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well-ˈrounded, ppl. a.
a. lit.
1752‘Sir H. Beaumont’ Crito 17 The Knee should be even, and well-rounded. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. iii. vi, Such things bring lines in well-rounded faces.
b. fig. (Cf. rounded 6, 6 b.) Of a person, his life: Complete and symmetrical. Of a period: Full and well turned.
18..Longfellow (Cent.) Something so complete and well⁓rounded in his..life. 1875Plumptre in Expositor I. 414 His well-rounded periods would be to such an one what the rhetorical morality of Cicero was to Augustine. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkback 277 Assuredly the preacher mistakes his errand..when he strives after fine phrases,..well⁓rounded periods. 1897Peery Gist of Japan 224 The great variety of work necessitates a well-rounded man. |