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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

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Relating or belonging to a court.

Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.

courtly

company or at my beads.

Shakespeare

Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious.

Macaulay.

adv.

In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.

They can produce nothing so

courtly

writ.

Dryden

Adj.

[court and like.] Relating to a court; elegant; polite with dignity; applied to men and manners; flattering, applied to language.

adv.

In the manner of courts; elegantly; in a flattering manner.