LORD'LY, a. [lord and like.]
1. Becoming a lord; pertaining to a lord.
Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
Every rich and lordly swain, with pride would drag about her chain.
LORD'LY, adv. Proudly; imperiously; despotically.
A famished lion, issuing from the wood, roars lordly fierce.
