Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tamed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tame \Tame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Taming}.] [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G.
z["a]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See
{Tame}, a.]
1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle
and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a
wild beast.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited
into savegeness and stubbornness. --Macaulay.
2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride
or passions of youth.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tamed
adj 1: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame
animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: {tame}]
[ant: {wild}]
2: brought from wildness; "the once inhospitable landscape is
now tamed"
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