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单词 well-learned
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well-learnedadj.

(In sense 1)Brit. /ˌwɛlˈləːnᵻd/, U.S. /ˌwɛlˈlərnəd/ (In sense 3)Brit. /ˌwɛlˈləːnd/, /ˌwɛlˈləːnt/, U.S. /ˌwɛlˈlərnd/, /ˌwɛlˈlərnt/
Forms: see well adv. and n.4 and learn v.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., learned adj.; well adv., learn v.
Etymology: Partly < well adv. + learned adj., and partly < well adv. + the past participle of learn v. With sense 1 compare earlier well-leared adj.
1. Having sound knowledge or a good education; fully versed or thoroughly instructed in a subject. Now somewhat archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > intellectual command, mastery > [adjective]
well-learedeOE
well-learned1425
ripe1458
well-informeda1500
well-studied1530
travailed1551
great1552
learned1556
read1574
well-read1574
long on1875
1425 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 64 (MED) Alle þese astatys, by þe avys of a wel lerned man of þe lawe..to be paied by myn Executours.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 129 A sad and weel leerned clerk in moral philsophie.
1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 620 in Wks. (1931) II. 58 War ȝe weill lernit at luvis lair.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. v. 98 Wyth reuerend fathers and well learned Bishops. View more context for this quotation
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. xxiv, in Wks. (1662) 67 And for discharge of a Bishops Office, to be well minded is not enough, no not to be well learned also.
1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 21 He that thinks it the part of a well learned man..to be no stranger in the volumes of the Fathers.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxxiii. 336 A Man he was well learned in the Scripture.
1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia I. xix. 213 Surgeon Macpherson being well learnt in Northern Knowledge.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xii. 90 He's a weel-meanin' man, an' a weel-leern't.
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 205 She, well-learned in sin.
1918 G. Moore Story-teller's Holiday xli. 260 Adam was well learned in the ways of God.
2005 A. Norton Three Hands for Scorpio i. 13 Our mother was well-learned in healcraft and dealt promptly with our ailments.
2. poetic. Of a weapon: skilfully aimed. Obsolete. rare.The section from which quot. 1596 is taken is perhaps to be understood as a symbolic or allegorical representation of learning overcoming ignorance.
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the world > space > direction > [adjective] > given direction towards a mark > well-aimed
well-learned1596
well-aimed1598
well-guided1718
well-directed1743
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. sig. Ee5 His well learned speare Tooke surer hould. View more context for this quotation
3. Of a lesson, story, etc.: thoroughly or properly learned or memorized. Now also of an action or behaviour: that is made fully familiar or routine by means of repetition.
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1823 Morning Post 10 Jan. Unskilled in deep research he repeats his well learnt tale.
1876 Sunday School Jrnl. Dec. 266/2 He did not go about the country..and with little heart, but unfailing fluency of voice, rattle off, parrot-like, his well-learned lesson about the Holy Land to the ‘dear children’.
1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara Pref. in John Bull's Other Island 179 Perhaps not one who had not helped..to teach the dynamiter his well-learnt gospel of hatred and vengeance.
1973 Performance Objectives in Educ. 29/2 A well-taught, well-learned course of this type is truly a basic foundation for the educated man.
1982 H. A. Minden Two Hugs for Survival ix. 156 For Peter, the tantrum has become a well-learned behaviour, and almost any frustration sets it off.
2008 Amer. Scientist Nov. 462/3 An area [of the brain] that lights up as a person plans to perform a well-learned action.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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