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well-conˈditioned, a.
1. Of good disposition, morals, or behaviour; having good ‘conditions’ or qualities; right-minded.
c1482Monk Evesham (Arb.) 75 He yat was so honeste of leuyng and wele condycyonde in hys demening. a1500Promp. Parv. 521/1 (MSS. K., H.) Well condiciond or maneryd, morosus, vel bene morigeratus. a1500Flower & Leaf 581 Alle that good and wel-condicioned be. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 30 Their King (then, sixteene yeares old, and well-conditioned). 1814Wordsw. Excurs. v. p. 241 See, in this well conditioned Soul, A Third To match with your good Couple. 1835Poe Hans Pfaall (init.), The well-conditioned city of Rotterdam. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Worship Wks. (Bohn) II. 398 See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. 285 (M. Aurelius) They sincerely regarded it [Christianity] much as well-conditioned people, with us, regard Mormonism. 1880Froude Bunyan vii. 91 This book is wrought into the mind and memory of every well-conditioned English or American child. 1905R. Garnett Shaks. 56 And, for thy full assurance, I have feigned her Contrite and well-conditioned at the last.
2. a. Having a good physical condition; being in a sound, healthy, or satisfactory state.
a1613Ralegh Let. to Pr. Henry Sceptick, etc. (1651) 128 In a well conditioned Ship, these things are chiefly required. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. I. 240 Not a barrell that was missing, and..they were sound and well-conditioned. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 541 Father Simon..was a jolly well condition'd Man, very free in his Conversation. 1725Bradley's Family Dict. II. s.v. Sugar, The other well-condition'd Boilings. 1753–4Richardson Grandison II. xxiii. 172 A pretty estate, which, tho' not large, was well-conditioned, and capable of improvement. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 5 The Goods are arrived and brought a-shore safe and well-conditioned at Ancona. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunters xxvii. 205 The devoted horse is in fact a well-conditioned animal. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xix, Surveying with an eye of satisfaction his..well-conditioned cattle.
b. spec. in Surg.
1672Wiseman Wounds ii. iii. 12 If you judge the Wound to be so well conditioned that there is neither fear of Putrefaction nor Mortification. 1676― Surg. ii. i. 165 If the Constitution be good, and the Serum well-conditioned. 1883Ogilvie (Annandale), Well-conditioned,..in surg. being in a state tending to health; as, a well-conditioned wound or sore.
c. Surveying and Math. Such that a small error in measurement or change in data gives rise to only a small change in the calculated result.
1882J. L. Robinson Treat. Marine Surveying viii. 141 If the equilateral triangles are not obtainable, then they must be as ‘well-conditioned’ as possible, i.e. the angles must lie between 30° and 75°. 1952D. R. Hartree Numerical Analysis viii. 155 The normal equations are less well-conditioned than the original equations. 1973C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. vi. 261 Is the problem of computing the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, given the other two sides, well-conditioned?
3. Established on good terms or conditions.
1645Fuller Gd. Th. in Bad T. iv. vi. 205 A wel-conditioned Peace. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lxviii, An irksome submission to restraint, only made bearable by his thinking of it as a means of by-and-by securing a well-conditioned freedom. |