Meaning of craftly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Skillful, expert; indicative of skill.
   rare
2. Crafty, cunning.
   nonstandard, obsolete, rare

Examples

“Theſe ymages were made full curyouſly / With theyꝛ hoꝛſes of the ſtele ſo fyne / And eche of them in theyꝛ places ſundꝛy / About were ſette that clerely dyde ſhyne / Lyke Dyane clere in her ſpere celeſtyne / And vnder eche hoꝛſe there was full pꝛyuely / A grete whele made by craftly geometry”

“All genuine lovers of pictorial art are earnestly exhorted to miss no available opportunity of visiting the Nevinson show at the Leicester Gallery. It is a wonderfully versatile genius Mr. Nevinson displays in this exhibition. There are all sorts of subjects, and all sorts of styles, but all of them interesting, every one of them craftly and distinguished.”

“His protest included a carpe diem; seize the day before Saturn gobbles it up. It was only natural that, before William James and Bergson, he should have created means of expressing inwardness and, before Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, a model of the novel as a craftly document.”

“The L.D.S. leadership actively recruited potters; they were an essential part of their idealized, self-sustained Utopian communities. This ideology perpetuated the master-apprentice system in pottery production, while in the production centers, the craftly ideal was being replaced by modern, specialized production systems marked by mechanization, specialization, and deskilling.”

“Mo than a thouſande ways he hath / by his craftly fraudes to deceyue man.”

“I call it ſinful, becauſe in my Judgement, all factious Jeſuited Men, that under the ſeveral Maſks or Cant-Terms of Perſecution, Liberty, Free Thinking, Hardſhip of the Teſt-Act, or the like hypocritical and craftly Pretences, are for diſturbing the Peace of the Nation, and bringing in the Pretender, are as corrupt in their Minds, and as rebellious in their Hearts, as the very Rebels that fought for the Pretdneer^([sic – meaning Pretender]) at Dumblain or Preſton.”

“But vain were words, entreaties vain, / The craftly witch secured my swain.”

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