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conˈceitedly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a conceited manner.
†1. Cleverly, wittily, ingeniously. Obs.
1606Holland Sueton. 21 Cicero most pleasantly and conceitedly [said]. 1607Topsell Serpents (1608) 653 A witty check..conceitedly to rebuke and hit in the teeth those shrewd women.
2. Fancifully, whimsically; in the manner of a conceit. arch.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probleme 129 Conceitedly and phantastically devised. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. iii. Notes 53 Sir Philip Sidney, to fit his Sonnet..conceitedly addes a froward, but chast, Lady for the seuenth. 1635Wither Emblems To Rdr., Bookes conceitedly composed. 1827Q. Rev. XXXV. 411 Horne Tooke's..work, so happily denominated Επεα Πτεροεντα, and so conceitedly ‘Diversions of Purley’.
3. In a conceited or self-satisfied manner.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlvi. (1612) 216 Martialists in Discipline..the auncient vse, conceitedly, doe bar. 1670in Phenix (1721) I. 364 The conceitedly-learned Mayor. 1795Phantoms of Cloisters I. 170, ‘I mean’, said he, conceitedly, ‘when you'll have the honour of being Lady Aberton’. 1867Carlyle Remin. (1881) II. 8 Thoroughly insignificant, conceitedly harmless. |