Middle English Dictionary Entry
fētīslī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | fētīslī adv. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. fetli.
1.
(a) Ingeniously (made or contrived), artfully, elegantly, neatly; (b) skillfully (done), cleverly; handsomely, prettily, nicely; elegantly.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3205 : A chambre..Ful fetisly dight with herbes swoote.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.1742 : His felawe hadde..a poyntel polysshed fetisly.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1462 : Þe coperounes..Wer fetysely formed out in fylyoles longe.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)570 : Hir sleves [were] sewid fetisly.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)837 : In samet with briddis wrought, And with gold beten ful fetysly.
b
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)98 : Hov hertily þe herdes wif hules þat child & hov fayre it fedde & fetisliche it baþede.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.124 : And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire vnknowe.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.273 : His bootes clasped faire and fetisly.
- c1400(a1376) *PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)2.130 f.5b : Fals sat on a sisour..And Fauel vpon fair speche fetisliche atirid.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)577 : Whan she kempt was fetisly [F bien pignie].
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2267 : Of shon..Loke..that they sitte so fetisly That these rude may uttirly Merveyle.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)2.11 : Fetislich hir fyngres were fretted with golde wyre.