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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 com·posed /-ˈpozd/
 (a.)鎮靜的,沈著的

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 composed
 排版後

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Com·pose v. t. [imp. & p. p. Composed p. pr. & vb. n. Composing.]
 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
    Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.   --Bp. Sprat.
 2. To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
 Their borrowed gold composed
 The calf in Oreb.   --Milton.
    A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions.   --I. Watts.
 3. To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.
 Let me compose
 Something in verse as well as prose.   --Pope.
    The genius that composed such works as the =\“Standard” and “Last Supper”.\=   --B. R. Haydon.
 4. To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
    In a peaceful grave my corpse compose.   --Dryden.
 How in safety best we may
 Compose our present evils.   --Milton.
 5. To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
 Compose thy mind;
 Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.   --Dryden.
 6. Print. To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Com·posed a. Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.
 The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate,
 Composed his posture, and his look sedate.   --Pope.
 -- Com*pos*ed*ly adv. -- Com*pos*ed*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 composed
      adj 1: made up of individual elements; "if perception is seen as
             composed of isolated sense data..."
      2: serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially
         in times of stress; "the performer seemed completely
         composed as she stepped onto the stage"; "I felt calm and
         more composed than I had in a long time" [ant: discomposed]