costlily

English

Etymology

From costly +‎ -ly.

Adverb

costlily (comparative more costlily, superlative most costlily)

1. In a costly manner.
   • 1803, Vasco Lobeira, [Robert Southey, transl.], chapter 32, in Amadis of Gaul, volume I, London: […] N[athaniel] Biggs, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], page 255:

     The assembly was wonderfully great; young Knights costlily armed and adorned, and Infantas who were King’s daughters, and Damsels of high degree, for whom their lovers were about to make pastime and pleasure.

   • 1827, Stories of Chivalry and Romance, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 43:

     Scarcely had these movements been accomplished, ere a costlily arrayed knight appeared before them, and by the mouth of the squire who accompanied him, demanded admission.

   • 1832, [Thomas Arnold], Dramatic Stories, volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 158:

     The newly arrived leader—Gonzelli—formed outwardly a complete contrast to the armed men about his brother, as well as to his brother also.—The latter was armed, and costlily.

   • 1836, [Frederic Mansel Reynolds], The Parricide. A Domestic Romance., volume II, London: Thomas Hookham, […], page 311:

     […] during an early hour on a fine summer’s morn, a stranger costlily appareled, and accompanied by two mounted domestics, galloped violently, into a frontier town.

   • 1841 October 15, Joseph Stillé, “Philadelphia Agricultural Exhibition”, in The Farmers’ Cabinet, and American Herd-Book, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural and Domestic Affairs, volume VI, number 3 (whole 81), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Kimber & Sharpless, […], published 1842, page 100, column 1:

     Now, in this, as in every thing else, there is a medium, and I suspect that in breeding so costlily and carefully, we are overstepping the bounds of moderation, and unfitting our stock to bear the vicissitudes of climate and a medium degree of exposure, encouraging their growth by over-nursing, with a view to create a fine coat and delicacy of handling.

   • 1846, Evliya Efendi, translated by Joseph von Hammer, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, volume I, part II, London: […] the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; […] William H. Allen & Co. […], page 127:

     They are costlily dressed in gold and rich stuffs, their girdles richly set with jewels, on their heads are suns and other ornaments of gold wire, and on their limbs costly trappings and fringes of the kind called Dídereí, and Dehdehí; another kind used to be worn by Persian Shátirs.

   • 1848, “The Isle of Man: its History, Physical, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Legendary. By the Rev. Joseph George Cumming, […].”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume XXIV, London: William Edward Painter, […], page 315:

     The question was quite another Schleswig-Holstein question, not more quickly but less costlily determined.

   • 1849, “On Domestic Oratories”, in The Ecclesiologist, new series, volume VI / volume IX, London: Joseph Masters […] ; Cambridge: E. Meadows, page 368:

     The walls above the stalls might be painted, or papered, or panelled, or (still preferably) covered with hangings, varying according to the season of the Church year, and, if the means of the household permit it, of rich stuff, and costlily embroidered.

   • 1855, Dr. Lushington’s Judgment, in the Case of Westerton v. Liddell, upon “Ornaments of the Church,” Considered by a Parish Priest, Who Has Not in Use the Articles Complained Of, London: Joseph Masters, […], page 12:

     […] I conclude that as “decent and comely” in the former case includes what is most elaborately and costlily carved, so in the other case “decent and meet” must, by analogy include what is most elaborately and costlily worked, i.e., if you please, “embroidered.”

   • 1866, Mrs. W[illia]m Pitt Byrne [i.e., Julia Clara Byrne], Cosas de España: Illustrative of Spain and the Spaniards as they are, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: Alexander Strahan, […], page 140:

     […] the result is a costlily decorated octagonal chamber, with a fine concave roof, measuring from 35 to 40 feet in diameter.

   • 1975, Tribune, page 12, column 1:

     And the sparrows are even more lovable—just as, believe it or not, they are even more costlily destructive—than squirrels.