ppl. a. Obs. Well-disposed.
1535. [see GIVEN 2].
1579–80. North, Plutarch, Brutus (1595), 1053. Cassius … was Brutus familiar friend, but not so well giuen, and conditioned as he.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. i. 72. The Duke is vertuous, milde, and too well giuen, To dreame on euill, or to worke my downefall.
1607. Dekker & Webster, Westw. Hoe, II. ii. Why are you a burden to the worlds conscience, and an eie-sore to wel giuen men?
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, VII. 176. This said, the wel-giuen souldiers prayed.
