well-appointedadj.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. lxxxx^v/2 They toke their way to entre into Parys by the gate saynt Honoure, and sodenly as they went, they founde thenglysshmen in a lowe way, they were a foure hundred well apoynted.

1588 J. Aske Elizabetha Triumphans 17 Twise-tenne hundred well appointed Horsse, To serue with Launce.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) i. i. 189 The gentle Arch-bishop of Yorke is vp With well appointed Powres.

1627 M. Drayton Miseries Queene Margarite in Battaile Agincourt 100 Ten thousand valient well-appointed men.

1656 A. Cowley Brutus in Pindaric Odes iv One would have thought t'had heard the morning crow, Or seen her well-appointed Star Come marching up the Eastern Hill afar.

1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 44 This General he sent with a well-appointed Army, to oppose the Moors.

1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 676 In him thy well-appointed proxy see, Arm'd for a work too difficult for thee. View more context for this quotation

1835 Court Mag. 6 166/2 The well-appointed silk, waterproof, ivory-handled, umbrella of his friend.

1864 A. Thomas Denis Donne I. ii. 29 She saw that he had good horses and a well-appointed mail-phaeton.

1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 3 A well-appointed hotel.

1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) III. 214/2 A well-appointed billiard room, simply furnished, and with only a few sporting prints hung upon the walls.

1947 ‘P. Wentworth’ Wicked Uncle xi. 67 When Gladys had left her in the comfortable, well-appointed bedroom she walked slowly towards the hearth.

2010 Belfast Tel. Home Finder (Nexis) 15 Apr. 30 Most house hunters dream about walking into an incredibly well-appointed house, where there is little or no work to do.

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 82 They have Breast-plates of Iron, which shows the courage of these Saracens, and their well-appointedness for War.

1890 H. James Tragic Muse xxvi He remembered too..her actual smartness, as London people would call it, her well-appointedness.

1995 A. Alcock tr. J. Assmann Egyptian Solar Relig. in New Kingdom (2009) vii. 205 The Teaching for Merikare, which praises the well-appointedness of the world and regards creation and the course of the sun as having been made for the sake of human beings.