well-examinedadj.

1581 P. Wiburn Checke or Reproofe M. Howlets Shreeching f. 164 Your iolly tytles wherwith ye goe about to decke and set your Pope, are alreadie so well examined as I neede not stand therevpon.

a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) ix. 92 They finde themselves in a rectified, and well examined conscience, to have beene enemies to the publique.

1675 E. Phillips Theatrum Poetarum (new ed.) 108 I am apt to impute it rather to his complying with the modyfied an gallantish humour of the time, then to his own well examined judgment.

1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband i. i. 7 He is a Man too well-acquainted with the Female World, to be brought into a high Opinion of any one Woman, without some well-examin'd Proof of her Merit.

1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. lvi. 76 To descend to truth thro' the tedious progression of well-examined deductions, is considered as a reproach to the quickness of understanding.

1835 A. Smith Diary 26 June (1940) II. 87 If well examined there would be no difficulty in finding good roads.

1915 Fatherland (N.Y.) 17 Mar. 4/1 They can find sufficient material in most of the well-examined cases of atrocities.

2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Oct. d1 The complexities of being both black and a Redskins fan in this city are well-known and well-examined.