costlyadj.

Brit.

/ˈkɒs(t)li/,

/ˈkɔːs(t)li/, U.S.

/ˈkɔs(t)li/,

/ˈkɑs(t)li/

Forms:

α. see cost n.³ and -ly suffix¹.

β. Middle English costily, Middle English coystily.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cost n.³, -ly suffix¹.

Etymology: < cost n.³ + -ly suffix¹. Compare earlier costious adj. and slightly earlier costlew adj.Compare Old Frisian kostelik (West Frisian kostlik ), Middle Dutch costelijc , costlijc (Dutch kostelijk ), Middle Low German köstlīk , köstelīke ( > Old Swedish kosteliker , Swedish (now archaic) kostlig ), Middle High German kostelīch , kostlīch (German köstlich , †kostlich , now chiefly in sense ‘delicious’), Old Icelandic kostligr . In β. forms with remodelling after costy adj.

a. Of a high price or value; sumptuous, lavish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > sumptuous

richc1275

costful1340

costious1340

costlewa1387

costlya1400

costy?c1430

sumptuous1458

opimec1540

dapatical1623

pollucible1623

opiparous1628

lautitious1648

opimous1656

superb1669

plushy1884

plush1890

Ritzian1908

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adjective] > dear or expensive

dear1044

costful1340

costious1340

costlewa1387

costlya1400

costy?c1430

prized1500

high1542

high-priced1591

expenseful1605

chary1610

expensivea1661

salt1710

dearthful1786

big ticket1906

pricey1932

exclusive1942

up-market1972

a1400 in G. R. Owst Lit. & Pulpit Medieval Eng. (1933) 369 (MED) Now a wrecchid cnave..muste have..a costli gowne with bagges hangynge to his kne.

c1400 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 383 Costily housis.

c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 112 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 97 Twa brethir..bocht costly stanis.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxx. f. lvii Ethelbertus..amonge other Costlye deedys, began y^e foundacion of Poulys Churche.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xiiij Serued at the table with costely meate like a kyng.

1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East iv. iii. sig. I^v The charge of my most curious, and costly ingredients fraide,..I shall acknowledge my selfe amply satisfi'd.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 82 in Sylva Rare, exotic, and costly Shrubs.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 252. ⁋3 Japan Screens and costly Jars.

1741 W. Shenstone Judgm. Hercules 202 Thy costly robe shall glow with Tyrian rays.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 139 The costliest palace.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 191 All ornament ought to be costly.

1920 Illustr. London News 7 Aug. 226/1 Private entertaining on the old lavish scale, with costly floral decorations, costly suppers, costly wines, costly everything.

1987 J. H. Baker M. T. Lincoln vii. 193 For the first time in American history bare arms and necks were available to display costly jewelry.

2011 Times of India (Nexis) 23 July He wanted to kidnap the boy for ransom, so he could buy costly clothes and gadgets.

b. Involving, incurring, or characterized by high or excessive expenditure, expensive; (also) involving great loss or sacrifice.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > involving great or excessive expenditure

dear1044

chargeous138.

wastyc1380

dear-boughtc1384

costlewa1387

costlya1425

costy?c1430

costfulc1450

costablea1475

chargeable1480

sumptuous1485

chargeful1529

deep1608

tributary1632

burdenablec1650

expensivea1661

consumptive1753

capital-intensive1907

a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 364 Generaly, worst þing is more costly and more hevy.

1465 Will of Nicholas Pickering in Paston Lett. (1904) IV. 178 (MED) Thou hast be the costlyest childe that evere I hadde.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) Pref. to Rdr. sig. B.iij I found the site so good..but the making so costlie, outreaching my habilitie.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxix. 248 His warres are costly and chargeable.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. i. 62 Such a costly losse of wealth and friends.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 233 They are so daintie-Tongued that their Company is too costly.

1743 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms (new ed.) 13 No costly Sacrifice [dost thou] require.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 182 Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 694 Sieges such as those of Mons and Namur were operations too costly for her means.

1891 Law Times 91 21/2 Our costly courts of law.

1937 J. Cournos tr. E. Tarlé Bonaparte xiii. 281 He realised that this had been the most costly battle of his career.

1977 News-Herald (Panama City, Florida) 18 Aug. d2/2 It took 10 years of costly litigation before the courts held the raid an unconstitutional abuse of power.

2012 Canberra Times (Nexis) 29 June a4 (headline) New credit card laws to expose costly fine print.

2. Of a person: lavish or reckless in expenditure; extravagant; (also) tending to incur great expense on the part of another or others. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective]

largea1225

fool-largec1325

costlewa1387

outragea1400

riotousc1405

sumptuousa1425

superfluea1425

prodigatec1429

profuse?a1475

lavishc1475

prodigalc1485

prodiga1492

prodigaleousa1500

superfluous1531

wasteful1538

costly?1555

prodigal1570

overlavish1573

squandering1589

lavishing1598

spenseful1600

expenseful1605

spendthrift1607

spendful1611

dingthrifty1615

impendious1623

expensive1628

unthriftya1631

spendthrifty1642

flush1703

extravagant1711

profligate1718

dispendious1727

wastry1791

wasterful1821

wastrife1822

prodigalish1857

high-rolling1890

wastrel1896

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective] > extravagant or spendthrift (of persons)

fool-largec1325

costlewa1387

costly?1555

improvident1589

spenseful1600

expenseful1605

spendthrift1607

spendful1611

dingthrifty1615

impendious1623

spendthrifty1642

expensive1650

extravagant1711

hand-to-mouth1748

spendy1911

?1555 T. Paynell tr. J. L. Vives Office of Husband sig. Y.iij So doth y^e costly & sumptuous wife loue her husband, not for his owne sake, but for her owne vtilitie and profite.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 89 They are not costly in apparell, for they weare but linnen cloathes.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 469 To curse the costly Sex.

1714 Ladies Libr. I. 110 The best a Man can hope for from such a costly Wife, is to be pity'd.

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 10 Hee sees..No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 63 This dagger.., which when now admired By Edith.., At once the costly Sahib yielded to her.

1903 ‘H. Mathers’ Griff of Griffithscourt xxii. 218 Out of that dainty, pure little Doll's House..stepped daily the most costly woman (as regarded clothes), and the best-turned-out, then in London.

2001 M. Dvorak in J. Bardolph Telling Stories 5 This costly wife..is explicitly contrasted with the ‘simple girls’ that Steve ‘had known as a child in the country’.

Compounds

costly colours n. now rare a card game similar to cribbage, the object being to score exactly 31 points by playing cards in certain combinations.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others

laugh and lie down1522

mack1548

decoyc1555

pinionc1557

to beat the knave out of doors1570

imperial1577

prima vista1587

loadum1591

flush1598

prime1598

thirty-perforce1599

gresco1605

hole1621

my sow's pigged1621

slam1621

fox-mine-host1622

whipperginnie1622

crimpa1637

hundred1636

pinache1641

sequence1653

lady's hole1658

quebas1668

art of memory1674

costly colours1674

penneech1674

plain dealing1674

wit and reason1680

comet1685

lansquenet1687

incertain1689

macham1689

uptails1694

quinze1714

hoc1730

commerce1732

matrimonya1743

tredrille1764

Tom come tickle me1769

tresette1785

snitch'ems1798

tontine1798

blind hazard1816

all fives1838

short cards1845

blind hookey1852

sixty-six1857

skin the lamb1864

brisque1870

handicap1870

manille1874

forty-five1875

slobberhannes1877

fifteen1884

Black Maria1885

slapjack1887

seven-and-a-half1895

pit1904

Russian Bank1915

red dog1919

fan-tan1923

Pelmanism1923

Slippery Sam1923

go fish1933

Russian Banker1937

racing demon1938

pit-a-pat1947

scopa1965

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xiv. 127 You must set up six for Costly-Colours.

1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 206 They found Duroy and Heartley playing at Costly Colours: a game upon the cards peculiar to that country.

1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 341 Costly colours. This game is to be played out only by two persons, of which the eldest is to play first as in other games.

1877 Salopian Shreds & Patches 14 Mar. 153/1 The game of cards referred to as ‘costly colours’, was, in my younger days, called ‘corsley’, and taught to children to render them apt in reckoning.

1924 M. Webb Precious Bane vi. 114 She..stood by the fire, telling us about the game of Costly Colours—how you counted, and of the trumps, and how three of a suit was a prial, and four of a suit was Costly.

1944 K. Winsor Forever Amber (2000) xx. 313 They sat before the fire and played card games, costly-colours, putt, wit-and-reason.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	costly
释义	costlyadj. Brit. /ˈkɒs(t)li/, /ˈkɔːs(t)li/, U.S. /ˈkɔs(t)li/, /ˈkɑs(t)li/ Forms: α. see cost n.³ and -ly suffix¹. β. Middle English costily, Middle English coystily. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cost n.³, -ly suffix¹. Etymology: < cost n.³ + -ly suffix¹. Compare earlier costious adj. and slightly earlier costlew adj.Compare Old Frisian kostelik (West Frisian kostlik ), Middle Dutch costelijc , costlijc (Dutch kostelijk ), Middle Low German köstlīk , köstelīke ( > Old Swedish kosteliker , Swedish (now archaic) kostlig ), Middle High German kostelīch , kostlīch (German köstlich , †kostlich , now chiefly in sense ‘delicious’), Old Icelandic kostligr . In β. forms with remodelling after costy adj. 1. a. Of a high price or value; sumptuous, lavish. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > sumptuous richc1275 costful1340 costious1340 costlewa1387 costlya1400 costy?c1430 sumptuous1458 opimec1540 dapatical1623 pollucible1623 opiparous1628 lautitious1648 opimous1656 superb1669 plushy1884 plush1890 Ritzian1908 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adjective] > dear or expensive dear1044 costful1340 costious1340 costlewa1387 costlya1400 costy?c1430 prized1500 high1542 high-priced1591 expenseful1605 chary1610 expensivea1661 salt1710 dearthful1786 big ticket1906 pricey1932 exclusive1942 up-market1972 a1400 in G. R. Owst Lit. & Pulpit Medieval Eng. (1933) 369 (MED) Now a wrecchid cnave..muste have..a costli gowne with bagges hangynge to his kne. c1400 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 383 Costily housis. c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 112 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 97 Twa brethir..bocht costly stanis. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxx. f. lvii Ethelbertus..amonge other Costlye deedys, began y^e foundacion of Poulys Churche. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xiiij Serued at the table with costely meate like a kyng. 1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East iv. iii. sig. I^v The charge of my most curious, and costly ingredients fraide,..I shall acknowledge my selfe amply satisfi'd. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 82 in Sylva Rare, exotic, and costly Shrubs. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 252. ⁋3 Japan Screens and costly Jars. 1741 W. Shenstone Judgm. Hercules 202 Thy costly robe shall glow with Tyrian rays. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 139 The costliest palace. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 191 All ornament ought to be costly. 1920 Illustr. London News 7 Aug. 226/1 Private entertaining on the old lavish scale, with costly floral decorations, costly suppers, costly wines, costly everything. 1987 J. H. Baker M. T. Lincoln vii. 193 For the first time in American history bare arms and necks were available to display costly jewelry. 2011 Times of India (Nexis) 23 July He wanted to kidnap the boy for ransom, so he could buy costly clothes and gadgets. b. Involving, incurring, or characterized by high or excessive expenditure, expensive; (also) involving great loss or sacrifice. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > involving great or excessive expenditure dear1044 chargeous138. wastyc1380 dear-boughtc1384 costlewa1387 costlya1425 costy?c1430 costfulc1450 costablea1475 chargeable1480 sumptuous1485 chargeful1529 deep1608 tributary1632 burdenablec1650 expensivea1661 consumptive1753 capital-intensive1907 a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 364 Generaly, worst þing is more costly and more hevy. 1465 Will of Nicholas Pickering in Paston Lett. (1904) IV. 178 (MED) Thou hast be the costlyest childe that evere I hadde. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) Pref. to Rdr. sig. B.iij I found the site so good..but the making so costlie, outreaching my habilitie. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxix. 248 His warres are costly and chargeable. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. i. 62 Such a costly losse of wealth and friends. View more context for this quotation a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 233 They are so daintie-Tongued that their Company is too costly. 1743 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms (new ed.) 13 No costly Sacrifice [dost thou] require. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 182 Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 694 Sieges such as those of Mons and Namur were operations too costly for her means. 1891 Law Times 91 21/2 Our costly courts of law. 1937 J. Cournos tr. E. Tarlé Bonaparte xiii. 281 He realised that this had been the most costly battle of his career. 1977 News-Herald (Panama City, Florida) 18 Aug. d2/2 It took 10 years of costly litigation before the courts held the raid an unconstitutional abuse of power. 2012 Canberra Times (Nexis) 29 June a4 (headline) New credit card laws to expose costly fine print. 2. Of a person: lavish or reckless in expenditure; extravagant; (also) tending to incur great expense on the part of another or others. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] largea1225 fool-largec1325 costlewa1387 outragea1400 riotousc1405 sumptuousa1425 superfluea1425 prodigatec1429 profuse?a1475 lavishc1475 prodigalc1485 prodiga1492 prodigaleousa1500 superfluous1531 wasteful1538 costly?1555 prodigal1570 overlavish1573 squandering1589 lavishing1598 spenseful1600 expenseful1605 spendthrift1607 spendful1611 dingthrifty1615 impendious1623 expensive1628 unthriftya1631 spendthrifty1642 flush1703 extravagant1711 profligate1718 dispendious1727 wastry1791 wasterful1821 wastrife1822 prodigalish1857 high-rolling1890 wastrel1896 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective] > extravagant or spendthrift (of persons) fool-largec1325 costlewa1387 costly?1555 improvident1589 spenseful1600 expenseful1605 spendthrift1607 spendful1611 dingthrifty1615 impendious1623 spendthrifty1642 expensive1650 extravagant1711 hand-to-mouth1748 spendy1911 ?1555 T. Paynell tr. J. L. Vives Office of Husband sig. Y.iij So doth y^e costly & sumptuous wife loue her husband, not for his owne sake, but for her owne vtilitie and profite. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 89 They are not costly in apparell, for they weare but linnen cloathes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 469 To curse the costly Sex. 1714 Ladies Libr. I. 110 The best a Man can hope for from such a costly Wife, is to be pity'd. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 10 Hee sees..No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 63 This dagger.., which when now admired By Edith.., At once the costly Sahib yielded to her. 1903 ‘H. Mathers’ Griff of Griffithscourt xxii. 218 Out of that dainty, pure little Doll's House..stepped daily the most costly woman (as regarded clothes), and the best-turned-out, then in London. 2001 M. Dvorak in J. Bardolph Telling Stories 5 This costly wife..is explicitly contrasted with the ‘simple girls’ that Steve ‘had known as a child in the country’. Compounds costly colours n. now rare a card game similar to cribbage, the object being to score exactly 31 points by playing cards in certain combinations. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xiv. 127 You must set up six for Costly-Colours. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 206 They found Duroy and Heartley playing at Costly Colours: a game upon the cards peculiar to that country. 1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 341 Costly colours. This game is to be played out only by two persons, of which the eldest is to play first as in other games. 1877 Salopian Shreds & Patches 14 Mar. 153/1 The game of cards referred to as ‘costly colours’, was, in my younger days, called ‘corsley’, and taught to children to render them apt in reckoning. 1924 M. Webb Precious Bane vi. 114 She..stood by the fire, telling us about the game of Costly Colours—how you counted, and of the trumps, and how three of a suit was a prial, and four of a suit was Costly. 1944 K. Winsor Forever Amber (2000) xx. 313 They sat before the fire and played card games, costly-colours, putt, wit-and-reason. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † costlyadv. Forms: see cost n.³ and -ly suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cost n.³, -ly suffix². Etymology: < cost n.³ + -ly suffix².Compare Middle Dutch costelijc, costelīke (Dutch kostelijk), Middle Low German köstlīk, köstlīke, köstlīken, Middle High German kostelīche, kostlīche, kostlīchen (German köstlich, †kostlich). Obsolete. In a costly manner; expensively; extravagantly, sumptuously. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adverb] > involving great expense costly1395 preciouslyc1395 costiouslyc1425 costfullya1464 costlew1480 sumptuouslyc1487 costlilya1500 preciousc1500 expensively?1607 deeply1631 Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 24 (MED) Alle tho that onouren costli such idolis. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 19 Þat feden hemsilf coostly. c1480 (a1400) St. George 180 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 141 He..gert his douchtir wele aray Rycht costly in al degre. 1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K These thriftles birds..Are costly kept, and finely fedde. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 Thee beams with brazed copper were costlye bepounced. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 554 To goe costly attyred. a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Llllll5/1 I thanke you, costly Sir, and kindly too. 1830 H. Angelo Reminisc. II. 508 The figurantes were costly dressed, far beyond what I had ever seen. 1898 Street Railway Jrnl. May 275/2 This costly built structure is always a centre of attraction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1400adv.1395
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costlyadj.

Compounds

† costlyadv.