential form imposed on outward objects by the activity of the mind itself. The term was revived by Le Clerc in his pseudo-scientific Optics: see quot.
| 1751 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Species, Expressed Species are those..which proceed from within..Le Clerc, in his system of vision..has called upon the stage again the species expressæ of the ancient philosophers. For according to him, it is not by species or images impressed on the optic nerve, that the soul sees objects, but by rays which she herself directs to them. [1857 Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. III. v. §90. 232 The mind knows itself..not by a species impressed upon it, but by a species expressed from it.] |
▪ II. expressed, ppl. a.2
see express v.2