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well-fought, ppl. a.
†1. Inured to fight. Obs.
1598Chapman Seven Iliads v. [ix.] 90 The Curets wars did hold With the well-fought Etolians [αἰτωλοὶ µενεχάρµαι].
2. Valiantly contested.
1717Tickell Epist. fr. Lady to Gent at Avignon 74 Our Sex has..purchased Fame in many a well-fought Street. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 401 Oh! had he perisht on some well⁓fought day. 1761Foote Lyar i. ii. (1786) 17, I returned to reap the harvest of the well-fought field. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xx, Who in the well-fought conflict fell. 1818Newman Poems (1905) 48 The strange events of many a well-fought day. |