Meanings
comparative more featously · superlative most featously
- obsoleteAttractively, beautifully.
Fetislich hir fyngres · were fretted with golde wyre / And þere-on red rubyes · as red as any glede.
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II1 more example
Mansell is a merry one and is right worthy love, / Whom Nature wrought so featously her cunning for to prove.
c. 1570, Richard Edwardes, Collected Works, Manchester, published 2001
Origin
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