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c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, IV. 350. His well-train’d Athenian troopes.
1618. Gainsford, Glory Eng., II. ii. 164. A hundred well trained and ordered souldiers will beat a thousand of them.
1683. J. Reid, Scots Gard’ner (1907), 103. Well-trained trees in a nurserie.
1735. Somerville, Chase, I. 297. A pilf’ring Race; well-train’d and skill’d in all the Mysteries of Theft.
1847. Disraeli, Tancred, II. xi. The well-trained ear of this guardian of the gate.
1868. Ruskin, Pol. Econ. Art, ii. § 105. A well trained youth.
1894. Lester F. Ward, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, June, 184. Well-broken horses and well-trained dogs transmit these qualities to their offspring.
