ppl. a. [Cf. OE. wel-ʓelícod, glossing L. beneplacitum.] Regarded with much affection or approval. Also † well liked of.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1922), 12. This their well liked fellowship.
1670. Cotton, Espernon, I. IV. 174. To put himself into possession of his new, and well lik’d of charge.
1820. A. NcNay, Poet. Wks., 33 (E. D. D.). The herd came rinnin’ o’er the lea, His weel-liked cur to see.
1896. Ida M. Tarbell, in McClure’s Mag., VI. 446/1. He [James Shields] was … a good politician, and, on the whole, a very well-liked man.
