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well-willed, a. Obs. exc. Sc. and north.
[See willed a. 2.]
Kindly or favourably disposed.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxxv. (1495) 727 Of good men and well wylled: dronkenesse makyth euyll men and wycked. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2186 Thogh I be nat wys, Wel-willed am I. 1484Rich. III. in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 166 Oure sayde soverayn Lord, as a wele⁓willed, diligent, and couragious Prince. 1530Palsgr. 329/1 Wellwylled, de bonne voulenté. 1598D. Ferguson Sc. Prov. (S.T.S.) 82 Nothing is difficile to a well willit man. 1891Atkinson Moorland Par. 65 This was but one of the many exploits of a like nature achieved by this well-willed being. 1899J. Spence Shetld. Folk-lore 212 The weel-willed man is the beggar's bridder.
b. Const. to, unto; also to (do something) or that (something be done).
1417E.E. Wills (1882) 38 Y pray hem þat þey be well wyllet..to here. c1440Alphabet of Tales 295 And þuf all he war not welewillid þerto, yit he was compellid to drynk. c1465Eng. Chron. (Camden 1856) 5 All the Cite was vnto thaym frendly and wellwillid. 1465Marg. Paston in P. Lett. II. 202 As for the woman that made the clayme,..he ys wellwyllyd that she shold be seyn to in the way of almys. c1473Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 27, I will be as wellwilled to doe things for your pleasure. 1477Rolls of Parlt. VI. 178/1 Wherunto the more partie of the inhabitaunts..be right welwilled and agreable. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxi. 254 Certayne yonge knyghtes..well wylled to do some dede of armes. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxii. 163 But see sic a han'le as that state o' maitters gies to them that's but owre weel-will't to be lords owre God's spiritual heritage. |