well-ˈwritten, ppl. a.
| 1598 Barnfield Poems (Arb.) 119 Drayton, whose wel⁓written Tragedies, And sweete Epistles, soare thy fame to skies. 1776 Burney Hist. Mus. I. 171 A well-written and well-set scene of recitative. 1779 Mirror No. 36 A well-written preface. 1809 Malkin Gil Blas xi. vi. (Rtldg.) 405 This well-written statement. 1911 G. B. Shaw Blanco Posnet Pref. 360 An able and well-written statement of the case. |