COURTLY

a. adv.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Relating or belonging to a court.

2.
a.

Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak.

3.
a.

Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. Macualay.

4.
adv.

In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden


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