ppl. a. Properly equipped or fitted out.
1530. Palsgr., 844/1. Well apoynted, bien a poynt.
1535. Coverdale, Jer. vi. 22. They ride vpon horses wel apointed to ye batell agaynst the.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., I. i. 190. The gentle Arch-bishop of Yorke is vp, With well-appointed Powres.
c. 1600. Drayton, Mis. Marg., clxxviii. Ten thousand valient well-appointed men.
1656. Cowley, Pindar. Odes, Brutus, iv. One would have thought t’ had heard the morning crow, Or seen her well-appointed Star Come marching up the Eastern Hill afar.
1784. Cowper, Tiroc., 676. In him thy well-appointed proxy see, Arm’d for a work too difficult for thee.
1807. Wordsw., White Doe, 699. Nor wanted at this time rich store Of well-appointed chivalry.
1835. Court Mag., VI. 166/2. The well-appointed silk, waterproof, ivory-handled, umbrella of his friend.
1864. ‘Annie Thomas,’ D. Donne, I. ii. 29. She saw that he had good horses and a well-appointed mail-phaeton, so she concluded he had plenty of money.
1889. G. Findlay, Eng. Railway, 3. A well-appointed hotel.
Hence Well-appointedness.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 82. They have Breast-plates of Iron, which shows the courage of these Saracens, and their well-appointedness for War.
1890. H. James, Tragic Muse, II. xxvi. 455. He remembered too … her actual smartness, as London people would call it, her well-appointedness.
