well-reformedadj.

1548 F. Bryan tr. A. de Guevara Dispraise Life Courtier xiii. sig. i.viii The kynges houses were so well reformed [Fr. tant reformées, Sp. tan corregidas], the kynges themselfes so wise, and the gouernours so moderate, that [etc.].

1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 287 Let your friendes..giue eare..to your admonition, absenting them selues from all well reformed congregations.

1656 A. Cowley Pindarique Odes 63 in Poems The sacred cheare That new begins their well reformed Yeare.

1657 J. Gauden in J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee To Rdr. sig. ¶3 A bed-rid Church (whose once well reformed Religion seems not onely decayed, but dying and deplored).

1712 Old Story: Relig. Whigs 17 'Tis a fair Challenge to us, to look what sort of Reformers, and how well reformed, our Accusers are.

1780 Town & Country Mag. Nov. 598/2 This day, amongst all holy, pious, and well reformed Christians, is the greatest thanksgiving in the whole year.

1841 Ohio Observer (Hudson, Ohio) 10 June Your well reformed penitentiaries are endeavouring to extinguish the fires.

1853 Morning Post 5 Sept. 2/2 They had for years and generations their local jurisdictions, which, whether well reformed or not, were infinitely superior to what formerly prevailed.

1922 Mentor July 39/1 He became so well reformed that he did not only conduct his affairs well, but also he was of help to his fellow inmates.

2008 K. Stapebroek Love, Self-Deceit, & Money iii. 100 Fénelon's distinction..between a simple pre-modern society, a corrupted luxurious society, and a well-reformed modern monarchy.