ppl. a. Displaying good conduct or manners; decorous.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., II. i. 59. Hee … gaue such orderly and wel-behaued reproofe to al vncomelinesse.
1633. Ford, ’Tis Pity, II. vi. A very modest welbehau’d young Maide.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 235. His sons were very pretty, wellbehaved youths.
1863. Kingsley, Water-Bab., iii. 126. I have met one or two creatures like you before, and found them very agreeable and well-behaved.
absol. 1828. P. Cunningham, N. S. Wales (ed. 3), II. 253. To give all due encouragement to the well-behaved.
