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winterly, a.|ˈwɪntəlɪ|
[OE. winterlic = OHG. wintarlîh (G. winterlich), ON. vetrligr, etc., f. winter n.1 + -ly1; but in modern use a new formation (cf. summerly).]
1. Of, belonging to, or occurring in winter. (Not always distinguishable from sense 2.)
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xi. 144 On þam timan wæs swiþe hefiᵹtime wynter..and se winterlica wind wan mid þam forste.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 34 Into whiche [sc. tropic of winter] whan he [sc. the sun] doth enter, he maketh his wynterly retorne backwarde. 1622Wither Faire-Virtue, etc. O 7 b, Those tresses of Haire, which thy youth doe adorne, Will looke like the Meads in a Winterly morne. 1628Venner Baths Advt. 13 For them..that are subiect to..cold winterly diseases. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars iii. 307 The Winterly Waters, and frequent shoures. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 215 The winterly frosts of Capricorn. 1889Mrs. Oliphant Poor Gentleman I. xii. 222 Even the winterly birds in the trees..were silent to-day.
2. Having the character of, or characteristic of, winter; resembling winter or that of winter; cold and cheerless; wintry.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Somerset (1662) 17 The Earth [of Somerset] in winter is as winterly, deep and dirty, as any in England. 1675tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. (ed. 3) 500 The Air growing more winterly in the Month of Aprill. 1703S. Sewall Diary 16 Mar., All things look horribly winterly by reason of a great storm of Snow. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xviii. (1818) II. 112 Though the summer has been so wet, and one may almost say winterly. 1858Mrs. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw II. 223 The winterly brown aspect of the trees. 1876J. Grant Burgh Sch. Scot. ii. v. 191 The fields wear a winterly face.
b. fig.
1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. iv. 13 If't be Summer Newes Smile too't before: if Winterly, thou need'st But keepe that count'nance stil. 1680Alsop Mischief Impos. vi. 40 Incendiaries who..will suffer none to be cool that are in them⁓selves of a more winterly temper. 1798M. Wollstonecraft Posth. Wks. IV. 76 Your note..produced a kind of winterly smile. 1864W. J. Linton Claribel i. iii, Let thy sweet spring smile Shine on me through this winterly contempt.
Hence ˈwinterliness.
1891W. Sharp in Mem. (1910) 174 With all the sunlit but yet sombre winterliness around. |