[f. as prec. + -LY2.] In the manner or style of the Court; in courtly fashion.
a. 1592. Greene, James IV. (1861), 194. Then will I deck thee princely, instruct the courtly, and present thee to the queen as my gift.
1668. Dryden, Ess. Dram. Poetry, in Arb., Garner, III. 512. They can produce nothing so Courtly writ as Sir John Suckling.
1866. Kingsley, Herew., I. vi. 177. You speak so courtly and clerkly, that I, too, am inclined to trust you.