adv. ? Obs. [f. COMELY a. + -LY2.] In a comely manner; prettily, decently, becomingly, suitably.

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c. 1340.  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 974. He kysses hir comlyly.

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c. 1369.  Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 847 (Fairfax MS.). I sawgh hyr daunce so comelely.

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1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. 66. That al thinges be done comlily and according to order.

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1666.  J. Smith, Old Age (1752), 164. They [the muscles] become shorter and narrower than that a man can be comelily wrapped up in them.

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