adv. and a. [f. WORKMAN sb. + -LY.]
A. adv. = WORKMANLIKE A.; efficiently, skilfully.
1467. York Memorandum Bk. (Surtees), I. 185. Suche girdelles as be clerely and warkmanly made upp.
1523. [Coverdale], Old God & New (1534), C j. An ymage of his father very cunnyngly and workemanly carued.
1543. Bale, Yet a Course, 27. That he hath not gone processyon vpon saturdayes at euensonge, nor workemanlye made hys holye water and holy breade. Ibid. (1545), Image Both Ch., I. Pref. (1550), A vi b. The beastes head that was wounded, is now healed vp againe so workemanly. Ibid. (1550), Engl. Votaries, II. 104. Here was a gnat workemanly strayned out to swalowe in a camell for it.
1591. Harington, Orl. Fur., To Rdr. (1634), A 1. Some three or foure pretie pictures (in octavo) cut in brasse very workmanly.
1656. Dugdale, Antiq. Warw., 355/2. To make and set up, finely and workmanly, a parclose of timber.
1905. Times Lit. Suppl., 1 Sept., 279/2. The four famous folio volumes workmanly bound in grey boards and canvas.
B. adj. = WORKMANLIKE B. (esp. sense 2).
1545. Bale, Myst. Iniq., 43. Marke the good workemanlye handelynge … therof.
1570. Levins, Manip., 100/47. Workemanly, artificiosus.
1582. Mulcaster, 1st Pt. Elem. (1925), 64. Whatsoeuer shall belong to coloring, to shadowing, and such more workmanlie points.
1590. Webbe, Trav. (Arb.), 33. The roofes are couered with fine gold, in a very workemanly sort.
1766. Blackstone, Comm., II. xxx. 452. He has it upon an implied contract to render it again when made, and that in a workmanly manner.
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. iii. § 4. Rudders, and yards, and cables, all needing workmanly handling and workmanly knowledge.
1907. Times, 22 May, 3/2. Not only the best architectural, but the best workmanly, skill has been employed.
