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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

well-seen en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) Having seen a lot; accomplished, experienced.
    • May it please your grace to take note of a gentleman, well seen, deeply read, and throughly grounded in the hidden knowledge of all sallads and pot-herbs whatsoever. 1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
    • All sixe well seene in armes, and prou'd in many a fight 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:

Forms

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more well-seen Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most well-seen Degree=Sup lexicographic