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1. Having, or actuated by, a good disposition or intention; right-minded, loyal; † generously or favorably disposed, benevolent.
1522. More, De Quat. Noviss., Wks. 74/1. By whiche thy speache and talking, thou shalt not onely profite thy selfe as thou sholdest haue done by thy well minded sylence, but also [etc.].
1524. Q. Marg., in Mary A. E. Wood, Lett. Roy. Ladies (1846), I. 324. Your grace shall understand that there is many lords well-minded to the same.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. xiii. (1912), 88. An honest and well-minded gentleman.
1621. Sanderson, Serm., Ad Pop., iv. (1689), 211. By their affected poverty diverting the Charity of well-minded people from those that were truly poor.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., IV. § 233. Sober, well-minded men, who were real lovers of the peace of the kingdom.
1651. Gataker, Bale, in Fuller, Abel Rediv., 507. Being ransomed by certaine charitable and well-minded Merchants.
1824. Southey, Life (1849), I. 115. He was a well-minded boy, and has made a very respectable man.
1869. Trollope, He knew, etc. I. ii. 12. Had he been perfectly well-minded in the matter, he would have gone too.
2. Wishful or determined (to do something).
1859. Ld. Lytton, Wanderer, 243. Forty thousand weathercocks Each well-minded to keep his place.
