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skilfully, adv.|ˈskɪlfʊlɪ|
Also 4 skeluolliche, skilfulliche, skil-, schilfuli, skilefully, 4–5 skylfully, etc.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
†1. Reasonably; with good reason; naturally.
c1325Metr. Hom. 46 Ful schilfuli and wit resoun Mai men ask this questioun. 1340Ayenb. 6 Me may zuerie wyþ-oute zenne,..in oþre guode skele and clenliche and skeluolliche. c1386Chaucer Sec. Nun's T. 320 Men myghten dreden wel and skilfully This lyf to lese. c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. (1908) 176 Who so wole..byholde how oure lorde Jesu wepeth,..skilfully he may be stired to compassioun and wepynge. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 3198 As deth for deth is skilfully guerdoun. c1460Ashby Dicta Philos. 403 To..ly not for his profett in suche guise That it shuld harme any man skilfully.
†b. To a reasonable extent; in a moderate degree. Obs.
13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxvii. 553 Þerfore I rede..Þat vche Mon skilfuli of his god [= good] mak him glad. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 35 He techeþ alle men to be skilfulliche scars. c1430Chev. Assigne 47 She sente aftur a man..That hadde serued her-seluen skylfully longe. c1450Two Cookery-bks. 101 Drawe it thorgh a streynour skilfully thik.
2. In a skilful manner; with skill; cleverly, adroitly, dexterously.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Scienter, cunnyngly: skilfully. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 253 Thou art an old Loue⁓monger, and speakest skilfully. 1631Gouge God's Arrows v. §6. 414 Choice persons are instructed..wisely to encampe, and skilfully to embattaile. 1695Ld. Preston Boethius i. 16 Thou didst skilfully read upon all Divine and Humane Learning. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) I. xv. 100 The one being laid against the other so skilfully, that there is a just equipoise of the whole globe. 1839James Louis XIV, I. 105 He skilfully availed himself of those threats to pretend that his life was in danger. 1861Buckle Civiliz. (1873) II. viii. 547 The scheme, secretly prepared, was skilfully accomplished.
b. With pa. pples. used attributively.
1821Craig Lect. Drawing, etc. iv. 245 In a skilfully executed picture. 1848Buckley Iliad 164, I rushed forth, having burst the skilfully-joined doors. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 11 The more skilfully worked weapons of a later stage of the same period. |