ppl. a. [f. BECALM v. + -ED.] a. Calmed, quieted, stilled. b. Motionless for want of wind.

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a. 1567.  Cowley, Solit., Wks. 1710, II. 693. They’re like a becalmed Ship.

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1666.  Dryden, Ann. Mirab., xcix. (J.). The moon shone clear on the becalmed floud.

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a. 1674.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., III. xv. 491. The silence … of a becalm’d Conscience.

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