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costly, a. (adv.)|ˈkɒstlɪ, -ɔː-|
Forms: 4 costily, ? coystily, coostly, costli, 5 costlye, Sc. costlik, -lyk, 5–6 costely, 6 costeley, coastly, 4– costly.
[f. cost n.2 + -ly1.]
1. That costs much; requiring or involving great expenditure.
a. Of great price or value; sumptuous.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 369 Closid in grete cloystres and coystily. Ibid. 383 Costily housis. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxviii. 76 At Renfrewe a mawngery costlyk he made. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxx. 97 Ethelbertus..amonge other costlye deedys, began y⊇ foundacion of Poulys Churche. 1535Coverdale Prov. i. 6 All maner of costly riches. 1548Hall Chron. 12 b, Served at the table with costely meate like a kyng. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 39 Not long since the women of Germanie knewe no costlyer attyre. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 226 Rare, exotic, and costly shrubs. 1711Steele Spect. No. 252 ⁋3 Japan Screens and costly Jars. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xvi, The costliest palace. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 191 All ornament ought to be costly.
b. Occasioning excessive expenditure; involving loss or sacrifice; expensive, dear.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 364 Generaly, worst þing is more costly & more hevy. 1465Paston Lett. No. 522 II. 224 Thou hast be the costlyest childe that evere I hadde. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxix. §14 His wars are costly and chargeable. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. i. 60 Such a costly losse of wealth and friends. 1738Wesley Psalms li. 17 No costly Sacrifice [dost thou] require. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 694 Sieges such as those of Mons and Namur were operations too costly for her means. 1891Law Times XCI. 21/2 Our costly courts of law.
†c. costly colours: an obsolete game at cards.
1674Cotton Compl. Gamester in Singer Hist. Cards 341 You must set up six for Costly Colours. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 206 They found Duroy and Heartley playing at Costly Colours: a game upon the cards peculiar to that country. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 341.
2. Lavish in expenditure, extravagant. arch.
1632Lithgow Trav. iii. (1682) 87 They are not costly in apparel, for they weare but linnen cloaths. 1697Dryden æneid ix. 177 To curse the Costly Sex. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 181 Hee sees..No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 233 This dagger..which when now admired By Edith..At once the costly Sahib yielded to her.
†B. adv. In a costly manner; sumptuously; dearly. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 19 Þat feden himsilf coostly. 1576G. Gascoigne Compl. Phil. (Arb.) 87 These thriftles birds..Are costly kept, and finely fedde. 1619W. Sclater Expos. 2 Thess. (1630) 554 To goe costly attyred. a1625Beaum. & Fl. Wit. at Sev. Weapons v. i, I thank you costly, sir, and kindly too. |