▪ I. ˈtrimly, a. rare.
[f. trim a. + -ly1.]
Having a trim character.
| 1858 Mrs. Gore Heckington I. xiii. 274 Estates and mansions [so] left..are now..of rare occurrence in our trimly island. |
▪ II. trimly, adv.
(ˈtrɪmlɪ)
[f. trim a. + -ly2.]
In a trim manner.
† 1. Effectively, thoroughly, soundly, properly; cleverly, featly, neatly, nicely; finely, well. Obs.
| 1503–13 Dunbar Poems liii. 200 Quhen I saw hir sa trimlye dance, Hir guid conwoy and countenance. 1556 Olde Antichrist 171 Being trymlye furnished in false wyles and lies. 1579–80 North Plutarch (1676) 489 Little showers..which.. make the Earth bring forth all things very trimly. 1600 Fairfax Tasso vi. xcvii, This formost hazard had she trimly past. 1623 Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Pref. 11 Harke ye..how trimly this sounds in English. 1679 C. Nesse Antid. agst. Popery 133 Scaliger truly and trimly told the Jesuits. |
2. So as to be neat, elegant, or smart in appearance or effect; neatly; finely, smartly.
| 1523 [Coverdale] Old God & New (1534) P j, They shall haue trymly garnyshed & decked the aulters with many ymages. 1545 Elyot, Candide uestitus, trymmely apparayled... Concinne, properly, honestly, trymly. 1588 Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 331 The women [with] their haire trimly kembed and dressed. 1645 Milton Colast. Wks. 1851 IV. 348 The stuff, though very cours and thredbare, garnisht and trimly fac't with the commendation of a Licencer. c 1728 Somerville To A. Ramsay 65 In all her richest head-geer trimly clad. 1879 Butcher & Lang Odyssey vii. 107 All manner of garden beds, planted trimly. |