Beely vs Seely - What's the difference?
beely | seely |
Of, relating to or pertaining to bees; apian.
* 1877 , Elizabeth Anna Hart, Silver wings and golden scales :
* 1950 , Gleanings in bee culture:
In a beely or beelike manner.
* 1965 , Murray Hoyt, The world of bees :
* 1813 , Matteo Bandello, Joseph Haslewood, Giovanni Boccaccio, Palace of pleasure :
(obsolete) Lucky, fortunate.
(obsolete) Innocent; harmless.
(obsolete) Pitiable, deserving of sympathy; poor, miserable.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.57:
*:Whereas the poore, the banished, and seely servants, live often as carelesly and as pleasantly as the other.
(obsolete) Trifling, insignificant.
(obsolete) Silly, foolish.
As adjectives the difference between beely and seely
is that beely is of, relating to or pertaining to bees; apian while seely is lucky, fortunate.As an adverb beely
is in a beely or beelike manner.As a verb beely
is alternative form of lang=en.beely
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(en-adj)- As for bees, we cannot accuse them of silence, as the peculiar buzzing-sound they make in flying, [...] and which is so very agreeable to our ears when its gentle monotony enlivens the calm of the warm summer air, is, we may hope, a cheerful accompaniment to all beely labours, and as pleasant to those who make it as our voices are to us, [...]
- With their countenance' spaces Planned for beely enterprise [...]
Adverb
(en-adv)- His effort is to come as near 100 percent as is humanly (and beely ) possible.
Etymology 2
Variation of belie.Verb
- And were it not that I haue a desire in nothing to beely the author, and lesse will to leaue that which he had wrytten vpon the miserable end [...]
