ppl. a. Well shaped, fashioned, constructed or composed.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, V. (1922), 146. Like a man whose best building was a well-framed conscience.
1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, III. xi. 188. As soone as I shall come to shore … some wel-framed lye shall happely bring me to her.
1718. Prior, 2nd Hymn Callim., 73. In the well-fram’d Models,… Thou shew’dst, where Towers or Battlements should rise.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, IX. 70. Yet when thy speech is to the Kings of Greece It is well framed and prudent.
1876. Hardy, Ethelberta, xxxv. A well-framed reflective man with a grey beard.
