Meanings
adjectivechandlerly (comparative more chandlerly, superlative most chandlerly)
comparative more chandlerly · superlative most chandlerly
- obsoleterareOf or pertaining to a chandler, or (by extension) petty.
like good circumcised males and females, to be taxed by the poll, to be sconced our headmoney, our twopences, in their chandlerly shop-book of Easte
1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC
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