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smartly, adv.|ˈsmɑːtlɪ|
Also 3–4 smert(e)liche (4 compar. -loker), 4 smartliche, 4–5 smertli, 4–6 smertly, etc.
[f. smart a. + -ly2.]
1. Vigorously, forcibly; sharply (in respect of physical action).
a1225Leg. Kath. 1990 Almihti godd..smit se smertliche herto, þat alle þeos fowr hweoles tohwiðerin to stucchen. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 3485 Asaileþ hem smerteliche. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 711 Hem to smyte..smartly I þenk. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 6217 Many of Troye in his defence At that tyme ful smartly stryues. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii, Thrice had the golden Sun his hote steedes..smartly lasht Out of the baulmy east. 1673Essex Papers (Camden) I. 146 We went to supper, were very merry, and drank smartly. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr ii. viii. 80 Thus the Nurse..Kisses the Wanton..when it ought..to be Smartly Whipt. 1796Morse Amer. Geogr. I. 761 A breeze..which blows smartly from the land. 1867F. Francis Angling xiv. (1880) 487 The fish played smartly for a minute. 1883Huxley Pract. Biol. 8 Pressing smartly with the handle of a mounted needle.
b. Sharply (in respect of treatment, language, etc.); severely; curtly.
a1300Cursor M. 21496 Me war leuer..þan dempt sua smertli to be. c1449Pecock Repr. i. ix. 47 Of this same mater it is quikli and smertli spoken in a litil book therto..maad. a1661Fuller Worthies (1662) ii. 165, I admired much that a man of his age, could write, so smartly, so solidly, so significantly. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. ii. 84 He answered smartly [L. mordaciter] again, I had indeed believed it, if thou couldst still have held thy Tongue. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxxvii. 382 Haddow smartly answered, this was too impudent an hyperbole. Ibid. 390 He treated his adversary now more smartly than he had done before. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 258 Mrs. Younge replied very smartly to some questions of her husband. 1841Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. x, I let him one day know pretty smartly, that I was..a considerable shareholder in the Company.
c. Sharply (in respect of feeling); keenly; also, heavily, largely.
1677in Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. 96 Therfor the fynes to be exacted wold be such as may be smartlie felt by the transgressors. 1800Asiatic Ann. Reg. 255/2 The air proved here as cold.., and having no shelter from trees, was the more smartly felt. 1884Manch. Exam. 22 May 5/2 Foreigners will not be allowed to share in this advantage without paying pretty smartly for the privilege.
2. Promptly, quickly, briskly (and trimly).
a1300Cursor M. 17810 Quen þat þai herd þis word be said, Ful smertli þai þam þider graid. c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3323 Þarfor þai swippe þurgh purgatory Als a foul þat flyes smertly. c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xxxiii. (1859) 37 That bylle whan it was leyd in the balaunce peysed so sore, that smartely that other syde aroos. c1450Merlin xx. 324 Thei ronne to armes hastely, and peyned hem harde to be smartly armed and soone. a1550Freiris Berwik 563 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 303 Vpoun his feit he stude, And throw the myre full smertly than he ȝude. 1711Budgell Spect. No. 161 ⁋3 A Trip which was given him so smartly that I could scarce discern it. 1833Reg. & Instr. Cavalry i. 112 Come smartly to the position of ‘Attention’. 1849Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxv, The horsemen wheeled smartly round. 1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Apr. 281 They walked smartly past the door.
3. Cleverly, neatly; wittily.
1673Remarques Humours Town 46 He replied handsomely and smartly. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 204 And Tertullian himself, briefly and smartly [says] Omnis Spiritus ales est. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1759) II. 115 Smartly put, Betty. 1859Hawthorne Transformation ii, What old man..could have turned a silly compliment more smartly than that!
4. Handsomely, elegantly, fashionably.
1836Marryat J. Faithful xxxvi, He expended all his earnings on dressing himself smartly, and making presents to her. 1840Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story i, Upon this..the two managed to live pretty smartly, and to maintain an honourable reputation. 1891Leeds Mercury 27 Apr. 4/7 The guests dressed very smartly, and the wedding was a really pretty one.
Comb.1838Dickens O. Twist xxii, Dressed in a smartly-cut snuff-coloured coat. 1859Reeve Brittany 236 Two smartly dressed girls came to the door. |