ppl. a. Aimed, addressed, guided, conducted, with skill and care.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xi. § 2. With a number of well directed Pioners.
1694. Locke, Hum. Und., II. xx. § 18 (ed. 2), 123. The pleasure … of well directed study in the search of Truth.
1743. Francis, trans. Hor., Odes, III. ii. 3. To hurl the well-directed spear.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 606. Any well-directed industry.
1781. Cowper, Expost., 239. They breath’d in faith their well directed pray’rs.
1800. Hull Advertiser, 7 June, 2/4. The Penelope … whose well-directed fire … had shot away the main and mizentopmasts.
1836. A. Combe, Physiol. Digestion (ed. 2), 279. The power we possess of modifying the constitution by well-directed regimen is very great.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xii. III. 236. The Dartmouth poured on them a well directed broadside.
a. 1871. Grote, Eth. Fragm., ii. 36. If … we … explain it only as a well-directed choice and discretion on the part of the individual.
