[f. as prec. + -LY2.] In the manner or style of the Court; in courtly fashion.

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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.

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1668.  Dryden, Ess. Dram. Poetry, in Arb., Garner, III. 512. They can produce nothing so Courtly writ … as Sir John Suckling.

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1866.  Kingsley, Herew., I. vi. 177. You speak so courtly and clerkly, that I, too, am inclined to trust you.

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