† meetlyadj.

Forms:

α. Middle English metili, Middle English–1500s meteli, Middle English–1500s metelie, Middle English–1600s meetelie, Middle English–1600s meetly, Middle English–1600s metely, 1500s meetely.

β. Middle English metli, Middle English metlic, 1500s metly, 1500s metlych, 1500s metlyche; Scottish pre-1700 metly.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: i-metlich adj.; meet adj., -ly suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly (in early use) aphetic < i-metlich adj., and partly < meet adj. + -ly suffix¹. Compare earlier meetly adv.Derivation < i-metlich adj. appears to be chiefly a feature of early northern and Scots texts (compare the forms metli , metlic , metly in quots. a1400² at sense 1, a1400³ at sense 1, a1500 at sense 1).

Obsolete.

1. Moderate; of moderate size, quantity, or standard.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > moderateness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]

evenlya1200

methefully?c1225

renable?1305

reasonablea1325

measurablec1330

skillwisea1340

moderatea1398

temperate1398

meetlya1400

measurablyc1450

rationablec1475

competent1535

midway1573

modest1582

sober1619

medious1657

slack1662

meeverly1819

low key1941

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > not large or moderate

i-metlichc888

singlea1387

meetlya1400

ungreatc1550

modest1582

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 18827 (MED) Of heght he was meteli [a1400 Fairf. metili] man..Noþer to gret ne right to small.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 18847 (MED) Metli [a1400 Fairf. Meteli] har was on his chin.

a1400 Psalter (Harl.) xxxviii. 7 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 170 (MED) Metlic [L. mensurabiles; a1400 Vesp. Loke, methfullike mi daies sete þou].

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 822 With metely mouth and yen greye.

a1500 Ratis Raving 1322 Ewyne rychtwisnes in jugment..Metly meswre withe manhed.

1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Queen of Naples (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 232 The fingers of the said queen be right fair and small, and of a meetly length and breadth before, according unto her personage very fair handed.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xvi. 18 Wherof they were well served for their horses, and at a metly price.

?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. bi Leue thyn hawt conceytys and take a metely way.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xii. 359 After he had left at Falerii all his bag and baggage with a meetly garrison [L. cum modico praesidio].

1620 T. Venner Via Recta iv. 73 Mullet..is of pleasant taste, and of meetly nourishment.

c1645 W. Atkins Relation of Journey (1994) 234 Our lodgeing was but meetelie in the keele of the boate upon stones.

2. Fitting, proper, suitable, meet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > fitting or proper

methelyeOE

ylikeeOE

fairOE

i-meteOE

rightOE

becomelyc1175

proper?c1225

featc1325

conablea1340

rightful1340

worthyc1350

pursuanda1375

covenable1382

dignec1385

convenablec1386

thriftyc1386

sittingc1390

comenablea1400

gainlya1400

meeta1400

wortha1400

convenientc1400

meetlya1425

suinga1425

fitc1440

tallc1440

worthyc1450

good1477

dueful?a1527

beseeminga1530

fitting1535

straighta1538

decent1539

answerable1542

becoming1565

condecent1575

becomed1599

respective1605

befittinga1612

comely1617

decorous1664

shape-like1672

beseemly1737

farrantly?1748

fitly1840

in order1850

a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) 67 He was a man meteliest And of eld as him semed best.

c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 4 Fore love to-geder þus cum þai schalde, Fore þes makus metely maryage.

1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 600 I remembred me of a persone whyche to my thynkyng is meetly to be clerk of your kechyn.

1492 Rolls of Parl. VI. 455/1 Here is the place most metely for you, and where ye shall lak nothing.

1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Biv ^v Were it not suppose ye al this considerd, a metely thyng for vs to desyre, to haue this noble princes here amongest vs agayn.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 496 It was better, and meetelier for the Spartans they should choose them for their kinges, whome they found the meetest men of all their magistrates.

a1634 T. Gerard Particular Descr. Somerset (1900) 182 The most refined and metely English now spoken.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

meetlyadv.

Brit.

/ˈmiːtli/, U.S.

/ˈmitli/

Forms:

α. Old English metlice (rare), Middle English metly; also Scottish pre-1700 metly.

β. early Middle English metelike ( Ormulum), Middle English–1500s metely, Middle English– meetly, 1500s meately, 1500s meetelie, 1500s meetely, 1500s metelie; also Scottish pre-1700 meitly.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English gemetlīce ; meet adj., -ly suffix².

Etymology: Partly (in early use) aphetic < Old English gemetlīce ( < gemet i-met n. + -līce -ly suffix²; compare i-metlich adj.), and partly < meet adj. + -ly suffix². Compare later meetly adj.

Now archaic.

1. Fittingly, properly, suitably; as is meet. Also: †beautifully, handsomely (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > moderateness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb]

meetlyOE

better?c1225

measurelyc1350

renablyc1350

measurablya1382

skilfullya1387

meanlya1398

moderatelya1398

temperately1398

reasonablyc1400

faira1413

mean1535

competently1541

meanably1577

tarblish1842

mediumly1852

quite1854

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adverb] > fittingly or properly

welleOE

fairOE

meetlyOE

rightOE

worthlylOE

haghelyc1175

worthilyc1175

becomelyc1200

properly?c1225

i-semelichec1275

thriftilyc1374

duly1382

sittinglyc1390

justlyc1392

rightfula1400

goodlyc1400

hemelyc1400

meeta1450

statelya1450

ensuingly?1518

handsomely1525

worshipfully1532

decently1552

due1581

meeterly1589

fairly1600

beseemingly1611

dightly1616

becomingly1624

befittingly1638

fittinglya1643

condecently1656

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Yale 401) in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 60 (1961) 441 Examussim : metlice.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10703 Þatt tu beo meoc. & herrsumm till þin elldre. & tatt tu wiþþ þin efenning Þe metelike lede.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1414 (MED) So þat þe mete & þe masse watz metely delyuered.

1502 King Henry VII in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 55 The King both with men and money metely and conveniently..wol yeve assistence.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 3069 Full metely made, of a meane lenght.

1635 R. Sanderson Two Serm. S. Pauls Crosse & Grantham i. 51 Then are wee meetly prepared for this service.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Proeme The manners also meetly copied from the rustical folk therein.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. xx. 46 The monarch meetly thanks express'd.

a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) iii. 138 And with this ancient elephant there were meetly associated in Britain..many other mammals of corresponding magnitude.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 72 How I may..fix where change should meetly fall.

1975 New Yorker 26 May 116/3 Nevertheless, not even in Bach's own St. Thomas's, in Leipzig, are his cantatas today performed so meetly.

2. Moderately, fairly. Also as an intensifier: quite, very.Common in the 16th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adverb]

mildlyOE

moderatelya1398

middlelya1400

mediocrely?a1425

meetly1476

treatably1527

mildly1567

midway1596

mollifiedlya1640

meeverlya1800

1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 600 He is well spokyn jn Inglyshe, metly well in Frenshe, and verry parfite in Flemyshe.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xiiii. sig. H.iii Thys gyrle is a metely good pussell in a house, neuer idle, but euer occupied and busy.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Defin. Nowe haue you heard as touchyng circles meetely sufficient instruction.

c1565 R. Copland Seuen Sorowes Women sig. Ciii^v Me thynke I lede a metely mery lyfe Whiche I should not yf that I wh[e]re a wyfe.

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 45 I am meetly well purged of that disease.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 402 Tall of stature, and faire of complexion, their haire meetly yellow.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta iv. 74 Turbot or Birt is meetly pleasant to the taste.

1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 339 A fine and meetly large Church.

1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros iii. 42 There is in these Isles a meetly good road and riding-place for ships.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meetly
释义	† meetlyadj. Forms: α. Middle English metili, Middle English–1500s meteli, Middle English–1500s metelie, Middle English–1600s meetelie, Middle English–1600s meetly, Middle English–1600s metely, 1500s meetely. β. Middle English metli, Middle English metlic, 1500s metly, 1500s metlych, 1500s metlyche; Scottish pre-1700 metly. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: i-metlich adj.; meet adj., -ly suffix¹. Etymology: Partly (in early use) aphetic < i-metlich adj., and partly < meet adj. + -ly suffix¹. Compare earlier meetly adv.Derivation < i-metlich adj. appears to be chiefly a feature of early northern and Scots texts (compare the forms metli , metlic , metly in quots. a1400² at sense 1, a1400³ at sense 1, a1500 at sense 1). Obsolete. 1. Moderate; of moderate size, quantity, or standard. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > moderateness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] evenlya1200 methefully?c1225 renable?1305 reasonablea1325 measurablec1330 skillwisea1340 moderatea1398 temperate1398 meetlya1400 measurablyc1450 rationablec1475 competent1535 midway1573 modest1582 sober1619 medious1657 slack1662 meeverly1819 low key1941 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > not large or moderate i-metlichc888 singlea1387 meetlya1400 ungreatc1550 modest1582 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 18827 (MED) Of heght he was meteli [a1400 Fairf. metili] man..Noþer to gret ne right to small. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 18847 (MED) Metli [a1400 Fairf. Meteli] har was on his chin. a1400 Psalter (Harl.) xxxviii. 7 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 170 (MED) Metlic [L. mensurabiles; a1400 Vesp. Loke, methfullike mi daies sete þou]. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 822 With metely mouth and yen greye. a1500 Ratis Raving 1322 Ewyne rychtwisnes in jugment..Metly meswre withe manhed. 1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Queen of Naples (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 232 The fingers of the said queen be right fair and small, and of a meetly length and breadth before, according unto her personage very fair handed. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xvi. 18 Wherof they were well served for their horses, and at a metly price. ?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. bi Leue thyn hawt conceytys and take a metely way. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xii. 359 After he had left at Falerii all his bag and baggage with a meetly garrison [L. cum modico praesidio]. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iv. 73 Mullet..is of pleasant taste, and of meetly nourishment. c1645 W. Atkins Relation of Journey (1994) 234 Our lodgeing was but meetelie in the keele of the boate upon stones. 2. Fitting, proper, suitable, meet. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > fitting or proper methelyeOE ylikeeOE fairOE i-meteOE rightOE becomelyc1175 proper?c1225 featc1325 conablea1340 rightful1340 worthyc1350 pursuanda1375 covenable1382 dignec1385 convenablec1386 thriftyc1386 sittingc1390 comenablea1400 gainlya1400 meeta1400 wortha1400 convenientc1400 meetlya1425 suinga1425 fitc1440 tallc1440 worthyc1450 good1477 dueful?a1527 beseeminga1530 fitting1535 straighta1538 decent1539 answerable1542 becoming1565 condecent1575 becomed1599 respective1605 befittinga1612 comely1617 decorous1664 shape-like1672 beseemly1737 farrantly?1748 fitly1840 in order1850 a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) 67 He was a man meteliest And of eld as him semed best. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 4 Fore love to-geder þus cum þai schalde, Fore þes makus metely maryage. 1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 600 I remembred me of a persone whyche to my thynkyng is meetly to be clerk of your kechyn. 1492 Rolls of Parl. VI. 455/1 Here is the place most metely for you, and where ye shall lak nothing. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Biv ^v Were it not suppose ye al this considerd, a metely thyng for vs to desyre, to haue this noble princes here amongest vs agayn. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 496 It was better, and meetelier for the Spartans they should choose them for their kinges, whome they found the meetest men of all their magistrates. a1634 T. Gerard Particular Descr. Somerset (1900) 182 The most refined and metely English now spoken. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). meetlyadv. Brit. /ˈmiːtli/, U.S. /ˈmitli/ Forms: α. Old English metlice (rare), Middle English metly; also Scottish pre-1700 metly. β. early Middle English metelike ( Ormulum), Middle English–1500s metely, Middle English– meetly, 1500s meately, 1500s meetelie, 1500s meetely, 1500s metelie; also Scottish pre-1700 meitly. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English gemetlīce ; meet adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: Partly (in early use) aphetic < Old English gemetlīce ( < gemet i-met n. + -līce -ly suffix²; compare i-metlich adj.), and partly < meet adj. + -ly suffix². Compare later meetly adj. Now archaic. 1. Fittingly, properly, suitably; as is meet. Also: †beautifully, handsomely (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > moderateness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] meetlyOE better?c1225 measurelyc1350 renablyc1350 measurablya1382 skilfullya1387 meanlya1398 moderatelya1398 temperately1398 reasonablyc1400 faira1413 mean1535 competently1541 meanably1577 tarblish1842 mediumly1852 quite1854 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adverb] > fittingly or properly welleOE fairOE meetlyOE rightOE worthlylOE haghelyc1175 worthilyc1175 becomelyc1200 properly?c1225 i-semelichec1275 thriftilyc1374 duly1382 sittinglyc1390 justlyc1392 rightfula1400 goodlyc1400 hemelyc1400 meeta1450 statelya1450 ensuingly?1518 handsomely1525 worshipfully1532 decently1552 due1581 meeterly1589 fairly1600 beseemingly1611 dightly1616 becomingly1624 befittingly1638 fittinglya1643 condecently1656 OE Aldhelm Glosses (Yale 401) in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 60 (1961) 441 Examussim : metlice. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10703 Þatt tu beo meoc. & herrsumm till þin elldre. & tatt tu wiþþ þin efenning Þe metelike lede. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1414 (MED) So þat þe mete & þe masse watz metely delyuered. 1502 King Henry VII in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 55 The King both with men and money metely and conveniently..wol yeve assistence. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 3069 Full metely made, of a meane lenght. 1635 R. Sanderson Two Serm. S. Pauls Crosse & Grantham i. 51 Then are wee meetly prepared for this service. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Proeme The manners also meetly copied from the rustical folk therein. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. xx. 46 The monarch meetly thanks express'd. a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) iii. 138 And with this ancient elephant there were meetly associated in Britain..many other mammals of corresponding magnitude. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 72 How I may..fix where change should meetly fall. 1975 New Yorker 26 May 116/3 Nevertheless, not even in Bach's own St. Thomas's, in Leipzig, are his cantatas today performed so meetly. 2. Moderately, fairly. Also as an intensifier: quite, very.Common in the 16th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adverb] mildlyOE moderatelya1398 middlelya1400 mediocrely?a1425 meetly1476 treatably1527 mildly1567 midway1596 mollifiedlya1640 meeverlya1800 1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 600 He is well spokyn jn Inglyshe, metly well in Frenshe, and verry parfite in Flemyshe. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xiiii. sig. H.iii Thys gyrle is a metely good pussell in a house, neuer idle, but euer occupied and busy. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Defin. Nowe haue you heard as touchyng circles meetely sufficient instruction. c1565 R. Copland Seuen Sorowes Women sig. Ciii^v Me thynke I lede a metely mery lyfe Whiche I should not yf that I wh[e]re a wyfe. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 45 I am meetly well purged of that disease. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 402 Tall of stature, and faire of complexion, their haire meetly yellow. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iv. 74 Turbot or Birt is meetly pleasant to the taste. 1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 339 A fine and meetly large Church. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros iii. 42 There is in these Isles a meetly good road and riding-place for ships. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1400adv.OE
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