† sizelyadv.
Obsolete. rare.
Nicely, daintily. Cf. Ray's northern word ‘Sizely, nice, proud, coy’.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adverb]
over-delicately1357
preciouslyc1430
daintethlyc1440
pickedlya1528
finely1542
nicely1547
fastidiously?1555
daintily1561
curiously1573
sizely?1578
fine1579
overnicely1582
squeamishly1606
finically1659
just so1683
superfinely1693
hypercritically1715
meticulously1900
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 28 Three prety puzels..before the Bryde: syzely with set coountenauns, and lips so demurely simpring, az it had been a mare cropping of a thistl.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 39 The coorsez wear not so orderly serued & sizely set dooun, but wear by and by az disorderly wasted and coorsly consumed.
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