ppl. a. [pa. pple. of BEHAVE: cf. learned, well-read, etc.] Conducted, mannered; usually with qualifying adv., as well-behaved, ill-behaved.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. i. 35. And gather by him, as he is behaued, If’t be th’ affliction of his loue or no.
1713. Guardian, No. 6, ¶ 4. Their servants well behaved.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. IV. iv. 167. The brown-locked, light-behaved, fire-hearted Demoiselle.
1858. W. Ellis, Vis. Madagascar, iv. 89. Well-behaved scholars.
