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  † 1.  Well provided or furnished. Const. of. Obs.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1011. O selenes es it [Paradise] wel sene.

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c. 1450.  [see SEEN 1 c].

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  2.  Skilled, versed, proficient in (some subject or affair). Now arch.

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1528.  [see SEEN 2].

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c. 1545.  J. Heywood, Four P. (W. Copland), B j. Syr, ye seme wel sene in womens causes.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 80. Matthiolus a man otherwyse well sene in symples.

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1639.  Fuller, Holy War, II. xiv. 63. He was … excellently well seen in all martiall affairs.

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a. 1676.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., 13. A man well seen in Natural Causes and Effects.

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1681.  W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 1107. Well-seen in a business, callentissimus.

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1759, 1886.  [see SEEN 2].

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  † 3.  Plainly visible, evident. Obs.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 66. Now be we caytyues, as it is wel seene.

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1535.  Coverdale, Ps. lxvii[i]. 24. It is well sene (o God) how thou goest.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1922), 20. Her perfections then should have beene as well seene as Pamelas.

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1725.  Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., I. i. Daftly wad ye hide Your well-seen love and dorty Jenny’s pride.

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