well-ledadj.

1544 T. Chaloner tr. St. J. Chrysostom Homilie sig. Cviiij [Abraham] neither iudged vertue vnauaylable, ne yet reputed his former life well led, to haue ben spent in vain.

1588 E. Aggas tr. F. de La Noue Politicke & Mil. Disc. xviii. 204 Footmen resolute and well led may passe any where.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 26 His few well led men came ever off with victory.

1678 W. Dillingham Serm. Funeral Lady Alston 26 A Survey of an holy and well-led Life.

1775 J. Howie Biographia Scoticana 157 The bishop began to commend him for his well-led life.

1794 Sun 18 Sept. Mountain has taken post as Leader of the Covent-Garden Band. It is needless to say that it is well led.

1838 United Service Jrnl. Jan. 43 The spirit and energy of which daring, confident, and well-led men are capable.

1884 W. O. Stoddard Abraham Lincoln xxix. 233 A well-led attack by a competent and disciplined force of the public enemy.

1945 H. A. Millis & R. E. Montgomery Organized Labor xv. 890 A well-organized, well-led, and experienced trade-union movement is an essential part of the foundation for that democracy in government in which we believe.

1973 K. Starr Americans & Calif. Dream (1986) i. 31 American life could take on for the first time a repose, a classical simplicity which..might prove the physical basis for the well-led life.

2012 A. J. Lambelet in S. Marble Scraping Barrel iii. 58 A hastily improvised levée en masse—no matter how enthusiastic its soldiers—could not compete with a well-trained, well-armed, and well-led army.