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mistily, adv.|ˈmɪstɪlɪ|
Also 4 mystiliche, mistili, 4–5 mistely, etc.
[f. misty a.1 + -ly2.]
In a misty manner; in early quots. fig.
With the first quot. cf. misty a.2
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 4364 In þe appocalipse apparty Es sayd þus ful mistyly [etc.]. 138.Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 149 Þat þes þingis he seide bifore to hem in proverbis and mystily. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. T. 841 Philosophres speken so mistily In this craft, that men can nat come therby. c1450Merlin 54 Than began Merlin to speke so mystily wher-of the boke of prophesyes is made. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxlv. (1533) 173/1 Yt ys..so darkely or mystly wryten, that the reader therof shall hardely come to y⊇ knowlege of the trouthe. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 90 These Men having gazed long at the Starre above doe as Mistyly behold the Wise-men below. 1813Examiner 31 May 348/1 The mistily seen objects behind. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 278 It began to rain, first mistily, and then in thick, hard drops. 1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. iv. 122 A semi-unconscious and mistily vague hope. 1897Cent. Mag. Feb. 556/1 The distant palms rose mistily into the genial air. |