Well-found
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Well maintained and fully stocked and equipped.
"We grieve to see paupers, and such like, arriving from abroad; but when we behold a body of intelligent and well-found emigrants like these, arrived on our shores, we rejoice to extend to them the honest hand of welcome."
- 2 Welcome; appreciated.
"Having determin'd of the Vosces and To send for Titus Lartius, it remains, As the main point of this our after-meeting, To gratify his noble service that Hath thus stood for his country: therefore, Most reverend and grave elders, to desire please you, The present consul, and last general In our well-found successes, to report A little of the worthy work perform'd By Caius Marcius Coriolanus, whom We met here both to thank and to remember With honors like himself."
- 1 having a full array of suitable equipment or furnishings wordnet
Example
More examples"We grieve to see paupers, and such like, arriving from abroad; but when we behold a body of intelligent and well-found emigrants like these, arrived on our shores, we rejoice to extend to them the honest hand of welcome."
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