ppl. a. a. of persons and material things.
c. 1520. W. Walter, Guystarde & Syg. (Roxb.), A iij. Of shape and persone she was well fourmed.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1922), 58. The kissing of her welformed mouth.
1645. Waller, Poems, Palamede to Zelinde, 1 Fairest piece of well form’d earth, Vrge not thus your haughty Birth.
1653. R. Sanders, Physiogn., 159. The well formed head is like a Mallet or a Sphear.
1788. Mrs. Hughes, Henry & Isab., xviii. II. 88. Not a pleasing view,… or a well-formed tree, was passed without furnishing matter for her observation.
1805. Wordsw., Prelude, VII. 206. A range Of well-formed characters, with chalk inscribed Upon the smooth flat stones.
1831. G. P. R. James, Phil. Augustus, iv. A man of thirty-two or thirty-three years of age, tall, well-formed, handsome.
1863. A. C. Ramsay, Phys. Geog., 160. Well-formed flint hatchets.
1883. D. C. Murray, Hearts, xi. He had a large and well-formed body, plump but not corpulent.
b. of immaterial things.
1643. Dorney (title), A briefe and exact Relation of … Passages that hapned in the late well-formed (and as valiently defended) Seige laid before the City of Glocester.
1725. Watts, Logic, IV. Introd. A well-formed Proposition, or a just Argument.
1746. Francis, Horace, A. P., 230. The Child, who now with firmer Footing walks, And with unfaultering, well-form’d Accents talks.
1759. Goldsm., Pres. State Pol. Learn., xi. (Globe), 444/2. In a well-formed education a course of history should ever precede a course of ethics.
1787. Burns, Prol. spoken by Woods, 23. Well-form’d taste and sparkling wit.
