a. [f. COUNT sb.2 + -LY1: cf. Ger. gräflich.] Of, pertaining to, or proper to a count.
1837. Keightley, Secr. Soc. Middle Ages, 347. Each freeschöppe who was admitted made him a present, to repair, as the laws express it, his countly hat.
1879. S. B. Gould, Germany, II. 187. No countly house in Germany has … produced such good … rulers.
