well-conductedadj.

1590 R. Williams Briefe Disc. Warre 46 Commonlie the Cornets or Guydons charge one another if there be anie of both sides: if not, few horsmen wel conducted, will charge either trenches, or battailes of footmen.

1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 45 There is no Oratory of such force to gaine both men and women, as a strong well conducted Army, as this was.

1695 G. Burnet Ess. Mem. Late Queen 147 The Authority of a well-balanced and well-conducted Government: That should have maintained Property, and have asserted the generous Principles of the Freedom of human Nature.

1749 P. Francis in tr. Horace Art of Poetry in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles (new ed.) 216 (note) A regular well-conducted Piece.

1752 W. Mason Let. iii, in Elfrida p. ix The advantage the Audience receiv'd from a well-conducted Chorus.

1803 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1850) I. 479 A series of judicious and well-conducted experiments.

1842 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. iii. 147 Hence land, after a well-conducted fallow, is always more productive of good grain than when it has undergone any other preparation.

1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. 157 Every well-conducted restaurant nowadays is conducted on these principles.

1947 Pop. Mech. Feb. 201/1 In a well-conducted marionette show the customers never are intentionally made aware of the puppeteer.

2010 Milbank Q. 88 263 Data from well-conducted observational studies.

1772 R. Cumberland Fashionable Lover iii. 35 No, Mr. Tyrrel, mine's a sober well-conducted family: I'll have no coroner's inquest come within my doors.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iv. 28 Whether you consider me a highly virtuous..and well-conducted man in private life.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Sorrows of Werther 15 Charlotte..Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 302 Well-conducted and meritorious citizens.

1922 T. P. Giddings & E. L. Baker High School Music Teaching ii. 55 The offender should be put between two well-conducted pupils and allowed to absorb a little self-control from them.

1998 L. Gordon T. S. Eliot (2000) iii. 91 An exquisitely well-conducted student.