† a. Doing good, well-doing. Obs. b. Skilful fashioning or forging. c. Successful activity or operation.
1611. Norton’s Calvin’s Inst., Table of Contents X xx 1 b. Against all them which say that if this doctrine [of Predestination] take place, all endeuour of well working decaieth.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 79. According to the goodness and well working of the Iron, some prove of longer durance than other.
1879. Spencer, Data of Ethics, vi. § 34. 84. The well-working [of pleasure and pain] in essential matters is ignored; and the ill-working in unessential matters is alone recognized.
