ppl. a. [f. FLAT v.3 + -ED1.]
1. Laid flat; leveled with the ground or surface. Of the sea: Made smooth or calm.
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 611. Flatted, or made flat, æquatus, complanatus.
1700. Dryden, Fables, Ceyx & Alcyone, 131.
| Then frothy White appear the flatted Seas, | |
| And change their Colour, changing their Disease. |
1715–20. Pope, Iliad, V. 120.
| The yellow Harvests of the ripen’d Year, | |
| And flatted Vineyards, one sad Waste appear; | |
| While Jove descends in sluicy Sheets of Rain, | |
| And all the Labours of Mankind are vain. |
1750. Thomson, Autumn, 335.
| The mingling tempest weaves its gloom, and still | |
| The deluge deepens; till the fields around | |
| Lie sunk, and flatted, in the sordid wave. |
2. Beaten or pressed out flat; flattened; deprived of convexity or rotundity; made broad and thin.
1578. J. Banister, The Historie of Man, I. 28. The inferiour part of Radius … is not onely at the end flatted, but also ample, large, and with a double bosome, or hollow excaued.
1650. T. B[ayley], Worcester’s Apoph. (1669), 67. Turning the flatted bullet round with his finger, he further said, Gentlemen, Those who had a mind to flatter me, were wont to tell me, that I had a good head-piece in my younger dayes, but if I do not flatter my self, I think I have a good head-piece in my old age, or else it would not have been Musquet proof.
1797. W. Johnston, trans. Beckmann’s Invent., II. 232. It would be of some importance if one could determine the period when flatted metal wire began to be spun round linen or silk thread.
1812. J. Smyth, Pract. Customs (1821), 68. Coffee is of an oval form, smaller than a horsebean, of a tough, close, and very hard texture. It is convex on one side, and flatted on the other, with a deep furrow, which runs along the flatted side.
1879. W. Collins, Rogue’s Life, ix. 104. As soon as he turns out a tolerably neat article, from the simple flatted plates, under your inspection, let me know.
† 3. Made of flat bars. Obs.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric. (1807), II. 161. The hurdles employed for this purpose are generally of two kinds, either flatted or rodded; the former being made from small poles of ash, willow, or other tough sorts of woods, by splitting them.
† 4. Rendered vapid or insipid. Obs.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 377. An Orenge, Limon, and Apple … fresh in their Colour; But their Iuyce somewhat flatted.
5. Of pigments and painted surfaces: Dead, dull, without gloss.
1851. Ord. & Regul. R. Engineers, xix. 89. Two rooms flatted or French grey.
1859. Gullick & Timbs, Paint., 243. The essential oils would have produced a ‘flatted,’ dull, or unshining surface, which would not only have rendered the picture more liable to harbour dust, but also have destroyed the glossy appearance which was considered the peculiar merit of the vehicle.
