A. adj. Dignified, majestic, stately. B. adv. In a stately manner.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, V. 823. She sobre was, ek symple, and wyse withalle … Charytable, estateliche, lusty, and fre. Ibid. (c. 1386), Monk’s T., 722. Julius … well loved estatly honesté.
14[?]. (title) A Noble Boke off Cookry ffor a Prynce Houssolde or eny other Estately Houssolde (ed. A. Napier 1882).
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (1840), 4. Sergeauntes and other officeres, Estatly horsed.
