well-modelledwell-modeledadj.

1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. Ep. to Rdr. sig. A^v Where Government..is not at a loss, if it be well modelled, as in Venice, the Proposers..are very few.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iv. 33 Natures lamps being snuft to death, he lay A night-piec'd draught of once well-modell'd clay.

1703 J. Hay Sound & Solid Reason Against Presbyterian Prints 14 We had a King bigotly Popish, and a well moddel'd Army under his Command.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Mem. Abuses Church in Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1904) II. 340 We enjoy the purity of Religion under a well modelled government.

1797 Monthly Rev. Mar. 322 He distinguished himself in the Constituent Assembly, by an inviolable attachment to the cause of freedom; by a well-modelled eloquence; by [etc.].

1810 E. Moor Hindu Pantheon 44 I recollect once seeing at Poona a well modelled group..representing Crishna plaiting the three locks descending from the head of Radha.

1850 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 13 349/1 A well-modelled lion's head conceals the spout.

1922 E. Phillpotts Red Redmaynes i. 9 He was a well-modelled man of great physical strength.

1988 P. Pal Indian Sculpt. II. 215/2 On one side of the lotus base is a diminutive, well-modeled kneeling figure of the lady who dedicated this image.

2012 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 15 Dec. 32 Unlike some crude pottery examples, these are particularly well modelled.