ladilike

comparative more ladilike · superlative most ladilike

1. nonstandardobsoleterareRare spelling of ladylike.

   Coniux imperioſa. Ouidius. A ladylike^([sic]) wife that will be obeyed. / Conſul imperioſus. Cic[ero]. / Dura domina, imperioſa. Cic. A rigorous and ladilike dame that will be obeyed.

   1565 March 26 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ, […], London: la: […] [Q]uondam Bertheleti, […] per Henricum Wykes, →OCLC, signature Ooo, recto, column 1

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   Mea amica eſt potens, procax, magnifica, ſumptuoſa, nobilis, My beſtbeloue oꝛ paramour is a woman of good habilitee, ⁊ ſhe is euer crauyng magnificent, oꝛ ladilike, a chargeable, oꝛ coſtly piece, and a gentill woman.

   1560, Nicholas Vdall, “Ex Heautontimorumeno”, in Floures for Latine Speakyng Selected and Gathered oute of Terence, […], London: […] [Thomas Powell], in the house late Thomas Berthelettes, →OCLC, folio 125, verso

   O Memory (quoth Inquiſition) this is not Diana: no Diana, no Gouzaga, no Emila, no Cariclia, no Pallas, no Iuno, no, not knowing Minerua, may compare with her, foꝛ the flouriſhing feature of her incompꝛehenſible complexion, foꝛ the comly compoſition of her Ladilike limmes, being the perfecteſt peece of wooꝛke that euer Nature created, that euer earth nouryſhed, oꝛ that euer death deſtroyed, […]

   1578, Thomas Blener Hasset, “[The Lyfe of Queene Hellina.] The Induction.”, in The Seconde Part of the Mirrour for Magistrates, Conteining the Falles of the Infortunate Princes of This Lande. […], [London]: […] Richard Webster, →OCLC, folio 16, verso

   Lordlie, imperious, ſtately, that hath great rule, done ladilike, that will be obeyed ſtreightly, that commandeth by authoritie and maſterſhippe, rough, that may not be ſtriuen againſt.

   1587, Thomas Thomasius, “Impĕrĭōsus”, in Dictionarium Linguæ Latinæ et Anglicanæ, […], 2nd edition (1589), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Ex officina Iohannis Legatt, celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographi. […], →OCLC, signature [Cc8], recto, column 2

   Looke to thy Exchequo[u]ʳ where Subiects be all cheaked by Osborne and Fanshaw, thy Tellers & Audito[u]ʳˢ. Also whose Dames are not contented w[i]ᵗʰ M[ast]ʳᵉˢ but Ladilike do goe, wee dare not speake their treaso[u]ʳ is so greate, but weale & lament, and vnder the burthen of Milles & Roper Offices do daylie groane.

   1603 May 7, The Poor Man’s Petition (British Library, Additional MS 22601, ff. 10v-11v), via Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England, [folio 11, verso], paragraph 13

   But in reſpect of the marvellous efficacie, which fine v and pure hony hath in preſerving health, v. that groſſe and earthie ſtuffe is no white comparable to this celeſtial nectar. Although ſome queint & ladilike palats (whom nothing but that which is far ſaught and deere bought can pleaſe) vnhappily neglect it.

   1609, Char[les] Butler, “Of the Fruit and Profit of Bees”, in The Feminine Monarchie. Or A Treatise Concerning Bees, and the Due Ordering of Them: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Ioseph Barnes, →OCLC, signature M3, verso