different between relaxed vs calmed

English

From relax +? -ed, originally after Latin relax?tus.

relaxed (comparative more relaxed, superlative most relaxed)

(obsolete, physiology) Made slack or feeble; weak, soft. [from 15th c.]
- 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale 1989, p. 54:
  It was a very wet morning. I woke relaxed and melancholy as in the country, and walked about an hour under cover, in the middle of the town […] .
Made more lenient; less strict; lax. [from 17th c.]
Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely. [from 18th c.]
(chiefly physics) Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium. [from 19th c.]
(physiology) Of a muscle: soft, not tensed. [from 19th c.]

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