well-endowedadj.

a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 135 (MED) It shalnot only be goode to owre prince, but also to vs selff, that he be well indowed.

1553 R. Burrant tr. Preceptes Cato (new ed.) i. sig. M.ii^v That wife semeth to me wel endowed, who is louing and obedient to her housebande.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. ii. 395 Many poore mens sons are singularly well endowed, and most eminent, and well-deseruing for their worth.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. iii. 276 Whilst the desire of Esteem, Riches, or Power, makes Men espouse the well endowed Opinions in Fashion.

1779 R. Jephson Law of Lombardy i. v. 10 I grant her well endow'd And in fair seeming most pre-eminent.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey xviii, in Iliad & Odyssey II. 335 A wife Well-qualitied and well-endow'd.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 344 I found myself a well endowed widow.

1870 J. Hullah Speaking Voice 4 A well-endowed but incomplete vocalist.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs vi. 109 There are in molluscs no true capillaries except in the advanced and well-endowed cephalopods.

1999 S. Heaney tr. Beowulf (2000) 88 I give thanks that I behold this treasure here in front of me, that I have thus been allowed to leave my people so well endowed on the day I die.

2005 J. M. Luxford Art & Archit. Eng. Benedictine Monasteries, 1300–1540 iii. 72 The well-endowed treasury, like the well-repaired monastery, [was] an unambiguous symbol of good governance.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 607/1 Whether dost thou relieue therby the holy man which is already in ioye, or y^t almes house that is so well indowed.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 327 What shall I speak of..the well endowed Schoole of Wotton Underhedge in Glocester shire, besides forty Chanteries founded by the Berkeleys.

1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) IV. 181 There is a fine and well-endowed Hospital for decay'd Townsmen of Dundee, where they are well taken care of, and provided for.

1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Amer. U.S. II. 180 At Hingham is a well-endowed school, which, in honour of its principal donor and founder, is called Derby School.

1868 Debater's Handbk. Controv. Topics 37/2 Are well-endowed professorships better for a country than richly revenued bishoprics?

1911 W. Barry Papacy & Mod. Times 18 The kings and nobles who had enriched the Church..thrust them into well-endowed sees; and created the enormous scandal of boy-bishops and even boy-Popes.

2012 Washington Times (Nexis) 10 Aug. 12 His pieces are affordable only for the wealthiest collectors and most well-endowed museums.

1942 W. H. Sheldon & S. S. Stevens Var. Temperament iv. 142 Boris was sexually well endowed, in the sense that he had large genitalia, and poorly endowed in the sense that his body was relatively insensitive.]

1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea v. 302 ‘I'm not rich.’.. ‘You are doubtless well-endowed... It's better, really... A lot of women think so.’

1968 in H. Greenwald & R. Greenwald Sex Life Lett. (1974) 79 By the age of ten, my member was already larger than that of a well-endowed adult.

1992 R. D. Edwards Clubbed to Death (1993) ii. 24 A marble Grecian youth, unclad, and well-endowed, wearing a provocative leer.

2009 T. Dean Unlimited Intimacy ii. 120 Mainstream gay porn..requires its performers to be either beautiful, superathletic, very well endowed, or preferably all three.

1951 Corsicana (Texas) Daily Sun 10 July 14/2 Most women aren't as well endowed as Liz [Taylor]. How should they go about buying a suit?

1968 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald- Times 30 Sept. m4/5 Traffic in St. Joseph hasn't been stopped by a shapely girl as it was on Wall Street but a well-endowed girl did disrupt one man's walk.

1989 Bella 29 Apr. 33/3 ‘I didn't marry you for your figure,’ he said, ‘I'd sooner have you alive and flat-chested than dead and well-endowed.’

2011 Daily Tel. 27 July 27/4 Though Barbie's proportions were adjusted over the years, she still remained impossibly well-endowed.