Category:Courtly

Court"ly (-l), a. Etym: [From Court.]

1. Relating or belonging to a court.

2. Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak.

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

courtly Court"ly, adv.

Defn: In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden