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well-aˈppointed, ppl. a.
Properly equipped or fitted out.
1530Palsgr. 844/1 Well apoynted, bien a poynt. 1535Coverdale Jer. vi. 22 They ride vpon horses wel apointed to y⊇ batell agaynst the. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. i. 190 The gentle Arch-bishop of Yorke is vp, With well-appointed Powres. c1600Drayton Mis. Marg. clxxviii, Ten thousand valient well-appointed men. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Brutus iv, One would have thought t'had heard the morning crow, Or seen her well-appointed Star Come marching up the Eastern Hill afar. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 676 In him thy well-appointed proxy see, Arm'd for a work too difficult for thee. 1807Wordsw. White Doe 699 Nor wanted at this time rich store Of well-appointed chivalry. 1835Court Mag. VI. 166/2 The well-appointed silk, waterproof, ivory-handled, umbrella of his friend. 1864‘Annie Thomas’ D. Donne I. ii. 29 She saw that he had good horses and a well-appointed mail-phaeton. 1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 3 A well-appointed hotel.
Hence well-aˈppointedness.
1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 82 They have Breast-plates of Iron, which shows the courage of these Saracens, and their well-appointedness for War. 1890H. James Tragic Muse xxvi, He remembered too..her actual smartness, as London people would call it, her well-appointedness. |