Coolly

adv. [f. COOL a. + -LY².]

  1.  In a cool condition, with coolness.

1611.  Coryat, Crudities, 155. They may walke there very coolely euen at noon.

1633.  P. Fletcher, Pisc. Ecl., VII. x. The aire … did coolly glide Through every part.

1727–30.  Thomson, Summer, 463. Thrice happy he! who … in the gelid caverns, woodbine-wrought … Sits coolly calm.

  2.  fig. Without the heat of passion or emotion; without haste or excitement; calmly, collectedly.

1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Attrempément … temperately, coolely, moderately.

1640.  Bp. Hall, Chr. Moder., 9/2. This safe liquor will send the guests home coolly tempered.

1779.  Johnson, L. P., Dryden, Wks. II. 418. When admiration had subsided, the translation was more coolly examined.

1875.  Helps, Anim. & Mast., vii. 161. The cab-driver meanwhile was taking it very coolly.

  3.  Without fervor, enthusiasm, or friendly warmth; with an air of indifference.

1626.  W. Sclater, Exp. 2 Thess. (1632), 7. Compare the carriage of Pauls gratulation here, with that in the former Epistle: Coolely me thinkes, in comparison, it there runs.

1709.  Hearne, Collect., 4 April. He promis’d me but coolly.

1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 206. Lewis at first affected to receive these propositions coolly.

  4.  With calm and unabashed assurance.

1844.  Emerson, Lect. Yng. Amer., Wks. (Bohn), II. 301. Agricultural chemistry coolly … offering … to turn a sandbank into corn.

1884.  Manch. Exam., 4 Dec., 5/1. This essential point was coolly taken for granted.