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daintily, adv.|ˈdeɪntɪlɪ|
[f. dainty a. + -ly2.]
†1. Excellently, finely, handsomely, delightfully.
a1400Morte Arth. 723 Dukkes and duzseperes daynttehely rydes. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 8 Rycht wele arayt and dayntely. 1625Bacon Ess. Truth (Arb.) 499 A naked..day-light, that doth not show the masques..of the world halfe so Stately, and daintily, as Candlelights. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 2 There is no Forrest on Earth so daintily watered, with such great navigable Rivers.
2. In a dainty manner; with delicate attention to the palate, personal comfort, etc.
c1340Cursor M. 3655 (Trin.) Venisoun..Deyntily diȝte to his pay. c1440Gesta Rom. xxxvi. 145 (Harl. MS.) The fleshe is i-fed deyntili. 1549Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 52 The rich..gloton whych fared well and deyntely euery day. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. iii. 61 Baked in that Pie, Whereof their Mother dantily hath fed. 1647Cowley Mistress, Love's Ingratitude ii, And daintily I nourish'd Thee With Idle Thoughts and Poetry. 17..Broome View Epick Poems (J.), To sleep well and fare daintily.
3. Delicately, nicely, etc.; elegantly, gracefully, neatly, deftly.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. viii. §1 He was not tenderly & deintily handled. 1592Greene Disput. 1 You tread so daintily on your typtoes. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. xxiii, So daintily hath he struck upon the whole string. 1860G. H. K. Vac. Tour. 117 The daintily tripping roe. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) vii. 443 The envoy performed his ungracious task as daintily as he could.
†4. Rarely, sparingly. Obs. (Cf. dainty a. 2.)
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxi. 242 To be kept there as a prysoner, where he was so dayntely fed that he dyed for hunger. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 65 The Auncients haue one or two examples of Tragy-comedies..But..we shall find, that they neuer, or very daintily, match Horn-pypes and Funeralls. |