ppl. a.

1

1613.  Zouche, Dove, B 1 b. Like Natures rarest workmanship, the Eye, The well contriued instrument of seeing.

2

1621.  [see SQUARE sb. 19 b].

3

1715.  Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), II. 56. The well-contriv’d Stair-case of the Castle of Chambor.

4

1784.  Cowper, Task, III. 603. Nor taste alone and well-contriv’d display Suffice to give the marshall’d ranks the grace of their complete effect.

5

1808.  Forsyth, Beauties Scot., V. 23. A deep large well-contrived ditch secures it from the north.

6