ppl. a. [f. ADJUST + -ED.]
1. Arranged, composed, harmonized, settled.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. I. 14. All the overtures they had made being adjusted.
1750. Johnson, Rambler, No. 13, ¶ 13. Promises of friendship are useless and vain, unless they are made in some known sense, adjusted and acknowledged by both parties.
1811. L. M. Hawkins, Countess & Gertr., I. 243. A species of thrift, which by an adjusted balance of caprice and parsimony, saved nothing in the event.
2. Disposed or arranged so as to fit or answer (to something); adapted.
1777. Hume, Ess. & Treat., I. 109. It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense.
3. Properly ordered or regulated.
1675. Ogilby, Brit., Pref. 4. This, if accurately adjusted … would conduce … to the Regulation of Latitudes.
1865. Mozley, Miracles, viii. 175. Who could stand firm, and maintain a moderate and adjusted ground against the strong tendencies to extravagance.
