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well-ˈminded, a.
1. Having, or actuated by, a good disposition or intention; right-minded, loyal; † generously or favourably disposed, benevolent.
1522More De quat. Noviss. Wks. 74/1 By whiche thy speache and talking, thou shalt not onely profite thy selfe as thou sholdest haue done by thy well minded sylence, but also [etc.]. 1524Q. Marg. in Mary A. E. Wood Lett. Roy. Ladies (1846) I. 324 Your grace shall understand that there is many lords well-minded to the same. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. xiii. (1912) 88 An honest and well-minded gentleman. 1621Sanderson Serm., Ad Pop. iv. (1689) 211 By their affected poverty diverting the Charity of well-minded people from those that were truly poor. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iv. §233 Sober, well-minded men, who were real lovers of the peace of the kingdom. 1651Gataker Bale in Fuller Abel Rediv. 507 Being ransomed by certaine charitable and well-minded Merchants. 1824Southey Life (1849) I. 115 He was a well-minded boy, and has made a very respectable man. 1869Trollope He knew etc. I. ii. 12 Had he been perfectly well-minded in the matter, he would have gone too.
2. Wishful or determined (to do something).
1859Ld. Lytton Wanderer 243 Forty thousand weather⁓cocks Each well-minded to keep his place. |