informed

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of inform

adj

1. Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.

   “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.”

3. (obsolete)Created, given form.

   “after Nilus invndation, Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.”

4. (obsolete)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”

5. (obsolete)Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.

   “the informed stars”