adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a conceited manner.

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  † 1.  Cleverly, wittily, ingeniously. Obs.

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1606.  Holland, Sueton., 21. Cicero most pleasantly and conceitedly [said].

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1607.  Topsell, Serpents (1608), 653. A witty check … conceitedly to rebuke and hit in the teeth those shrewd women.

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  2.  Fancifully, whimsically; in the manner of a conceit. arch.

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1588.  J. Harvey, Disc. Probleme, 129. Conceitedly and phantastically devised.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., iii. Notes, 53. Sir Philip Sidney, to fit his Sonnet … conceitedly addes a froward, but chast, Lady for the seuenth.

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1635.  Wither, Emblems, To Rdr. Bookes conceitedly composed.

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1827.  Q. Rev., XXXV. 411. Horne Tooke’s … work, so happily denominated Επεα Πτεροεντα, and so conceitedly ‘Diversions of Purley.’

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  3.  In a conceited or self-satisfied manner.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., IX. xlvi. (1612), 216. Martialists in Discipline … the auncient vse, conceitedly, doe bar.

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1670.  Tryal Rudyard, etc., in Phenix (1707), I. 364. A Precedent or Foundation for such Judgments, Fines and Amercements, we challenge he City’s Recorder, and the conceitedly-learned Mayor, to shew or make out to the World by the Laws of England.

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1795.  Phantoms of Cloisters, I. 170. ‘I mean,’ said he, conceitedly, ‘when you’ll have the honour of being Lady Aberton.’

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1867.  Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 8. Thoroughly insignificant, conceitedly harmless.

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