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well(-)read, ppl. a.
1. Well-informed by reading, learned in (a subject). Also gen., versed or skilled (in).
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii, 170 This yong man..well read in Poetrie, And other bookes. 1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman-hater i. iii, A Gentleman, well read, deeply learned, and thoroughly grounded in the hidden knowledge of all Sallads and Pot-herbs whatsoever. 1623Massinger Dk. Milan iii. i, We embrace you, As one well read in all the points of honor. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. ii. 150 All the world holds him very well read in the Art of dissembling. 1700Dryden Fables, Pythag. Philos. 15 Then thus a Senior of the Place replies, (Well read, and curious of Antiquities). 1711Addison Spect. No. 8 ⁋7 As I am very well read in Waller, I repeated to her the four following Verses. 1756Burke Subl. & B. iv. xxiv, The author, so well read in human nature. 1772Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXII. 312 Not only a well-read naturalist, but an active sportsman. 1864Pusey Daniel (1876) 380 Well-read as he was in Greek. 1876Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig. Wks. (Bohn) III. 212 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
2. Of a book: Attentively perused; read in a proper or profitable way.
1865Ruskin Sesame ii. §77, I speak therefore of good novels only... Well read, indeed, these books have serious use. |