"lacily" meaning in English

See lacily in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Forms: more lacily [comparative], most lacily [superlative]
Etymology: lacy + -ly Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lacy|ly}} lacy + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} lacily (comparative more lacily, superlative most lacily)
  1. In a lacy manner.
    Sense id: en-lacily-en-adv-8dMWfZZ3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly

Download JSON data for lacily meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lacy",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "lacy + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "lacy + -ly",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lacily",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lacily",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lacily (comparative more lacily, superlative most lacily)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Handbook of English Cathedrals: Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury, Lichfield, Lincoln, Ely, Wells, Winchester, Gloucester, York, London",
          "text": "[…] all are so daintily, lacily minute that they seem to have been woven by spiders, not carved by men; and yet all, like the leafy designs in relief which surround them, are cut with the freest, most spirited touch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a lacy manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-lacily-en-adv-8dMWfZZ3",
      "links": [
        [
          "lacy",
          "lacy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lacily"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lacy",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "lacy + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "lacy + -ly",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lacily",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lacily",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lacily (comparative more lacily, superlative most lacily)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Handbook of English Cathedrals: Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury, Lichfield, Lincoln, Ely, Wells, Winchester, Gloucester, York, London",
          "text": "[…] all are so daintily, lacily minute that they seem to have been woven by spiders, not carved by men; and yet all, like the leafy designs in relief which surround them, are cut with the freest, most spirited touch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a lacy manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lacy",
          "lacy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lacily"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.