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neatly, adv.|ˈniːtlɪ|
[f. neat a. + -ly2.]
In a neat manner or style.
1. So as to present a neat appearance; in a nicely finished way.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 187 If their woorkmanship bee neately, and equally wrought. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 75 They wear..pumps very neatly made. 1712–4Pope Rape Lock ii. 38 Twelve vast French Romances, neatly gilt. 1784Cowper Task ii. 587 There closely braced And neatly fitted, it..binds the shoulders flat. 1819Shelley Peter Bell 3rd vii. viii, A genteel drive..With sifted gravel neatly laid. 1860Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 61 My clothes folded neatly up.
2. With neatness or tidiness (in dress, etc.).
1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 172 b, Neither take we anie great care to be serued honourablie, neatelie, and reuerentlie. 1601Shakes. All's Well iv. iii. 168, I will neuer trust a man againe, for keeping his sword cleane, nor..wearing his apparrell neatly. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. iv. (1701) 235/1 Seeing a young man very neatly dress'd. 1735Berkeley Querist §60 Whether there be any instance of a state wherein the people, living neatly and plentifully, did not aspire to wealth?
3. With brevity, clearness, and point.
1570Marriage Wit & Sci. ii. iii. in Hazl. Dodsley II. 346 Ah flattering quean, how neatly she can talk! 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. Ep. Ded., In a matter nothing doubtfull to vse needlesse proofes, as Tullie neatly saith. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 54 Simonides expounded this point somewhat neatlier. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 10 How neatly Sir Theodore Mayhern delivers his Observation of this Animal. 1724Websted Wks. (1787) 378 Of Hyperboles..those are the best which are the neatliest couched. 1884Manch. Exam. 24 Nov. 6/1 It may be doubted whether a ticklish point was ever put more neatly.
4. Cleverly, dexterously.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 252 To haue a boy..neatly placed behind him vnder his large robes. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 341 Averring, that he onely counterfeited a face of modesty, the more neatly to hide the cruelty of his heart. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 88 A notable Skirmish..wherein they were neatly intrapp'd. 1860Motley Netherl. ix. (1868) II. 35 The plan was neatly carried out. 1890Baker Wild Beasts I. 131 You naturally wish to kill your animal neatly.
5. Comb., as neatly-finished, neatly-made, etc.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev.. iv. v, I am the neatlyest-made gallant i' the companie. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xxxvii. §2 (1689) 233 The very best and neatliest spun Hemp yarn. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Parish vii, There was a neatly-written bill in the parlour window. 1859W. Collins Q. of Hearts ii, Little neatly-gloved hands. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. ii. ii, With the neatliest finished border. |
