Meanings
adjectivewell-seen (comparative more well-seen, superlative most well-seen)
comparative more well-seen · superlative most well-seen
- idiomaticobsoleteHaving seen a lot; accomplished, experienced.
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 51 more example
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
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