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† 1. Fully equipped or furnished. Obs.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., II. i. 45. A man of soueraigne parts he is esteem’d: Well fitted in Arts, glorious in Armes.
1656. Cowley, Pindar. Odes, Resurrection, ii. Lo how the Years to come, a numerous and well-fitted Quire, All hand in hand do decently advance.
2. Exactly adjusted, shaped or suited.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XVIII. 758. A pond’rous helmet bright Well-fitted to his brows.
1839. Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard, III. ii. It was a night well fitted to their enterprise—calm, still, and profoundly dark.
1904. A. C. Fraser, Biogr. Philos., iv. 142. He [J. S. Mill] was calm and luminous in discourse; an easy flow of well-fitted words and compact sentences.
