1. Placed at the center or in a central position.
1590. Spenser, Muiopotmos, 19. Betwixt the centred earth, and azure skies.
1683. Temple, Mem., Wks. 1731, I. 403. They were … easie of Access from all Parts; center’d between Spain and Sweden.
1829. Tennyson, Timbuctoo, 21. A center’d glory-circled memory, Divinest Atalantis.
2. Fixed on a center as a point of support or equilibrium; furnished with a center.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Rich. II., ccxcvii. Soe may a Cent’red Rocke Bee made a Tennis-ball.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Plato, Wks. (Bohn), I. 309. Plato is so centred, that he can well spare all his dogmas.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., lix. My centred passion cannot move, Nor will it lessen from to-day.
3. Brought together to a center, concentrated.
1805. Southey, Madoc in Azt., xxii. There to collect their strength, and thence with centered numbers urge the war.
4. Having a center: also in comb., as in deep-centred, etc.
