ppl. a. Obs. Having good sight or mental discernment.
c. 1522. Skelton, Why nat to Courte, 531. Haue ye nat harde this, How an one eyed man is Well syghted when He is amonge blynde men?
1613. Hayward, Will. I., 6. Hee was … of a piercing wit, blind in no mans cause, and well sighted in his owne.
1630. Lennard, trans. Charron’s Wisd., I. lix. (1670), 199. What good is it to a blind man, that his parents have been well-sighted?
1656. Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. lix. (1674), 77. Good Officers … known to be well-sighted in forbidding faults.
