a. and adv. Also 6–7 souldier-, 7 soldiour-, 8 Sc. sogerly. [f. SOLDIER sb. + -LY.]
A. adj. 1. Becoming or appropriate to, befitting, a soldier or soldiers. (Cf. SOLDIERLIKE a. 2.)
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., II. 50. Varro maketh mention of foure kindes of enclosure, the fyrst naturall, the second wylde, the thirde souldierly. [Ibid., The third the Souldiers fortefying.]
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. vi. ¶ 2. They had fought rather with beastly furie, then with any souldierly discipline.
1631. Chapman, Cæsar & Pompey, II. i. C 3. Can I hope … to raise my fortunes By creeping up in Souldierly degrees?
1665. Manley, Grotius’ Low-C. Warrs, 724. They published an answer filled with many souldierly taunts.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., V. (1778), II. 4. The impetuosity of his temper … mellowed into a cordial soldierly frankness.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, V. i. ¶ 21. It is not soldierly to shrink from the perils of the field.
1874. Green, Short Hist., iv. § 3. 176. The rough soldierly nobleness of his nature breaks out at Falkirk.
2. Having the qualities of a soldier. (Cf. SOLDIERLIKE a. 1.)
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 450. Some of his kinde souldierly followers founded a Chanterie at Castle Heningham.
1675. Traherne, Chr. Ethicks, 325. Little better then a souldierly ruffian.
1763. H. Walpole, Lett. (1891), IV. 68. My nephew … is very soldierly and lively.
1770. Bp. Forbes, Jrnl. (1886), 288. In order to seige, or rather murder, the sogerly Shaw.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xvii. Colonel Dent is a fine soldierly man.
3. Comb., as soldierly-like, -looking.
1601. in Sydney Papers (1746), II. 240. My Lord smootheth over the vncivill Entertainment with … soldiourly-like excuses.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xvii. A tall, stout, soldierly-looking man.
B. adv. = SOLDIERLIKE adv.
1585. Sidney, Lett., Misc. Wks. (1829), 309. The companies heer…, whome he had very well and souldierly gou[e]rned.
1611. Cotgr., Soldatesquement, souldierly, souldier-like.
1650. R. Stapylton, Strada’s Low-C. Warres, X. 8. Never without losse did any army fall off,… though never so skilfully and souldierly.
1886. St. James’ Gaz., 16 Oct. (Cassell). His warlike daughter smites them hip and thigh, using her sword right soldierly.
