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well-learned, ppl. a. Now rare.
Having sound knowledge or instruction; deeply read or versed (in a subject).
1426Paston Lett. I. 25 Maister Iohn Blodwelle, a weel lerned man holden. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xx. 129 A sad and weel leerned clerk in moral philsophie. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. v. 100 With reuerend Fathers and well-learned Bishops. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. xxiv. §5 And for discharge of a Bishops Office, to be well minded is not enough, no not to be well learned also. 1641Milton Prel. Episc. Wks. 1851 III. 90 He that thinks it the part of a well learned man..to be no stranger to the volumes of the Fathers. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxxiii. 336 A Man he was well learned in the Scripture. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xii. 90 He's a weel-meanin' man, an' a weel-leern't. 1887Morris Odyss. xi. 432 She, well-learned in sin.
b. Of a weapon: Skilfully directed. poet.
1596Spenser F.Q. vi. vii. 11 His well learned speare Tooke surer hould. |