ppl. a. Well equipped with information; fully furnished with knowledge, whether of a special subject or of things in general; having a well-stored mind.
c. 1440. [see INFORMED ppl. a. 2 b].
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, Ep. Ded. 94. Great Princes, well inform’d and deckt With gracious vertue.
1614. [see INFORMED ppl. a. 2 b].
1752. Chesterf., Lett. to Son, 23 June. He is a very pretty and well-informed man.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, an. 1783 (1904), II. 485. This great man … was yet well-informed in the common affairs of life.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, i. A well-informed mind … is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice.
1827. Sir J. Barrington, Pers. Sk., I. 351. Colonel Burr was … a well-informed, sensible man.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Painters, IV. V. v. § 20. The perfect and well-informed decision of Albert Durer and his fellow-workmen.
1863. B. Woodcroft, Brief Biogr., 18. He [Crompton] read little, and that mostly on polemical subjects, and was intelligent, though not what is generally called ‘well-informed.’
1898. Watts-Dunton, Aylwin, I. v. Her aunt, who was no doubt a well-informed woman, had been attending to her education.
absol. 1824. Landor, Imag. Conv., Bacon & Hooker, II. 65. I have observed, among the well informed and the ill informed, nearly the same quantity of infirmities and follies.
1842. Dickens, Amer. Notes, iii. Not to impress the thoughtful and the well-informed, but the ignorant and heedless.
1922. G. K. Chesterton, Man who knew, vii. 124. It startled the well-informed by being a new and fantastic idea they had never encountered.
