ppl. a. a. lit.
1752. ‘Sir H. Beaumont,’ Crito, 17. The Knee should be even, and well-rounded.
1860. Geo. Eliot, Mill on Fl., III. vi. Such things bring lines in well-rounded faces.
b. fig. (Cf. ROUNDED 6, 6 b.) of a person, his life: Complete and symmetrical. Of a period: Full and well turned.
1853. Longfellow, Jrnl., 7 Jan., Wks. 1891, XIII. ix. 247–8 (Cent.). There was something so complete and well-rounded in his [Kant’s] life in Königsberg.
1875. Plumptre in Expositor, I. 414. His well-rounded periods would be to such an one what the rhetorical morality of Cicero was to Augustine.
1889. Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 277. Assuredly the preacher mistakes his errand … when he strives after fine phrases,… well-rounded periods.
1897. Peery, Gist of Japan, 224. The great variety of work necessitates a well-rounded man.
