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1. of good disposition, morals or behavior; having good ‘conditions’ or qualities; right-minded.
c. 1482. Monk Evesham (Arb.), 75. He yat was so honeste of leuyng and wele condycyonde in hys demening.
a. 1500. Promp. Parv., 521/1 (MSS. K., H.). Well condiciond or maneryd, morosus, vel bene morigeratus.
a. 1500. Flower & Leaf, 581. Alle that good and wel-condicioned be.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 30. Their King (then, sixteene yeares old, and well-conditioned).
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., V. p. 241. See, in this well conditioned Soul, a Third To match with your good Couple.
1835. Poe, Hans Pfaall (init.). The well-conditioned city of Rotterdam.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life, Worship, Wks. (Bohn), II. 398. See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.
1865. M. Arnold, Ess. Crit., 285. (M. Aurelius) They sincerely regarded it [Christianity] much as well-conditioned people, with us, regard Mormonism.
1880. Froude, Bunyan, vii. 91. This book is wrought into the mind and memory of every well-conditioned English or American child.
1905. R. Garnett, W. Shakespeare, 56.
| And, for thy full assurance, I have feigned her | |
| Contrite and well-conditioned at the last. |
2. Having a good physical condition; being in a sound, healthy or satisfactory state.
a. 1613. Ralegh, Lett. to Pr. Henry, Sceptick, etc. (1651), 128. In a well conditioned Ship, these things are chiefly required.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 240. Not a barrell that was missing, and … they were sound and well-conditioned.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, II. (Globe), 541. Father Simon … was a jolly well condition’d Man, very free in his Conversation.
1725. Bradley’s Family Dict., II. s.v. Sugar, The other well-condition’d Boilings.
1753–4. Richardson, Grandison, II. xxiii. 172. A pretty estate, which, tho’ not large, was well-conditioned, and capable of improvement.
1755. Magens, Insurances, II. 5. The Goods are arrived and brought a-shore safe and well-conditioned at Ancona.
1851. Mayne Reid, Scalp Hunters, xxvii. 205. The devoted horse is in fact a well-conditioned animal.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer, xix. Surveying with an eye of satisfaction his … well-conditioned cattle.
b. spec. in Surg.
1672. Wiseman, Wounds, II. iii. 12. If you judge the Wound to be so well conditioned that there is neither fear of Putrefaction nor Mortification. Ibid. (1676), Surg., II. i. 165. If the Constitution be good, and the Serum well-conditioned.
1883. Ogilvie (Annandale), Well-conditioned,… in surg. being in a state tending to health; as, a well-conditioned wound or sore.
3. Established on good terms or conditions.
1645. Fuller, Gd. Th. in Bad T., IV. vi. 205. A wel-conditioned Peace.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Deronda, lxviii. An irksome submission to restraint, only made bearable by his thinking of it as a means of by-and-by securing a well-conditioned freedom.
