conceitedlyadv.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 129 Conceitedly and phantastically devised.

1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion iii. Illustr. 53 Sir Philip Sidney, to fit his Sonnet..conceitedly addes a froward, but chast, Lady for the seuenth.

1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes To Rdr. sig. A Bookes conceitedly composed.

1827 Q. Rev. 35 411 Horne Tooke's..work, so happily denominated Επεα Πτεροεντα, and so conceitedly ‘Diversions of Purley’.

1978 Notes & Queries Oct. 416/1 The portrait of betrayal in each poem..uses these details conceitedly, as traits now evident within the limit of human frailty.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 218 Martialists in Discipline..the auncient vse, conceitedly, doe bar.

1670 in Phenix (1721) I. 364 The conceitedly-learned Mayor.

1770 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 124 She..lisps affectedly, simpers designedly, and lookes conceitedly.

1795 Phantoms of Cloisters I. 170 ‘I mean,’ said he, conceitedly, ‘when you'll have the honour of being Lady Aberton.’

1837 Fraser's Mag. June 765/1 This is a work of no value, except as it serves to shew what is the folly of people who write conceitedly on subjects of which they know nothing.

1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 8 Thoroughly insignificant, conceitedly harmless.

1908 A. F. R. Wollaston From Ruwenzori to Congo i. 20 Crowned cranes, generally in pairs, stride conceitedly about.

1952 Jet 28 Aug. 38 They preen conceitedly in a salon covered with mirrors.

2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 65 The Ancient Universities, as they conceitedly style themselves, seem to embody the irrelevant, archaic, moribund and shameful past.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 21 Cicero most pleasantly and conceitedly [said].

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 86 A wittie checke..conceitedly to rebuke & hit in the teeth, those shrewd women.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. x. ii. xi. 1912 He answered conceitedly, amongst other speeches, that he hoped for no other benefit from the Spaniard, then that which Polyphemus had promised Vlysses.