quaintlyadv.

Brit.

/ˈkweɪntli/, U.S.

/ˈkweɪn(t)li/

Forms: see quaint adj. and -ly suffix²; also late Middle English queintilich.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quaint adj., -ly suffix².

Etymology: < quaint adj. + -ly suffix².

†1.

a. Wisely, cleverly, ingeniously, esp. so as to accomplish some act or attain some end. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [adverb]

craftilyeOE

craftlyOE

smeighlyc1200

slylyc1275

quaintlyc1300

wittily1362

cunninglyc1385

subtilelyc1405

knowinglyc1450

industriouslyc1487

ingeniously1548

cleanly1583

intelligently1601

dexterously1605

conceitedly1606

cleverly1654

gnostically1823

comprehendingly1866

brainily1905

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skill or art > ingeniously

craftilyeOE

wiselya1000

guisily13..

quaintc1300

quaintlyc1300

subtly1340

cunningly?a1400

subtilelyc1405

prettilyc1450

industriouslyc1487

ingeniously1548

clerkly1594

ambidextrously1657

c1300 St. Barnabas (Laud) 24 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 27 (MED) He spac with heom so quoynteliche..Þat þar nas non of heom alle þat ne wondrede of his wisdam.

a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Knight who did Penance among Worms (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Queintli(e For thi did he quaintelye, Quen he gert wormes ete this man, To yem his sawel fra satan.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 1122 Þe kynges broþer & I ere scaped out fulle quantly.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 167 (MED) A newe Payne he founde, by the whyche fals Iuges queyntly he chastid.

a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid x. xi. (heading) Juno rycht quayntly causis Turnus to flee.

1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 21 He and his surveyed it quantitatively and queintly to the purpose.

1608 J. Day Law-trickes v. sig. H2^v I meane to try the vtmost of his wit, To see how quaintly he can beare himselfe.

1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 458 A Song is heard, the Musicke being queintly conueyed in a priuate roome, and not a person discouered.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week i. 79 I queintly stole a kiss.

a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 263 Those Points indeed you quaintly prove, But Logick is no Friend to Love.

1742 in W. Shenstone Wks. (1773) I. 323 Well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.

b. Cunningly, craftily; stealthily; by way of deceit. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adverb]

foxlyc1175

craftilyc1225

craftlyc1225

slylyc1275

fellyc1300

quaintc1300

quaintlyc1325

sleightlyc1330

subtly1340

sly1370

espyinglya1382

wisely1390

wililya1400

wilyc1400

subtilelyc1405

ginnouslya1425

semylyc1440

serpentlya1450

small?c1450

cautelously1477

politicly1477

sleightfullyc1480

artificiously1536

insidiously1545

sleightily1549

artificially1566

cunningly1603

versutely1616

artfully1631

subdolously1638

serpentinely1656

slimlya1680

pawkily1714

politically1764

trickfullyc1790

trickishly1824

leerily1859

dodgily1868

trickily1895

foxily1933

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2324 Þo biþoȝte vortiger..Hou he miȝte do quoyntelucst [a1400 Trin. Cambr. v.r. queyntlokest], þat he him sulf were king.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 4644 (MED) He coynted him queyntli with þo tvo ladies.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 741 (MED) Queyntly tauȝte he him þe gynne At þe wif to bigynne.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 4229 (MED) Wold þou qwayntly [v.r. whantly] of hym [sc. Samson] enquere wher in his wyghtnes most may ly.

a1500 (c1380) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 477 (MED) Se þe cautel of þe fend, hou quentely he haþ brouȝt þis yn.

a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. Prol. 240 Quhat slycht dissait quently to flat and feyn.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 11228 Cast is hit cointly by thies kene traytours..pryam to lose.

1591 (?a1425) Blind Chelidonian (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 241 (MED) He scornes us quiantlye..and doth us great anoye.

1632 P. Hausted Rivall Friends i. vii. sig. C4 How quaintly I shall gull my expecting Schollers.

†2. With artistry or technical skill; so as to produce something elaborate, intricate, or artistic. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skilled or elaborate workmanship

quaintlyc1300

curiously1340

finelya1400

exquisitely1535

c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 281 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 9 Salomon it [sc. the tree] liet felle and hewe ase quoynt-liche ase men miȝte.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 594 He made hire vnder erþe a woniinge quointeliche [v.r. coynteliche; a1400 Trin. Cambr. quinteliche].

a1400 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Egerton) (1937) 249 (MED) So quayntly [v.rr. quantelye, Quntely; richeliche] were þey [sc. cups] wrouȝt.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1923 Domus Dedaly..Nas mad so wonderlych..Ne half so queyntelych [v.r. queintilich] ywrought.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. vi. 125 A riche schield, wrocht quentlie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. v. 24 To carue out Dialls queintly, point by point.

1639 T. Bancroft Two Bks. Epigrammes & Epit. ii. sig. I How quaintly Heaven his fairest jewels sets To the Worlds view betwixt two counterfets!

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. lvii. 248 They could speak five or sixe several languages, and compose in them all very quaintly.

1799 J. Grahame Wallace iv. i. 61 I ne'er shot truer in my life—I brought him [sc. a buck] down so quaintly..just as he glanced past the opening among the hazels.

1814 H. W. Weber in Illustr. Antiq. Northern Hist. 71 In battle and in tournament quaintly the sword to wield.

1857 T. Martin tr. A. G. Oehlenschläger Aladdin iv. 108 Marble, agate stone, and jasper, quaintly carved and polished fine.

1894 J. Davidson Romantic Farce iii. 108 A cross Of gold, whereon in diamonds quaintly set Christ hung.

†3. Finely, elegantly; in a refined or attractive manner. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adverb]

fairlyOE

comelyOE

hendly?c1225

goodlyc1275

seemlya1325

sweet1338

quaintly1340

properlyc1390

well?a1400

comelilyc1400

seemlilyc1400

jollilyc1426

formally1548

handsomely1560

sightly1592

handsome1600

winsomely17..

nicely1714

in one's best (also worst) looks1816

presentably1848

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 47 (MED) Leuedys..diȝteþ ham þe more quaynteliche..uor to maki musi þe foles to ham.

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 24 (MED) Summe putten hem to pruide, apparaylden hem þer-after In Cuntinaunce of cloþinge queinteliche de-Gyset.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 72 She hadde now arayed me queynteliche and nobleche.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos x. 40 Wyth the ladyes he byhaued him soo queyntli swete..and curtoys.

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. H^v A Murrey Cloth gowne..which he quaintly bare vppe, to shew his white Taffata hose.

c1610 S. Rowlands Terrible Battell 31 The quaintly suted Courtier in attyre.

a1645 W. Browne Inner Temple Maske (1868) i. 256 Circe was seene upon the rocke, quaintly attyr'd..an Anadem of flowers on her head.

1713 J. Smith tr. G. Chaucer Poems upon Several Occasions 310 The Chamber well his blooming Thoughts express'd, Spruc'd up with chearful Greens, and quaintly dress'd.

†4. Strangely; remarkably. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. l. 101 (MED) Qweynteliche..wrouht hastou ofte.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 13096 (MED) Thys Venus trewly Was Arrayed queyntely, ffor hyr clothys and hyr array Defoulyd wern with donge and clay.

a1500 (?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) 1641 Right vnsemely on queynte manere He hym dight, as ye shalle here. A barbor..shove hym bothe byhynd & byfore, Queyntly endentyd oute and in, And also he shove halfe his chynne.

5. In an unusual manner; esp. in a pleasingly unusual or old-fashioned manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adverb] > quaintly

quaintly1742

1742 P. Yorke Let. 15 Dec. in G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) II. vii. 43 Charles is watring the Quorum of Bennet, ten miles round; or, to speak less quaintly, is treating away at Cambridge.

1782 W. Cowper Let. 18 Nov. (1981) II. 91 A tale ridiculous in itself and quaintly told.

1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iii. 176 One quaintly apparell'd like a surpliced priest Led the procession.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. ix. 319 His anger, as his secretary quaintly remarks, was 'more than was good for his health'.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. xlv. 11 She had added the date in quaintly formed figures.

1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) iv. 178 A father's sister, quaintly enough, is called father.

1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 64/1 All the ladies were quaintly dressed in shirtwaists with leg-of-mutton sleeves, long skirts and sailor hats.

1995 Times Mag. 8 July 52/3 Both Time and Newsweek have run cover stories recently on what they quaintly refer to as Cyberporn.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quaintly
释义	quaintlyadv. Brit. /ˈkweɪntli/, U.S. /ˈkweɪn(t)li/ Forms: see quaint adj. and -ly suffix²; also late Middle English queintilich. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quaint adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: < quaint adj. + -ly suffix². †1. a. Wisely, cleverly, ingeniously, esp. so as to accomplish some act or attain some end. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [adverb] craftilyeOE craftlyOE smeighlyc1200 slylyc1275 quaintlyc1300 wittily1362 cunninglyc1385 subtilelyc1405 knowinglyc1450 industriouslyc1487 ingeniously1548 cleanly1583 intelligently1601 dexterously1605 conceitedly1606 cleverly1654 gnostically1823 comprehendingly1866 brainily1905 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skill or art > ingeniously craftilyeOE wiselya1000 guisily13.. quaintc1300 quaintlyc1300 subtly1340 cunningly?a1400 subtilelyc1405 subtilelyc1405 prettilyc1450 industriouslyc1487 ingeniously1548 clerkly1594 ambidextrously1657 c1300 St. Barnabas (Laud) 24 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 27 (MED) He spac with heom so quoynteliche..Þat þar nas non of heom alle þat ne wondrede of his wisdam. a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Knight who did Penance among Worms (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Queintli(e For thi did he quaintelye, Quen he gert wormes ete this man, To yem his sawel fra satan. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 1122 Þe kynges broþer & I ere scaped out fulle quantly. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 167 (MED) A newe Payne he founde, by the whyche fals Iuges queyntly he chastid. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid x. xi. (heading) Juno rycht quayntly causis Turnus to flee. 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 21 He and his surveyed it quantitatively and queintly to the purpose. 1608 J. Day Law-trickes v. sig. H2^v I meane to try the vtmost of his wit, To see how quaintly he can beare himselfe. 1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 458 A Song is heard, the Musicke being queintly conueyed in a priuate roome, and not a person discouered. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week i. 79 I queintly stole a kiss. a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 263 Those Points indeed you quaintly prove, But Logick is no Friend to Love. 1742 in W. Shenstone Wks. (1773) I. 323 Well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. b. Cunningly, craftily; stealthily; by way of deceit. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adverb] foxlyc1175 craftilyc1225 craftlyc1225 slylyc1275 fellyc1300 quaintc1300 quaintlyc1325 sleightlyc1330 subtly1340 sly1370 espyinglya1382 wisely1390 wililya1400 wilyc1400 subtilelyc1405 ginnouslya1425 semylyc1440 serpentlya1450 small?c1450 cautelously1477 politicly1477 sleightfullyc1480 artificiously1536 insidiously1545 sleightily1549 artificially1566 cunningly1603 versutely1616 artfully1631 subdolously1638 serpentinely1656 slimlya1680 pawkily1714 politically1764 trickfullyc1790 trickishly1824 leerily1859 dodgily1868 trickily1895 foxily1933 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2324 Þo biþoȝte vortiger..Hou he miȝte do quoyntelucst [a1400 Trin. Cambr. v.r. queyntlokest], þat he him sulf were king. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 4644 (MED) He coynted him queyntli with þo tvo ladies. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 741 (MED) Queyntly tauȝte he him þe gynne At þe wif to bigynne. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 4229 (MED) Wold þou qwayntly [v.r. whantly] of hym [sc. Samson] enquere wher in his wyghtnes most may ly. a1500 (c1380) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 477 (MED) Se þe cautel of þe fend, hou quentely he haþ brouȝt þis yn. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. Prol. 240 Quhat slycht dissait quently to flat and feyn. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 11228 Cast is hit cointly by thies kene traytours..pryam to lose. 1591 (?a1425) Blind Chelidonian (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 241 (MED) He scornes us quiantlye..and doth us great anoye. 1632 P. Hausted Rivall Friends i. vii. sig. C4 How quaintly I shall gull my expecting Schollers. †2. With artistry or technical skill; so as to produce something elaborate, intricate, or artistic. Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adverb] > with skilled or elaborate workmanship quaintlyc1300 curiously1340 finelya1400 exquisitely1535 c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 281 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 9 Salomon it [sc. the tree] liet felle and hewe ase quoynt-liche ase men miȝte. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 594 He made hire vnder erþe a woniinge quointeliche [v.r. coynteliche; a1400 Trin. Cambr. quinteliche]. a1400 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Egerton) (1937) 249 (MED) So quayntly [v.rr. quantelye, Quntely; richeliche] were þey [sc. cups] wrouȝt. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1923 Domus Dedaly..Nas mad so wonderlych..Ne half so queyntelych [v.r. queintilich] ywrought. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. vi. 125 A riche schield, wrocht quentlie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. v. 24 To carue out Dialls queintly, point by point. View more context for this quotation 1639 T. Bancroft Two Bks. Epigrammes & Epit. ii. sig. I How quaintly Heaven his fairest jewels sets To the Worlds view betwixt two counterfets! 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. lvii. 248 They could speak five or sixe several languages, and compose in them all very quaintly. 1799 J. Grahame Wallace iv. i. 61 I ne'er shot truer in my life—I brought him [sc. a buck] down so quaintly..just as he glanced past the opening among the hazels. 1814 H. W. Weber in Illustr. Antiq. Northern Hist. 71 In battle and in tournament quaintly the sword to wield. 1857 T. Martin tr. A. G. Oehlenschläger Aladdin iv. 108 Marble, agate stone, and jasper, quaintly carved and polished fine. 1894 J. Davidson Romantic Farce iii. 108 A cross Of gold, whereon in diamonds quaintly set Christ hung. †3. Finely, elegantly; in a refined or attractive manner. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adverb] fairlyOE comelyOE hendly?c1225 goodlyc1275 seemlya1325 sweet1338 quaintly1340 properlyc1390 well?a1400 comelilyc1400 seemlilyc1400 jollilyc1426 formally1548 handsomely1560 sightly1592 handsome1600 winsomely17.. nicely1714 in one's best (also worst) looks1816 presentably1848 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 47 (MED) Leuedys..diȝteþ ham þe more quaynteliche..uor to maki musi þe foles to ham. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 24 (MED) Summe putten hem to pruide, apparaylden hem þer-after In Cuntinaunce of cloþinge queinteliche de-Gyset. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 72 She hadde now arayed me queynteliche and nobleche. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos x. 40 Wyth the ladyes he byhaued him soo queyntli swete..and curtoys. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. H^v A Murrey Cloth gowne..which he quaintly bare vppe, to shew his white Taffata hose. c1610 S. Rowlands Terrible Battell 31 The quaintly suted Courtier in attyre. a1645 W. Browne Inner Temple Maske (1868) i. 256 Circe was seene upon the rocke, quaintly attyr'd..an Anadem of flowers on her head. 1713 J. Smith tr. G. Chaucer Poems upon Several Occasions 310 The Chamber well his blooming Thoughts express'd, Spruc'd up with chearful Greens, and quaintly dress'd. †4. Strangely; remarkably. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. l. 101 (MED) Qweynteliche..wrouht hastou ofte. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 13096 (MED) Thys Venus trewly Was Arrayed queyntely, ffor hyr clothys and hyr array Defoulyd wern with donge and clay. a1500 (?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) 1641 Right vnsemely on queynte manere He hym dight, as ye shalle here. A barbor..shove hym bothe byhynd & byfore, Queyntly endentyd oute and in, And also he shove halfe his chynne. 5. In an unusual manner; esp. in a pleasingly unusual or old-fashioned manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adverb] > quaintly quaintly1742 1742 P. Yorke Let. 15 Dec. in G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) II. vii. 43 Charles is watring the Quorum of Bennet, ten miles round; or, to speak less quaintly, is treating away at Cambridge. 1782 W. Cowper Let. 18 Nov. (1981) II. 91 A tale ridiculous in itself and quaintly told. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iii. 176 One quaintly apparell'd like a surpliced priest Led the procession. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. ix. 319 His anger, as his secretary quaintly remarks, was 'more than was good for his health'. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. xlv. 11 She had added the date in quaintly formed figures. 1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) iv. 178 A father's sister, quaintly enough, is called father. 1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 64/1 All the ladies were quaintly dressed in shirtwaists with leg-of-mutton sleeves, long skirts and sailor hats. 1995 Times Mag. 8 July 52/3 Both Time and Newsweek have run cover stories recently on what they quaintly refer to as Cyberporn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1300
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