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well(-)inˈformed, ppl. a.
Well equipped with information; fully furnished with knowledge, whether of a special subject or of things in general; having a well-stored mind.
c1440[see informed ppl. a. 2 b]. c1611Chapman Iliad Ep. Ded. 94 Great Princes, well inform'd and deckt With gracious vertue. 1614[see informed ppl. a. 2 b]. 1752Chesterfield Lett. to Son 23 June, He is a very pretty and well-informed man. 1791Boswell Johnson an. 1783 (1904) II. 485 This great man..was yet well-informed in the common affairs of life. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, A well-informed mind..is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. 1827Sir J. Barrington Pers. Sk. I. 351 Colonel Burr was..a well-informed, sensible man. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. v. §20 The perfect and well-informed decision of Albert Durer and his fellow-workmen. 1863B. Woodcroft Brief Biogr. 18 Crompton..was intelligent, though not what is generally called ‘well-informed’. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin i. v, Her aunt, who was no doubt a well-informed woman, had been attending to her education.
absol.1824Landor Imag. Conv., Bacon & Hooker II. 65, I have observed, among the well informed and the ill informed, nearly the same quantity of infirmities and follies. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes iii, Not to impress the thoughtful and the well-informed, but the ignorant and heedless. 1922G. K. Chesterton Man who knew vii. 124 It startled the well-informed by being a new and fantastic idea they had never encountered. |