ppl. a.
1. Carefully and skillully controlled, handled, carried on, or dealt with.
1665. Waller, Upon H. M. New Buildings, 25. From a confin’d, well-manag’d Store, You both employ, and feed the Poor.
1677. Dryden, State Innoc., I. 5. A well-manag’d War.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 800. When his vote, Well-manag’d, shall have earn’d its worthy price.
1842. W. C. Taylor, Tour Manuf. Districts Lancs., 137. The operatives in a well-managed country mill.
1845. Florist’s Jrnl., 211. A collection of 15 stove and greenhouse plants … which contained many well-managed plants.
1876. Miss Yonge, Womankind, iii. 17. Many well-managed children are uncomfortable if they do not repeat ‘their Catechism’ straight through on the Sunday.
1884. E. Yates, Recoll., I. 203. In those days the little Adelphi was a popular and well-managed resort.
2. Of a horse (see MANAGED 1).
1697. Dryden, Æneis, X. 1226. His Courser … Well mouth’d, well manag’d.
1814. Scott, Wav., xiii. The Baron … mounted on an active and well-managed horse.
