measured

Etymology

adj

1. That has been determined by measurement.
   He ran over a measured mile.
2. Deliberate but restrained.
   He argued in measured tones.
   This procedure was very tedious for me. Although she was definitely in a somnambulistic state, her answers were coming very slowly with carefully measured caution. 1989, Dolores Cannon, chapter 1, in Conversations with Nostradamus, page 8
3. (of poetry etc.) Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of measure