adv. [f. prec. + -LY2 Cf. ON. úkurteisliga and INCOURTEOUSLY.] In an uncourteous manner; discourteously, uncivilly.

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  α.  1338.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 143. Loke how kyng Philip said vncurteisly, Daþet haf his lip, & his nose þerby.

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1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. XIV. 172. Ich took kepe How vn-corteisliche þe cok hus kynde forth strenede.

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1477.  Earl Rivers, Dictes (1877), 56 b. If he demaunde ony thing he shal axe it vncurtaisly.

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1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Inclementer, To speake vncourteisly or churlishly to his father.

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  β.  c. 1485.  Digby Myst. (1882), IV. 655. He & I com both of your kyn, And that ye kithe vn-curteslye.

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1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccxxxii. 131 b/1. They be men of warr, suche as can nat lyue, but by pyllage & robbery: and haue vncurtesy ouer ryden oure countrees.

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1548.  Cranmer, Catech., 49 b. Beware good children yt you dispise not your parentes, or vncurtesely entreat them.

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  γ.  1535.  Coverdale, 1 Esdras vi. 33. To deale vncurteously with the house of the Lorde at Ierusalem.

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1575.  Vautrollier, Luther on Ep. Gal., 25. Paul might have handled the Galatians more uncurteously.

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1632.  Sherwood, Vncourteously, incivilement.

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1849.  Eastwick, Dry Leaves, 118. They were … at last dismissed uncourteously with a refusal.

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1856.  Kane, Arct. Expl., II. ix. 94. A cordial meal it is. I am sorry to hurry over it so uncourteously.

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