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well-framed, ppl. a. Well shaped, fashioned, constructed, or composed.
a1586Sidney Arcadia v. (1922) 146 Like a man whose best building was a well-framed conscience. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iii. xi. 188 As soone as I shall come to shore..some wel-framed lye shall happely bring me to her. 1718Prior 2nd Hymn Callim. 73 In the well-fram'd Models,..Thou shew'dst, where Towers or Battlements should rise. 1791Cowper Iliad ix. 70 Yet when thy speech is to the Kings of Greece It is well framed and prudent. 1876Hardy Ethelberta xxxv, A well-framed reflective man with a grey beard. |