featously
English
Etymology
From featous + -ly.
Adverb
featously (comparative more featously, superlative most featously)
- (obsolete) Attractively, beautifully.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- Fetislich hir fyngres · were fretted with golde wyre / And þere-on red rubyes · as red as any glede.
- c. 1570, Richard Edwardes, in Collected Works, Manchester 2001:
- Mansell is a merry one and is right worthy love, / Whom Nature wrought so featously her cunning for to prove.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II: