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1709. Shaftesb., Moralists, II. iv. 108. If a liberal Education has form’d in us … well-regulated Appetites, and worthy Inclinations.
1714. R. Fiddes, Pract. Disc., II. 250. The practice of all well regulated courts of justice in the world.
1812. J. Joyce, Sci. Dial., Astron., xii. II. 126. The equation of time … is the adjustment of the difference of time, as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun-dial.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, lviii. A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Major.
1862. Mrs. H. Wood, Mrs. Hallib., I. v. 27. It appeared, to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine proceeding.
1894. Pop. Sci. Monthly, June, 165. The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated American embryo city.
