well-judged, ppl. a.
Marked by sound judgement, judicious; wisely estimated, correctly calculated.
| 1725 Berkeley Proposal Wks. III. 230 An extensive and well-judged charity. 1780 Cowper On Burning Ld. Mansfield's Libr. 7 The well-judg'd purchase. 1841 Elphinstone Hist. India II. 59 His next measure..was perfectly rational and well-judged. 1868 Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 325 A vast crop, that..can be come at, not at all by hurried snatching, but only by a well-judged patient process. 1895 Daily News 7 Sept. 7/3 Stoddart being out to a well-judged catch at long-on. |
Hence well-ˈjudgedly, adv.
| 1768 F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 18 Never was parent so properly, so well-judgedly affectionate! |