well-ˈweaponed, ppl. a.
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 2479 He..bad him nimen him feres mide, Wel wopnede men. c 1425 Eng. Conq. Ireland 8 Knyghtes and þe skyers well I-horsed and well y-wepened. c 1450 Robin Hood & Monk viii. in Child Ballads III. 97/1 Take twelue of þi wyght ȝemen, Well weppynd, be þi side. 1586 J. Hooker Hist. Irel. 162/2 in Holinshed, A thousand well weaponed and appointed men. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. 108 The foresaid Arch-Bishops..attended with a numerous train of well-weaponed servants. 1670 Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 61 Thick upon the shoar stood several gross bands of men well weapn'd. 1917 Kipling Diversity of Creatures 405 To the sound of trumpets shall their seed restore my Cities, Wealthy and well-weaponed. |