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lordly, a. and adv.|ˈlɔːdlɪ|
Forms: see lord n. and -ly.
[OE. hláfordlic, f. lord n. + -ly.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to a lord or lords; consisting of lords; administered by lords. Now rare.
a1000in Napier O.E. Glosses (Anecd. Oxon.) 187/1 Heroicus, id est nobile, hlafordlic. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 23 Chireche..is cleped on boc kiriaca .i. dominicalis, þat is on englis louerdlich hus. c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 623/14 Herilis, lordlyche. 1530Palsgr. 317/2 Lordlyke belongyng to a lorde. 1645J. Cotton Way Ch. New Eng. 36 The Government of his [Christ's] Kingdome is not Lordly, but Stewardly and Ministeriall. 1653J. Hall Paradoxes 4 Lordly or absolute Monarchy is the best and most natural Government. 1841Miall in Nonconf. I. 241 Pensioning off supernumerary members of lordly houses. 1862R. Vaughan Nonconformity 392 The more learned of this class were ardent in their support of a lordly prelacy.
2. Of persons: Having the character, attributes, appearance, or demeanour of a lord. Of actions: Befitting a lord; honourable, noble.
a1400Morte Arth. 138 Thow arte þe lordlyeste lede þat ever I one lukyde. Ibid. 396 Þe conquerour..Alowes þame gretly theire lordly a-vowes. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) G vij, Some will be so lordely and valyaunt in vertues. 1829Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 124 The..aggregate of good which arises to the lordlier part of the creation. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 263 It is truly a lordly spectacle how this great soul takes in all kinds of men and objects, a Falstaff, an Othello, a Juliet, a Coriolanus. 1859C. Barker Associat. Principle i. 28 Falconry and the chase afforded to the abbot..the most lordly recreation of the time. 1886Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxxvi. 3 He is more lordly than all emperors and kings condensed into one.
b. Haughty, imperious, lofty, disdainful.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. iii. 160 Lawe is so lordeliche and loth to make ende. 1530Palsgr. 661/1 Are you waxen so lordely that you can nat plucke of your hosen your selfe? a1548Hall Chron., Rich. III 39 Whome he..had..compelled by lordely and streite commaundemente. 1588J. Udall Demonstr. Discipl. (Arb.) 45 A minister may not be Lordly ouer Gods people [1 Pet. v. 3]. 1600Holland Livy xlv. xxxv. 1225 He was an imperious and lordly commaunder. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 2 (1619) 582 It suffereth not the Minister to be lordly in his doctrine or discipline. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 151 The Lordly domineering of the English, was not forgotten in France. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 454 And like a Lion..He..with a Lordly Rage, his Hunters tears. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 625 The lordly West-Indian tortures his poor Negroes. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 303 The Captain..treated the Master with lordly contempt. 1862Mrs. Browning Ragged Schools London ix, Lordly English, think it o'er. 1880L. Stephen Pope iv. 93 Swift, indeed, had..a lordly indifference to making money by his writings.
3. Of things: Suitable for a lord; hence, grand, magnificent, noble.
1535Coverdale Judg. v. 25 She..broughte forth butter in a lordly diszshe. 1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. i. 6 b, In placeing of his kinsemen hie, in loftie Lordely chayre. 1604Drayton Owl 37 Under th' extensure of whose lordly arms, The small birds warbled their harmonious charms. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xiv, On this bold brow, a lordly tower. 1832Tennyson Pal. Art i, I built my soul a lordly pleasurehouse. 1890H. G. Dakyns Xenophon I. p. lxxxviii, Cyrus was flying at lordlier game than certain irrepressible hill tribes.
4. absol. (In early use quasi-n., a lordly person.)
c1470Golagros & Gaw. 1276 To that lordly on loft that lufly can lout. 1535Coverdale Job xxxiv. 19 He hath no respecte vnto the personnes of y⊇ lordly. 1849James Woodman iv, No meeting of the high, the rich, and the lordly. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xvi. 244 He still advocated the lordly, liberal, and effective.
5. Comb.
1860–6Patmore Angel in Ho. ii. ii. iii, I am so proud of Frederick, He's so high-bred and lordly-like With Mrs. Vaughan!
B. adv. After the manner of a lord; in a lordly manner (both in good and bad sense).
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xx. 241 Lordliche for to lyuen, and likyngliche be clothed. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxx. (1495) 722 By his socour..that..sauyth all lordly and myghtly. c1420Anturs of Arth. 489 (Douce MS.) And at þe listes one þe lande lordely done liȝte. c1440Promp. Parv. 312/2 Lordly, dominanter. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 61 To rebuke him for tyrannising so Lordlie ouer the boies. 1728Savage Bastard 45 Lordly neglectful of a worth unknown. 1812Combe Picturesque vii. (Chandos) 26 ‘If I’ said he, ‘remember right, I was most lordly drunk last night’. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 279 In a land where few were poor, if none Were lordly rich. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 467 Love is his tyrant, and lives lordly in him.
Comb.1864G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 263 Who is yon lordly-dressed man who is walking along the street? |