informed

adjective5

1. •
   aware of the facts about something after being told them or learning them

   • An informed young man delivered a lecture on the history of modern art.
2. •
   Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.

   • Another informed and sobering estimate is that by 1800 indigenous populations in the western hemisphere were a tenth of what they had been three centuries before. — 2009
3. •
   (no longer used) Created, given form.

   • after Nilus invndation, Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd. — 1590
4. •
   (no longer used) Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.

   • But, mindfull still of your first countries sight, Doe still preserve your first informed grace, Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face — 1596
5. •
   (no longer used) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.

   • the informed stars