ppl. a.
1. That has received due heed or consideration; carefully reflected on.
1769. Burrow, Rep. K. B. (1776), IV. 2347. A solemn well-considered Determination.
1774. Burke, Sp. Amer. Tax., Sel. Wks. 1897, I. 107. We besought the King, in that well-considered address, to inquire into treasons.
1784. Cowper, Task, V. 75. The cock … wading at their head With well-consider’d steps.
1860. Geo. Eliot, Mill on Fl., III. iii. Mrs. Deane was a thin-lipped woman, who made small well-considered speeches on peculiar occasions.
1865. [see CONSIDERED ppl. a. 2].
2. Highly esteemed.
1886. Stevenson, Kidnapped, xii. 112. He … was a well-considered poet in his own tongue.
