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soldierly, a. and adv.|ˈsəʊldʒəlɪ|
Also 6–7 souldier-, 7 soldiour-, 8 Sc. sogerly.
[f. soldier n. + -ly.]
A. adj.
1. Becoming or appropriate to, befitting, a soldier or soldiers. (Cf. soldierlike a. 2.)
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. 50 Varro maketh mention of foure kindes of enclosure, the fyrst naturall, the second wylde, the thirde souldierly. [Ibid., The third the Souldiers fortefying.] a1586Sidney Arcadia i. vi. ⁋2 They had fought rather with beastly furie, then with any souldierly discipline. 1631Chapman Cæsar & Pompey ii. 1, Can I hope..to raise my fortunes By creeping up in soldierly degrees? 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 724 They published an answer filled with many souldierly taunts. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. v. (1778) II. 4 The impetuosity of his temper..mellowed into a cordial soldierly frankness. 1809Malkin Gil Blas v. i. ⁋21 It is not soldierly to shrink from the perils of the field. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §3. 176 The rough soldierly nobleness of his nature breaks out at Falkirk.
2. Having the qualities of a soldier. (Cf. soldierlike a. 1.)
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 450 Some of his kinde souldierly followers founded a Chanterie at Castle Heningham. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics 325 Little better then a souldierly ruffian. 1763H. Walpole Lett. (1891) IV. 68 My nephew..is very soldierly and lively. 1770Bp. Forbes Jrnl. (1886) 288 In order to seige, or rather murder, the sogerly Shaw. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xvii, Colonel Dent is a fine soldierly man.
3. Comb., as soldierly-like, soldierly-looking.
1601in Sydney Papers (1746) II. 240 My Lord smootheth over the vncivill Entertainment with..soldiourly-like excuses. 1823Scott Quentin D. xvii, A tall, stout, soldierly⁓looking man.
B. adv. = soldierlike adv.
1585Sidney Lett. Misc. Wks. (1829) 309 The companies heer.., whome he had very well and souldierly gou[e]rned. 1611Cotgr., Soldatesquement, souldierly, souldier-like. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Wars x. 8 Never with⁓out losse did any army fall off,..though never so skilfully and souldierly. 1886St. James' Gaz. 16 Oct. (Cassell), His warlike daughter smites them hip and thigh, using her sword right soldierly. |