ppl. a. [f. prec.]
† 1. In which value is indicated. Obs.–1
1605. Shaks., Macb., III. i. 94. The valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle.
b. Valued policy (see quot. 1848).
1761. in Burrow, Law Rep., II. 1171. A valued Policy is not to be considered as a Wager Policy. Ibid. (1766), IV. 69.
1848. Arnould, Marine Insur., I. v. (1866), I. 218. A valued policy is one in which the agreed value of the subject insured … is expressed on the face of the policy.
1903. Daily Chron., 25 Sept., 6/7. Let … the private individual demand a ‘valued’ policy, and the monopoly of the big companies collapses.
2. Estimated, appraised; to which a definite value has been assigned.
1607. Middleton, Fam. Love, I. ii. 58. Art or nature never yet could set A valued price to her unvalued worth.
1613. Tapp, Pathw. Knowledge, 258. Now out of 252 li. the valued price of 12 peeces of Linnen cloth ready money, substract 46 li. [etc.].
1752. McDouall, Inst. Laws Scot., II. 333. There is no mention in the brieve or service of the Valued rent.
1798. in Hist. Moray (1882), I. i. 172. The valued rent is £350.
3. Highly esteemed or appreciated.
1665. Glanvill, Def. Van. Dogm., 79. Laertius sayes in his [book that] the Epicureans … were the only valued Sects of Philosophers.
1735. Pope, Odyssey, XV. 129. This silver bowl,… this valued gift be thine.
1746. Francis, trans. Horace, Epist., I. xviii. 138. You … boldly guard the injur’d Fame Of a well-known, and valued Friend.
1803. Visct. Strangford, Poems of Camoens (1810), 107. Within my bosom’s cell I bear A recent wound—a valued woe.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 160. The exposition of a political transaction is never without some valued results.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xxvii. 272. I have omitted that which was its most valued characteristic. It abounded in life.
