lordly

adj

1. Of or relating to a lord.

   “Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.”

   “But they are the peers of the Queensland Parliament, and, having no lordly robes, must approach the Old Country model as closely as possible.”

   “[I]n that some form of duty and sacrifice (here, participation in the 1848 Revolution and a recognition of his lordly duty) is not only beneficially character-forming but also leads ultimately to a condition which is 'sublime'.”

   “Samson, in reply to this, says, “If you are not lordly, nor value your lordly title, as you tell me, and I trust in truth and sincerity, shall I call you a phoenix?”

   “[H]e's still got his lordly habits, and more so since coming out of the war as a general.' 'A colonel, Sammy,' said Rachel. 'Same thing, good as,' said Sammy. 'Boots, of course, does wear his lordly crown with style,' said Rachel. 'Don't I know it?”

2. Having the qualities of a lord; lordlike; noble

   “Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.”

3. Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.

   “He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought forth butter in a lordly dish.”

   “It had also its Hall, called the Priory—an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned; […]”

   “The maidens gathered strength and grace / And presence, lordlier than before.”

   “There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.”

   “That night the whisky was unstoppered and Bradly lolled in bed, smoking, and betimes sweeping out an arm of conquest for his nobbler and taking a lordly pull at it.”

4. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

   “Lords are Lordlieſt in thir wine; […]”

5. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of lordly.

adv

1. In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.

   “1891, Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation, Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, page 56, […] / And Herod's painted pinnaces, ablaze / With lamps, and brazen shields and spangled slaves, / Came and went lordly at Tiberias; / […]”

   “Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.”