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▪ I. homely, a.|ˈhəʊmlɪ|
Forms: see home.
[f. home n. + -ly1. Not recorded in OE., but the cognate word exists in OFris. hêmelîk, OHG. heim(e)lîch, ON. heimiligr (Da. hemmelig).]
†1. Of or belonging to the home or household; domestic, ‘family’. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 1210 He gef vus to be his homly hyne. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 1373 Many hoomly trees ther were, That peches, coynes, and apples bere. 1388Wyclif Gal. vi. 10 To alle men; but most to hem that ben homliche of the feith. 1483Cath. Angl. 172/2 To make Hamely, domesticare. 1552Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 40, I heard say, that there were some homely thieves, some pickers in this worshipful house. 1577Harrison England iii. vii. (1878) ii. 44 Dogs of the homelie kind, are either shepheards, curs, or mastiffes.
2. Become as one of the household; familiar, intimate; at home with. Now rare or arch.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Ninian 853 Þis mane, þat vas hamely Vith hyme. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 13 To be more homely wiþ him þan þei weren before. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (1858) 201 That he [Mortimer] was ovyr homeli with the qween. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) H ij, This goode emperoure was..homely with euery man. 1636Rutherford Let. to Earlestown 6 July, Ye see your father is homely with you.
b. Familiar, that one is ‘at home’ with. rare.
1889Rider Haggard Cleopatra i, When the matter [she had heard] had become homely in her mind, and her fear had fallen from her, she spoke of the prophecy.
3. Characteristic of home as the place where one receives kind treatment; kind, kindly. Now rare or Obs.
c1375Barbour Troy-bk. i. 331 And with suete wordys hambly Reconfortit thame rytht hertly. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1660 He agayn, with humyll hamly cher, Resauit him. 1867G. Macdonald Poems 20 Whom gentler, homelier feelings stir.
4. Such as belongs to home or is produced or practised at home (esp. a humble home); unsophisticated, simple; plain, unadorned, not fine; everyday, commonplace; unpolished, rough, rude. (Sometimes approbative, as connoting the absence of artificial embellishment; but often apologetic, depreciative, or even as a euphemism for ‘wanting refinement, polish, or grace’.)
a. Of things.
c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 135 Thanne hadde I with yow hoomly suffisaunce I am a man of litel sustenaunce. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 112 Heir is bot hamelie fair. 1490Caxton Eneydos 1 Some gentylmen..desired me to vse olde and homely termes in my translacyons. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 164 Who can tell if suche men are worthe a groate, when their apparell is so homely? 1573Tusser Husb. lxxiii. (1878) 164 Though home be but homely, yet..home hath no fellow. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 96 The Buzzar in this Towne is but homely. 1711Addison Spect. No. 119 ⁋5 The Clown..clothed his Ideas in those plain homely Terms that are the most obvious and natural. 1795Gentl. Mag. 607/2 The unfortunate King of Poland..lives in a very homely manner. 1813Byron Corsair i. ii, Earth's coarsest bread, the garden's homeliest roots.
b. Of persons.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles ii. 43 Ȝe myssed ten schore Of homeliche hertis. 1426Audelay Poems 13 Hou homle hosbondmen here hertys thai aryse. 1504W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. ii. (1893) 154 A pore homely laborynge man. 1549Latimer 5th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 134 In his persuasions he is very whomlye. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. ii. 68 If you will take a homely mans aduice, Be not found heere. 1704–5I. Morris in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 371, I beg excuse for being thus homely and plain. 1863Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 155 A dear little homely woman.
5. Of persons, etc.: Of commonplace appearance or features; not beautiful, ‘plain’, uncomely. (Said also of the features themselves.)
1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. i. 89 Hath homelie age th'alluring beauty tooke From my poore cheeke? a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xii. §1 (1622) 332 Some parts of Man be..comely, some homely. 1634Milton Comus 748 It is for homely features to keep home. 1669Penn No Cross xi. §10 Nothing is Homely in God's Sight but Sin. 1706Phillips, Homely, ugly, disagreeable, course, mean. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) III. viii. 211 She..was extremely deformed and homely. 1873Ouida Pascarel II. 161 To bethink themselves of homelier and humbler charms. 1886Mrs. E. Lynn Linton P. Carew viii, The homely vein running through her own four daughters, of whom not one was really pretty and some were really plain.
6. Comb., as homely-featured, homely-looking adjs.; also † homely-man, † homely-woman, a domestic.
c1490Promp. Parv. 245/1 (MS. K) Homliman, or woman, domesticus, domestica. 1784Cowper Task iv. 252 Like homely-featured Night. 1864A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 99 Our farmers were then more homely-looking individuals than at present.
▪ II. † homely, adv. Obs.
[f. home n. + -ly2: cf. MHG. heim(e)lîche.]
1. Familiarly, intimately.
13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 3228 Down he broght hir til his hows, Hamely als sho war his spows. a1340Hampole Psalter iv. 1 Hamly he spekis til him. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 371 His briddes..comeþ homeliche to manis honde. c1440Promp. Parv. 245/1 Homly, or yn homly maner, domestice, familiariter. a1553Udall Royster D. i. iv. (Arb.) 27 What..A nourse talke so homely with one of your worship? 1650Trapp Comm. Gen. xxxi. 34 Presumptuous sinners deal as homely with the dear mercies of Almighty God.
2. Kindly.
1375Barbour Bruce xviii. 546 His frendis thus gat curtasly He couth ressawe, and hamely. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 230, I..him behaldis hamely, with hertly smyling. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. ix. 17 There he was welcom'd of that honest syre, And of his aged beldame homely well.
3. Plainly, simply, unpretentiously; without adornment or polish; without refinement; rudely, roughly.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 328 He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote. 1549Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 66 Homlyes..they maye be well called, for they are homely handeled. 1552Huloet, Homely, or after a rude fashion, agreste. 1563Foxe A. & M. 1077/1 Of these yeomen of the garde..the fourth (whose name was Homes), used him very homely, unkindly, and churlishelie. 1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner B v, It was very homely and rudely distilled,..not in a limbeck. 1697Dryden æneid vii. 928 Thus..homely drest, He strides into the hall.
4. Without reserve or circumlocution; directly ‘home’; straight to the point; plainly.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1510 (1559) Sche nolde feyne But as his sustir homeli soþ to seyne. 1465Paston Lett. No. 501 II. 183 For yeve me that I wryte thus boldly and homly to you. 1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) 107 Yf he can accuse, lett him doe yt homely. 1688H. Care King's Right Indulg. 28 They..spoke homely of the Clergy, who assisted the Pope's proceedings, crying out upon these shrivled Ribbaulds. |