well-understood

British

adjective

widely or sufficiently understood or comprehended

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I laugh, the while you rail, The power which fashion'd youth and maid, Well understood the noble trade; So neither shall occasion fail.

From Faust — Part 1 by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Tisiphoned, the blacksmith's trade Well understood; the locks she made: Proserpina, from Pluto's hand Receiving, wore it by command.

From Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by Davenport, John

This proposition, indeed, seems to be tolerably Well understood at the present day.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Clarkson, Thomas

I laugh, the while you rail; The power which fashion'd youth and maid Well understood the noble trade; So neither shall occasion fail.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

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