c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 773 Ouer alle oþer so hyȝ þou clambe, To lede with hym so ladyly lyf.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 3254 In a surcott of sylke..with ladily lappes the lenghe of a ȝerde.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 15 He brought to his mynde her fair and fresshe colour, her ladyly maytiene & her noble facion & corpulence.

a1500 ( Nightingale (Corpus Oxf.) 8 in O. Glauning Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1900) 2 (MED) Go..Offringe thyselfe..Vn-to..The Duches..Besechinge hyre that..Sche wold..Among hyre bokys for the Asygne A place, Vn-to the tyme hyr ladyly goodnesse Luste for to call vn-to hyr high presence..hyre peple.

1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 7 385 We do not refer to the fashionable annuals, those very ineffable bulletins of lordly and ladyly inanity.

1851 E. Lynn Realities II. iii. 58 Alice improved so rapidly that the very servants learned to call her the ‘most ladyly’ and the ‘best mistress of the two’.

1934 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 17 July 8/5 Every person on the tour conducted themselves at all times in a gentlemanly and ladyly manner.

2001 AARP Ann. Legislative & Public Policy Meeting, Washington DC (transcript) (electronic text) I would solicit your gentlemanly and ladily disagreement if there's some, and any sort of comments you want to make.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 58 Heo schal beo greattre ibollen. leafdiluker leoten of þen a leafdi of hà mes.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxvi. l. 129 This duchesse..Nolde therto Assente..and Excused here ful ladyly.

1829 J. Clare Let. 3 Jan. (1985) 450 A lady at the table talked so ladily of the Poets that I drank off my glass very often without knowing it.

1987 Times (Nexis) 4 June His villains are villainously villainous..his heroes heroically heroic..and the lovely ladies ladily lovely.