Meaning of stagely | Babel Free
Definitions
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Suited or related to the stage; theatrical. obsolete
- Occurring in stages.
Examples
“But Tuthill I perfectly understood, and his fine acting was stagely and amusing.”
“We started out of the vestibule with, I should say, rather an accelerated movement, and looked at the dome against the clear, soft blue, afternoon sky, and saw that was all right; whereupon one of the party in a deep stagely tone began "Hark from the tombs a doleful sound," looking at the ornamental coffin on the verandah.”
“The intrepid Shields, a general in two wars and Senator from three States, and Clement C. Clay, whose stately dignity never forgot its austere bearing, walked arm-in-arm, with stagely strut that failed to impress the moving concourse with the vanity of either, but in twain “made both more grandly so."”
“Close by stood Dr. P., knife in hand, lecturing to the students in his rather stagely manner.”
“All the gestures, all the moves in this place seemed as if they had been rehearsed for the cabaret scenes in To Have and Have Not, forty years before, and were now endlessly being reenacted—parodied—by an aging company of geriatrics with time on their hands and nothing else to do but perfect their stagely business, while they quietly drank and smoked the day away.”
“Glaciation in the Alps instead of displaying moraines of four Glacial cycles may be actually represented by the tills of only one cycle, the four now recognized being merely stagely phenomena.”
“Stagely integration for real machines is connected with difficulties, caused by small relative length of each of these stages and the necessity of approximation of various active resistance under the brush edges.”
“These sets are made by stagely reduction of the known-at-the-moment-of-study information attacks, methods of compression and file objects by using of matrix transformations.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.