ppl. a. (lit. and fig.).
1615. Chapman, Odyss., V. 312. A faire wel polisht helme.
1625–8. trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., II. (1675), 246. Campian was … of a sweet Disposition, and a well-polished man.
1656. Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. xxxiii. (1674), 39. You have lived in the well-polisht Court of Rome.
1661. Waller, St. James’s Park, 57. Here a well-polisht Mall gives us the joy To see our Prince his matchless force imploy.
1717. Pope, Ep. Jervas, 40. This small, well-polish’d Gem, the work of years.
1853. Hickie, trans. Aristoph., II. 577. Say something clever and well-polished.
