a. [f. as prec. + -LIKE.] After the style or manner of the Court; courtly, elegant, polite.
1552. in Huloet.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 215. Abandoning all courtlike statelynesse. Ibid. (1587), Contn. Holinshed, III. 1308/1. Of all the bishops in the land he was accounted the courtlikest and the best courtier.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1636), 28. I think that our English tongue is … as Courtlike as the French.
1681. Otway, Soldier’s Fort., I. i. Very Court-like, civil quaint and new.
1837. Lytton, E. Maltrav., 50. Her wit was keen and court-like.
1866. Daily Tel., 3 Feb., 5/4. In the words of a fashionable and courtlike journal.
b. Resembling a court; see COURT sb.1 2.
c. 1630. Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 314 (1810), 326. This ancient court-like house … is seated near a navigable river.
