ppl. a. [f. AIM v. + -ED.]
† 1. Estimated. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Lev. xxvii. 19. He shal adde the fifthe part of the eymed money.
2. Directed or pointed at a mark, or in a particular direction; also fig.
1635. A. Stafford, Fem. Glory (1869), 179. Temptations aym’d at her, broke like Haile against a Rocke.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, viii. 176, Wks. I. 134. An archer’s hand, Palsied with fear, shot wide his ill-aim’d shaft.
3. Aimed at: Taken as a point of destination, or as a mark or butt; sought to be reached or struck.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. I. 24. Which was the discovery principally aimed at.
