facetely

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From facete +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

facetely (comparative more facetely, superlative most facetely)

  1. (obsolete) Wittily, pleasantly. [17th–19th c.]
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , III.2.2.ii:
      the eyes […] are the chief seats of love, […] as James Lernutius hath facetely expressed in an elegant ode of his […]
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