seely
See also: Seely
English
Adjective
seely (comparative seelier, superlative seeliest)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of sely or silly.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of feare”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 28:
- Whereas the poore, the baniſhed, and ſeely ſervants, live often as careleſly and as pleaſantly as the others.
- 1765, Thomas Percy, “The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall-Greene”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:
- The seely blind beggar of Bednall-greene / That daylye sits begging for charitie / ... A seely olde man, God knoweth, is hee ...