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shepherdly, a. Now rare.|ˈʃɛpədlɪ|
[f. shepherd n. + -ly1.]
Pertaining to or befitting a shepherd (lit. and fig.); that has the characteristics of a shepherd; † that is a shepherd.
1559[P. H. Phayer] Bk. Presidentes 5 b, And with a shepherdly reward wytsaue ye hym to fauour. Ibid. 6 Other thinges..which to your shepherdly office in this behalf belong. 1579Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune ii. v. 167 a, That shepheardlie founder of the citie of Rome. 1656W. Dugard tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §340. 95 In some places the shepherdly multitude do also carry about their cottages in waines. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. v. iii. (1852) 277 To leave their off-spring under the shepherdly government of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1877S. A. Tipple Echoes of Spoken Words 22 The truly high position..is that which enables us to minister richly to our fellows, to shield them, guide them, relieve them and be shepherdly toward them. 1884J. Parker Apost. Life III. 46 A man with a great shepherdly heart.
†b. Pastoral, rural, rustic. Obs.
1579Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune ii. cxiv. 304 This is not only a poetical, but also a shepheardly speech. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xi. (Arb.) 41 Their poems were named Eglogues or shepheardly talke. 1656Artif. Handsom. 20 The primitive plainness and shepherdly simplicity of those times. 1743H. Walpole Let. to Mann 14 Apr., I hate the country: I am past the shepherdly age of groves and streams. |