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well-ˈmannered, a.
†1. Endowed with good morals, displaying virtuous conduct and behaviour. Obs.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xi. 260 A mayde wel ymanered, of good men yspronge. c1400Destr. Troy 6320 Patroclus, þe proud kyng, was..Wel manert & meke. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xxv. 37 Hou swete it is..to se fervent & deuoute breþren & wel manerd [bene morigeratos] & under discipline. a1475Ashby Dicta Philos. 113 Wele manered people bene of goode lif. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 45 Whiche were in theyr conuersacyon ryght honest & well manerd. 1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. 78 In Chirches well ordered and well mannered [In ecclesiis bene institutis atque moratis] there was [etc.]. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 235 A man quha feiret God, and Was Weil maneret, and of singular conditiounis [singulari morum probitate praedito]. 1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 382 To nurse you vp in a ciuil & well-mannered country.
2. Displaying good manners, courteous.
1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. iii. (1870) 132 The people of the Englyshe pale be metely wel manerd,..but naturally they be testy. 1574Hellowes Guenara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 74 Haue a care to be well manered: for with good manners, more than with any other thing we withdrawe our enimies, and do susteine our friends. 1682Dryden Medall Ep. to Whigs, By which well-mannerd and charitable Expressions, I was certain of his Sect, before I knew his name. 1693― Juv. Ded. (1697) p. lxv, A Well-manner'd Court-Slave. 1714Mrs. Manley Adv. Rivella 38, I was too well manner'd to take the Black, and leave none to attend your Ladyship. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 227 Where's your well-manner'd Deceiver gone, Child? says she. 1847Mrs. Gore Castles in Air vi, Though good-looking, and even well-mannered, because courteous and unaffected, they had no pretension to be ladies. 1847Lytton Lucretia i. i, The boy..was so lively, yet so well mannered.
absol.1856Lever Martins of Cro' Martin xxiii. 244, I have given up association with the well-bred and the well-mannered, to rub shoulders with the coarse-minded, the rough-hearted, and the vulgar. |