comptly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

compt +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

comptly (comparative more comptly, superlative most comptly)

  1. (obsolete) neatly
    • 1581, An Abstract of all the penal Statutes ... Collected by Fardinando Pulton, etc. B.L., England, page 227:
      [] wilfully and comptly commit []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for comptly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)