adv. Also 6 choselie; and see CHOICE a. [f. CHOICE a. + -LY2.] In a choice manner: with careful choice, with special care, carefully, specially, discriminatingly; daintily, exquisitely, excellently.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 1752. The posterne of that perles erber, That was to Meliors chaumber choisli a joyned.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 2772. My Sister Exiona fro seruage to brynge. That shal be choisly your charge.
c. 1425. Leg. Rood, 218. To seche a childe þat choisly chees In maydenes blode to blome.
1570. Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 137. In euerie separate kinde of learning and studie … ye must follow, choselie a few, and chieflie some one.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 12. Choycely picked out from all the rest.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry (1611), 137. Keeping them exceeding choicely.
1678. H. Vaughan, Thalia Rediv. (1858), 221. This they do most slow Because most choicely.
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., iv. § 19 (1689), 50. So choicely handled, as not to be in the least bruised.
1797. in Nicolas, Disp. Nelson, II. 456. Our Ship … will be choicely manned.
1832. Tennyson, Palace Art, xxxvii. Below was all mosaic choicely plann’d.
1862. Ruskin, Munera Pulv. (1880), 60. To furnish choicely his stable, or his cellar.
