a. rare–1. [f. LORD sb. + -FUL.] Having the bearing of a lord; lordly. Hence Lordfully adv., in a lordly manner; nobly.
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun, 1178. This lordfulle child [sc. Jesus].
1836. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), IV. 185. They [the Lords] have said boldly and lordfully, ‘Here we stand, the offspring of the by-gone time.’
