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slightly, adv.|ˈslaɪtlɪ|
Also 6 slyghtly, sleyghtly, sleightlie, 6–7 -ly.
[f. slight a. + -ly2. Cf. MDu. and MLG. slechte-, slichtelik(e, MHG. slehtlîch(e, G. schlechtlich.]
1. Slimly, slenderly; flimsily, unsubstantially.
1521Coventry Leet-bk. 673 That they put sufficient stuf in them.., and that they make them not slyghtly. 1529Act 21 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §1 Traces, halters and other tacle ben by the said persons sleyghtly and deceyvably made. 1549–50Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI, c. 2 §1 The same Clothes soe sleightlie and subtillye made. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 22 So that my Arrowes Too slightly timbred for so loud a Winde, Would haue reuerted. 1635–56Cowley Davideis ii. 325 That fatal net, Which though but slightly wrought, was firmly set. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 148 To raise the prices..and manufacture the said goods more slightly and fraudulently than before. 1745Pococke Descr. East II. i. 197 A well of good water, from which the city is supplied by an aqueduct very slightly built. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xi, She was quite a child,..slightly built.
b. Loosely, slackly.
1599Shakes. Much Ado i. i. 289 The guardes are but slightly basted on. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 967 The facil gates of hell too slightly barrd. 1821Scott Kenilw. v, The flower had been stuck so slightly into the cap.
2. Without much care or attention; carelessly; lightly.
a1557M. Basset Let. in More's Wks. 1435/1 For the instruction of my conscience in the matter, I haue not sleightly looked, but by many yeres studied & aduisedly considred. 1594Kyd Cornelia i, [Fortune] slightly sowes that sildom taketh roote. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 197, I slightly passe over the places described in my former passage those waies. 1679Moxon Mech. Exerc. vii. 120 He that knows how to work curiously, may when he lists work slightly. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. iii, I know they are too valuable to be so slightly kept. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 36 Affection may try to..pass slightly over the darker evidence against him.
b. Without much interest, insistence, or heartiness; indifferently.
1599Drayton Idea viii, I say I loue, you slightly aunswer I? 1709Swift Vind. Bickerstaff Wks. 1757 II. i. 174 There is one objection..which I have sometimes met with, though indeed very slightly offered. 1779Johnson L.P., Mallet, When Mallet entered one day, Pope asked him slightly what there was new. 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. v. 78 Mrs. Draper slightly returned the farewell of her visitors.
c. With slight exertion or effort. rare.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 112 You haue by Fortune..Gone slightly o're lowe steppes. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 58 He catched at the upmost bar with his left hand, and, throwing himself slightly over, opened the gate.
3. Easily, readily; weakly.
1594Kyd Cornelia 11, He that retyres not at the threats of death, Is not, as are the vulgar, slightly fraied. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 167 You were too blame,..To part so slightly with your wiues first gift. c1605Rowley Birth of Merlin iv. i, Is it the weakest part I found in thee To doubt of me so slightly? 1646J. Whitaker Uzziah 4, I should wrong goodnesse.., if I should sleightly give that title to unknown persons. 1825Scott Betrothed xix, She has..advisers, who may not..recommend to her to sit down slightly with this injury.
4. With little respect or ceremony; disparagingly, slightingly. Now rare.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. ii, I'le censure it slightly, and ridiculously. 1623in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 244 The sending of the young Prince and ould gentlleman so slightly from the Kinge is by some conjectered to bee a ploott. 1654Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 136 Walter Montague doth proceed to speeke very slitly of the Kings commands. a1779Warburton Wks. (1811) IX. 260 Learned Men, who have affected to think slightly of the Religion of their Country. 1825Scott Betrothed xv, I am not to be treated as an ordinary person, who may be received with negligence, and treated slightly with impunity. 1892Lumsden Sheep-head 289 The country lass they'll slightly pass, An she were dirt.
5. In a slight or small degree; to a slight extent.
1594Kyd Cornelia v. 331 O radiant Sunne that slightly guildst our dayes. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess., Liberty, I do but slightly touch upon all these particulars of the slavery of Greatness. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxviii, He bade her good morning, and, bowing slightly to the count, disappeared. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxvi, As the Duke tapped slightly at it, a person..unlocked the door. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. ii. vi, He had breakfasted but slightly. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 17 Sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
b. Used to qualify a following pple. or adj.
1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iii. xiii. 70 My cause, but slightly knowne, May mooue the harts of warlike Myrmydons. a1700Evelyn Diary 3 June 1666, The Duke of Albemarle was slightly wounded. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §8 Those who are even slightly read in our philosophy. 1747Wesley Prim. Physick (1762) 108 A slice of Apple slightly boiled. 1791Gentl. Mag. 22/1 A servant maid, who from her childhood had been slightly deaf. 1835J. Duncan Beetles (Nat. Lib.) 126 The outer edge of the elytra is slightly sinuated at the apex. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 371 To William he was already slightly known. 1884Cent. Mag. Jan. 419/2 After a heavy rain the stream was..slightly darker in hue.
c. Forming attributive collocations with pples. or adjs., and frequently hyphened.
1800Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 245 Slightly hairy Trichechus. 1804Ibid. V. i. 48 Slightly gilded Salmon. 1829W. Ellis Polynesian Res. I. ii. 55 Resembling..the white of a slightly boiled egg. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 311 Slightly-worn and angular flints. 1837J. T. Smith tr. Vicat's Mortars 26 A large disengagement of hot slightly-caustic vapour. 1892Greener Breech-Loader 54 Slightly-used guns of their cheaper qualities. |