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Webster 1913 Edition
Seely
Webster 1828 Edition
Seely
SEE'LY
,Adj.
1. Lucky; fortunate. Obs.
2. Silly; foolish; simple. Obs. [See Silly.]
Definition 2025
seely
seely
English
Adjective
seely (comparative seelier, superlative seeliest)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of sely or silly.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.57:
- Whereas the poore, the banished, and seely servants, live often as carelesly and as pleasantly as the other.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.57: