ppl. a. Of good natural inclination or disposition; well-disposed.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. xxvii. (1912), 323. These words being spoken (like a furious storme) presently caried away their wel inclined braines.
1611. Rich, Honest. Age (1615), 12. Zelous, and well inclined married wiues.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., VII. 235. The well-inclin’d, And sacred order of Alcinous mind.
1683. H. Prideaux in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden), 185. We looke on him as a studious well-inclined yong Gentleman.
1709. Atterbury, Serm. (1726), II. 237. For the sake of those, who … may be well-inclin’d to Works of Mercy.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 207, ¶ 1. A well inclined young Man … must needs take Delight in being agreeable to his Elders.
1881. Gladstone, Lett. to Forster, 8 Sept., in R. B. O’Brien, Life Parnell (1898), I. 304. To reduce the following of Parnell by drawing away from him all well-inclined men.
