ppl. a. Marked by sound judgment, judicious; wisely estimated, correctly calculated.

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1725.  Berkeley, Proposal, Wks. III. 230. An extensive and well-judged charity.

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1780.  Cowper, On Burning Ld. Mansfield’s Libr., 5.

        And MURRAY sighs o’er Pope and Swift,
  And many a treasure more,
The well-judg’d purchase and the gift
  That grac’d his letter’d store.

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1841.  Elphinstone, Hist. India, II. 59. His next measure … was perfectly rational and well-judged.

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1868.  Geo. Eliot, Ess. (1884), 325. A vast crop, that … can be come at, not at all by hurried snatching, but only by a well-judged patient process.

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1895.  Daily News, 7 Sept., 7/3. Stoddart being out to a well-judged catch at long-on.

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  Hence Well-judgedly adv.

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1768.  Miss Burney, Early Diary (1889), I. 18. Never was parent so properly, so well-judgedly affectionate!

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