term'd

If I was at your elbow I could probabaly instruct you from experience which is a thing that does not allways arrise from age itself, nor from what is term'd knowledge.

Letter 205 2009

Your prises as to provisions are much like ours therefore as you must have provision if at home, the real weekly expence which may be term'd extra is your lodging and coals which at 16s pr week for three months is but about ten pounds, and your carriage down and home about £8, now if they raise your rent we may still do the whole for thirty pounds; courage girl, courage.

Letter 168 2009

But it is a Soliloquy in character: and in judging of it, as in all pieces of representative Poetry (as Mr. DYER, in his lately publish'd ESSAY has well term'd it) the imagin'd situation ought to be consider'd.

An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Nathaniel Bloomfield

The priestess seem'd so great a lover of this sort of life, that her humour appear'd in every thing about her, and her hut might be truly term'd, sacred to poverty.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

After this, some friends that had observed a gravity in my face which might become an elderly man's wife (as they term'd it) and a mother-in-law, proposed a widower to me, that had four daughters, all old enough to be my sisters; but he had a great estate, was as fine a gentleman as ever England bred, and the very pattern of wisdom.

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901

Its a hundred and twenty steps to ye roofe and supported by noe pillars all Arch of Stone: You walke on ye Arch or Cradle as its term'd.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

After this, some friends that had observed a gravity in my face which might become an elderly man's wife (as they term'd it) and a mother-in-law, proposed a widower to me, that had four daughters, all old enough to be my sisters; but he had a great estate, was as fine a gentleman as ever England bred, and the very pattern of wisdom.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

Sandford might properly be term'd the Spagnolet of the Theatre, an excellent Actor in disagreeable

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

"Formerly, during the period term'd classic," says

Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

Voltaire term'd the Shaksperean works, "a huge dunghill"; Hamlet he described (to the Academy, whose members listen'd with approbation) as "the dream of a drunken savage, with a few flashes of beautiful thoughts."

Good-Bye my Fancy ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855