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royally, adv.|ˈrɔɪəlɪ|
Also 4 roialliche, 4–7 -ally, 5 -aly; 6 royallie, -aly.
[f. royal a.]
1. With the pomp or splendour appropriate to a king or sovereign; magnificently, splendidly.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 378 It is ful fair to..haue a Mantel roialliche ybore. c1386― Knt.'s T. 1687 On huntyng be they riden roially. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1487 In a chayar, apparaylyd royally, There sate Dame Doctryne. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn liv. 211 The beautifull Queene was royally led to and from the Church..by two Kings. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 72, I suld at fairis be found..To schaw my renoun, royaly. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 73 All the..quadrantes, bayes and edificies, were royally entrayled. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 603 It shall be so my care, To haue you royally appointed, as if The Scene you play, were mine. 1638Knolles Hist. Turks (ed. 5) 52 Isaac.., royally mounted vpon one of the Emperors horses,..was by them brought from the temple to the court. 1812Examiner 14 Sept. 578/1 His children were not royally brought up. 1864Skeat tr. Uhland's Poems 412 Around him he gazes, and ne'er can tire Of the pomp so royally bright. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus vii. 6 Where royally Battus old reposeth.
2. With the power or authority of a king; in a manner befitting a king.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) i. 58 A-boue all kynges..Royally I reigne in welthe with-out woo. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 258 Kyng Henry ouercame the Frenshe Kynge royally in batayll. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 1712 Greit King Humanitie, That in my Regioun Royally dois ring. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 21 The Castle royally is mann'd, my Lord, Against thy entrance. 1795Southey Joan of Arc i. 367 When Desolation royally careers Over thy wretched country. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxvi, George pooh-poohed the wine and bullied the waiters royally. 1885Mag. of Art Sept. 452/1 His grandparents had a good right to leave their mark on the town. They conquered it right royally.
b. colloq. Gloriously (drunk).
1836E. Howard R. Reefer v, Getting royally drunk.
3. With royal munificence or liberality.
1601Ld. Mountjoy in Moryson Itin. (1617) ii. 134 If in those two kinds we be not royally supplied, men and money will serve us to little purpose. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. ii. 3 The soldiers considering how this captain entreated them very royally [etc.]. 1781Cowper Hope 118 Bestow'd on man..Royally, freely, for his bounty sake. 1865Kingsley Herew. xxvi, Hereward is a man of his word, and pays his soldiers' wages royally.
†4. In a monarchical manner; monarchically.
c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. i. (1885) 110 Wereby it may appere..that it was bettir to the peple to be ruled politekely and roialy, than to be ruled only roialy. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 250 They shoulde returne into Portugall more roially affected. |