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  1.  Produced or devised by careful study.

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1644.  Milton, Educ., 7. While … the whole Symphony with artfull and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well studied cords of some choise composer.

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1717.  Pope, Epist. Jervas, 33. Here thy well-study’d marbles fix our eye.

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1853.  Kingsley, Hypatia, xxii. Orestes … waved his hand for silence, and began his well-studied oration.

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1855.  Paley, Æschylus, Pref. p. xxiv. The well-studied wisdom of iambic verses.

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  † 2.  Of a person: Well read, learned. Also, versed or proficient in (a subject). Obs.

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1596, 1602.  [see STUDIED 2].

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1639.  Fuller, Holy War, II. ii. 45. An excellent book-man in reading of men, and otherwise well studied.

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1651.  Fuller, etc., Abel Rediv., Bolton, 587. He was also well studyed in Metaphysicks, Mathematicks, and School-Divinity.

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1707.  Norris, Treat. Humility, i. 9. A well-studied Divine.

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1810.  [see STUDIED 2].

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