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well(-)diˈrected, ppl. a.
Aimed, addressed, guided, conducted, with skill and care.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xi. §2 With a number of well directed Pioners. 1694Locke Hum. Und. ii. xx. §18 (ed. 2) 123 The pleasure..of well directed study in the search..of Truth. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes iii. ii. 3 To hurl the well-directed spear. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 606 Any well-directed industry. 1781Cowper Expost. 239 They breath'd in faith their well directed pray'rs. 1800Hull Advertiser 7 June 2/4 The Penelope..whose well⁓directed fire..had shot away the main and mizentopmasts. 1836A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 2) 279 The power we possess of modifying the constitution by well-directed regimen is very great. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xii. III. 236 The Dartmouth poured on them a well directed broad⁓side. a1871Grote Eth. Fragm. ii. 36 If..we..explain it only as a well-directed choice and discretion on the part of the individual. |