a. [f. LEISURE + -ED2.]
1. Of time, action: Characterized or accompanied by leisure.
1631. Heywood, 2nd Pt. Fair Maid of West, Ded., Wks. 1874, II. 2. Please you at any of your more leisured hours to vouchsafe the perusal of these slight papers.
1647. Boyle, Lett. to Hartlib, 8 April, Wks. 1772, I. Life 39. The particulars … do not only ask a profound knowledge … but likewise a leisured and a great multiplicity of reading.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 56. A leisured and level life, free from excitement, hurry and physical exertion or fatigue.
2. Of persons: Having ample leisure, esp. in the leisured class(es.
1794. Gentl. Mag., II. 1132. Foliage op’ning to the day Courts the leisur’d mortal’s stray.
1848. Mill, Pol. Econ., II. ii. § 4 (1876), 140. The services which a nation having leisured classes is entitled to expect from them.
1877. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. II. 347. The leisured student.
1891. A. Caldecott, Eng. Coloniz., 101. The absorption of energy in the making of fortunes has prevented the formation of any such leisured class as is the matrix, so to speak, of poets and novelists.
