Feastly vs Featly - What's the difference?
feastly | featly |
Wont to or fond of festive occasions.
* 2003 , Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "Babe?-Bolyai"), Colloquia: journal of Central European history :
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
* 1994 , University of British Columbia. Dept. of Creative Writing, Prism international :
Properly; suitably.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.1:
*:Why may not a man beare himselfe betweene enemies featly and faithfully?
With skill or talent; cleverly, skilfully.
Gracefully or elegantly.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
Skilful.
Graceful or elegant.
As adjectives the difference between feastly and featly
is that feastly is wont to or fond of festive occasions while featly is skilful.As an adverb featly is
properly; suitably.feastly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Royal entrances not only provide for feast and, implicitly, collective feastly behaviour but they themselves are feasts equivalent with the ordinary feasts on the agenda of a particular place.
- So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for [...]
featly
English
Adverb
(er)- [...] Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.