well-ˈthriven, ppl. a.
| c 1375 Cursor M. 14806 (Fairf.) Þis man is wele þriuen [Cott. fast es he throd and thriuen]. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1768) II. 7 Then I have a quarrel against his face, though in his person, for a well-thriven man, tolerably genteel. 1791 Cowper Iliad xviii. 698 A well-thriven ox. |