(ppl.) a.
1. Of good make or fashion; well made.
1580. Blundevil, Art of Riding, I. iii. 3. His thighes large and long, with bones well fashioned.
a. 1700. Dryden, Ovid’s Art of Love, I. 579. Wear well-fashion’d Cloaths, like other Men.
1887. Morris, Odyss., XI. 108. When down in thy ship well-fashioned at last thou drawest anigh To the Three-horned Island.
† 2. Of polite manners or demeanor. Obs.
1611. Cotgr., Morigené,… well behaued, of good carriage, well fashioned.
1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, IV. xvii. 396. Behaving himselfe with so well-fashioned modesty.
1693. Locke, Educ., § 143 (1699), 259. First, a disposition of the Mind not to offend others; and, Secondly, the most acceptable, and agreeable way of expressing that Disposition. From the one, Men are called Civil; from the other Well-fashion’d.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, an. 1646 (Chandos), 189. His daughter, a pretty well-fashioned young woman.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 198, ¶ 2. A young Man of Two and twenty, well-fashioned, learned, genteel.
