Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Highly accomplished; expert; skilful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Having seen much; hence, accomplished; experienced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Having
seen much; hence,accomplished ,experienced .
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Examples
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This is well-seen, but there are some who say they hold the key.
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This is well-seen, but there are some who say they hold the key.
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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.
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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 Perceval Gibbon 1902
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Are we as senseless brutes that we should dash at the well-seen bars?
A Dead March 1895
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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 Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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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 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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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 Thomas Carlyle 1838
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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) 1721
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