Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.xii:

He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].

Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.

*1926 , (Ford Madox Ford), A Man Could Stand Up—'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 580:

*:An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 59:

Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.

Pleasantly; satisfactorily.

Adverb

(en adverb)

in a proper manner

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(obsolete) individually; in one's own manner

Now herkenyth how I bar me properly . — Chaucer.