well-seen

“This is well-seen, but there are some who say they hold the key.”

The Price of Their Fears

“But Johns was infatuated with popular culture, and he wanted to find images which, as he put it, were so well-known that they were not well-seen: flags, targets, stuff like that.”

American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

“Boer woman, mind you, and no liar; the young wife of an upright and well-seen Burgher, who had his farm an easy four hours from here.”

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories

“Are we as senseless brutes that we should dash at the well-seen bars?”

A Dead March

“You call him actual, not ideal; there is truth in that too; and yet at bottom is not the whole truth rather this: The actual well-seen is the ideal?”

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I

“I am well-seen, though I say it, in sundry languages meet for your lordship, or any noble service, to teach divers tongues and other rare things.”

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6

“You call him _actual, _ not _ideal; _ there is truth in that too; and yet at bottom is not the whole truth rather this: The actual well-seen _is_ the ideal?”

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I

“But that is not enough; they must be skilful in all wisdom, and cunning, or well-seen in knowledge, and understanding science, such as were quick and sharp, and could give a ready and intelligent account of their own country and of the learning they had hitherto been brought up in.”

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)