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† 1. Inured to fight. Obs.
1598. Chapman, Seven Iliads, I. [IX.] 90. The Curets wars did hold With the well-fought Etolians [Αἰτωλοἰ μενεχάρμαι].
2. Valiantly contested.
1717. Tickell, Epist. fr. Lady to Gent at Avignon, 74. Our Sex has … purchased Fame in many a well-fought Street.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIV. 401. Oh! had he perisht on some well-fought day.
1761. Foote, Lyar, I. ii. (1786), 17. I returned to reap the harvest of the well-fought field.
1814. Scott, Lord of Isles, IV. xx. Who in the well-fought conflict fell.
1818. Newman, Poems (1905), 48. The strange events of many a well-fought day.
1915. Evening Jrnl. (Wilmington, DE), 31 March, 4/5. History is full of instances in which nations might have won substantial returns for well-fought wars if they had only seized upon the proper instant for making peace.
