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1. Properly directed, managed or carried out.
1749. Francis, trans. Horace, Art P., 34, note. A regular well-conducted Piece.
1752. Mason, Elfrida, Lett. Drama, iii. p. ix. The advantage the Audience receiv’d from a well-conducted Chorus.
1803. Chalmers, in Life (1851), I. 479. A series of judicious and well-conducted experiments.
1842. J. Aiton, Dom. Econ. (1857), 185. Hence land, after a well-conducted fallow, is always more productive of good grain than when it has undergone any other preparation.
1884. E. Yates, Recoll., I. 157. Every well-conducted restaurant nowadays is conducted on these principles.
2. Displaying exemplary conduct, well-behaved.
1838. Dickens, Nickleby, iv. Whether you consider me a highly virtuous … and well-conducted man in private life.
1853. Thackeray, Sorrows of Werther, 15. Charlotte … Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 302. Well-conducted and meritorious citizens.
