chandlerly
English
Etymology
Adjective
chandlerly (comparative more chandlerly, superlative most chandlerly)
- (obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to a chandler, or (by extension) petty.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
- like good circumcised males and females, to be taxed by the poll, to be sconced our headmoney, our twopences, in their chandlerly shop-book of Easte
References
- “chandlerly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.