cheaplier

English

Adverb

cheaplier

1. (rare) comparative form of cheaply: more cheaply
   • 1689, Richard Baxter, A Treatise of Knowledge and Love Compared. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Parkhurst […], pages 183–184:

     And their own thoughts and experience muſt teach them that in many years which from an Experienced man they might have cheaplier learnt, in a few days.

   • 1814, Robert Southey, “Canto VIII”, in Roderick, the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 101:

     The Moor, / Who from the plunder of their native land / Had bought the recreant crew that join’d his arms, / Or cheaplier with their own possessions bribed / Their sordid souls, saw through the flimsy show / Of policy wherewith they sought to cloak / Old enmity, and selfish aims: […]

   • 1857 September 25, Another Oxford Graduate [pseudonym], “The Volunteers”, in The Times, number 22,797, London, published 1857 September 28, page 4, column 4:

     But if anything is to be done, let it be done quickly. Such a trial could never be made cheaplier than at this time, when war would apply the really straining test.

   • 1875 February 20, George S[hepard] Burleigh, “A Hymn of Aspiration”, in The New-England Journal of Education. […], volume I, number 8, Boston, Mass.: The New-England Publishing Company, page 87, column 1:

     Forsaking everywhere / To prizes cheaplier won, / The eternal morn of true and pure / Shall light us on and on, / Till over summits dim / In purple glooms afar, / We see through deepening glory swim / Our victory’s morning star!

   • 1876 April 8, X-Cal-I-Bus [pseudonym], “‘Officers to the Front’”, in R. W. Thomas, editor, Clarksville Weekly Chronicle, volume 43, number 45 (whole 2,229), Clarksville, Tenn.: J. S. Neblett & J. A. Grant, page [2], column 4:

     And this same policy is a logical deduction from certain admitted as essential facts, to-wit, namely: that the State derives an income from her penitentiary through a lease which is not unprofitable to its holders, and that she supplies her people with the standard commodity of education very much cheaplier than they can supply themselves.

   • 1894, Henrik Ibsen, translated by F[ydell] Edmund Garrett, Brand: A Dramatic Poem, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, →OCLC; quoted in “[Books.] Two Translations of Ibsen’s ‘Brand.’”, in The Spectator, number 3,440, London, 1894 June 2, page 754:

     Salvation had been cheaplier priced / Had your God ruled: the Crucified / For mercy from the cross had cried, / And our redemption had been given / By diplomatic note from heaven!

   • 1908, Cecil Headlam, editor, Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1699. […], London: […] [F]or His Majesty’s Stationery Office, [b]y Mackie and Co. Ld., […], page 496:

     Since my letter of Oct. 20, I have found out a man that had lived in Carolina and was concerned in making pitch and tar. From him I have discovered that tar will be much cheaplier made than I thought for.

   • 1910, Cecil Headlam, editor, Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1700. […], London: […] [F]or His Majesty’s Stationery Office by the Hereford Times Co., Ltd., […], page 193:

     I shall in another letter demonstrate that the King will be better and cheaplier furnished with principal ship-timber from Pescattaway than he is now of the growth of England, for I have made a nice calculation.

   • 1922 February 3 [a. 1918?], Jane Barlow, “Exiles at Lisconnel”, in The Wells Journal; Somerset & West of England Advertiser; […], volume LXXII, number 5, Wells, Somerset, page [6], column 2:

     Then somebody told him that much nearer Dublin was a seaport whence he could sooner and cheaplier embark for Italy, and in ill-advisedly trying to reach Queenstown he did indeed go helplessly astray.

   • 1925, Clement Wood, “A Little Tune”, in The Eagle Flies: Sonnets, Chicago, Ill.: The Bookfellows:

     A little tune of a pool that holds its stars / Cheaper than pebbles; for it lets them fly, / When blue day lifts her sun-engoldened bars / To hide the ashen distances of sky. / A little tune of a pool that knows the moon, / And holds her cheaplier still.

   • 1997 March 19, Karel Thönissen, “Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract”, in comp.lang.eiffel‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

     Testing might have revealed the software fault, this time, but next time a fault will get uncaught. Surely, now that we know the bug, it is simple to think of nice tests that would have relealed^{[sic – meaning revealed]} the bug cheaplier.

   • 2000 November 17, Nick Pine, “Humidifiers”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

     We try to find interesting ways to do things cheaplier. Is a $50 smart fountain more interesting than a $500 hidden humidifier?

   • [2001, Language Network: Grammar, Writing, Communication, Evanston, Ill.: McDougal Littell, →ISBN, page 219:

     Choose the correct form of comparison for each sentence. […] Some families live even (more cheaply, more cheaplier).]

   • [2002 September 28, tomk, “2003 Accord a failure - Camry much better!!!”, in rec.autos.makers.honda‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

     not cheaper...cheaplier.
     maxima has so much more and only $2-3000 more
     
     "SoCalMike" <mikein562...@hotmail.com> wrote in message […]
     > i dont see a reason for the maxima anymore... the altima does it all. and
     > cheaper.]

   • 2002 December 5, Matthew Hunt, “Which Snow Tire is the Best to get?”, in rec.autos.makers.honda‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

     Even cheaplier, go to www.tires.com, buy 4 Yoko F720 195/70R14 tires for $264 with free shipping. If you can find someone to mount/balance for $40 like I did, you're looking at $304 for four winter tires.

   • [2007, Houghton Mifflin Reading: Practice Book, Grade 5, volume 2 (Themes 4–6), Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 195:

     Use proofreading marks to correct seven errors in using adjectives or adverbs to compare, […]. Our company decided to build cars by using an assembly line this made our operation most productive than it had been. We could sell the cars cheaplier.]