ppl. a.
† 1. a. Used in the vocative (like welcome) to greet a person when met. Obs.
c. 1350. Ipomadon, 6715 (Kölbing). Well founde, mayde Imayne.
c. 1350. Libeaus Disc. (Ritson), 1660. The constable seyde, Well founde, Noble knyght of the table rounde.
† 2. Of tried goodness, merit or value; well-approved, commendable. Obs.
In quot. 1887 prob. an echo of Shakespeare’s use.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, II. i. 105. Gerard de Narbon was my father, In what he did professe, well found. Ibid. (1607), Cor., II. ii. 48. In our well-found Successes.
1887. Mrs. Lynn Linton, in Fortn. Rev., May, 728. Many [of the Athenian hetæræ] lived comparatively well-found lives.
3. Fully furnished or equipped.
1793. [see FOUND ppl. a. 2].
1864. Burton, Scot. Abr., II. ii. 144. The garrison is large and well found.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., x. He seemed very old, being over twenty, and well-found in beard.
1891. A. H. Markham, Sir J. Franklin, 301. This voyage proved that a well-found steamer, properly prepared and ably handled, could without great difficulty pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific, along the northern coast of Siberia.
