stagely

stagely adjective: suited or related to the stage; theatrical.

Adjective

stagely (comparative more stagely, superlative most stagely)

(obsolete) Suited or related to the stage; theatrical.
- But Tuthill I perfectly understood, and his fine acting was stagely and amusing.1864, James Junius Marks, The Peninsular Campaign in Virginia, page 400
- 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...1877, Julia A. Stone, Illustrated India: Its Princes and People, page 460
(chiefly non-native speakers' English) Occurring in stages.
- 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.1932, Charles Reuben Keyes, The Pan-American Geologist, page 114
- 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.1998, Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, page 33

stagely (comparative more stagely, superlative most stagely)

In a stagey or theatrical manner.
- He was a priggish old party too, celebrated for walking up to his pupils and for whispering stagely, after a salute with the foil, “This, sir, is not so much a School of Arms as a School of Politeness."1898, Lady Isabel Burton, William Henry Wilkins, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, page 48
- Miss Sarah Brooke, Mr. Dion Boucicault, and Mr. Laurence Irving play as of the stage, stagely, but are, of course, absolutely sound, firm, and hold the audience with an iron hand.1906 May 23, ““Raffles" at the Comedy”, in The Bystander, volume 10, number 129, page 368
(nonstandard, proscribed, non-native speakers' English) In stages;
- For preparation of complex esters the etherification was carried out stagely (two or three stages)2008, F.Kh. Aliyeva, “New Types of Synthetic Lubricating Oils on the Base of Esters of Alkenylsuccinic Acids”, in Processes of petrochemistry and oil refining, volume 2, number 34
- In order to get the idea result of processing, the ore must be grinded^([sic]) and concentrated stagely.2011 October, Xiu Li Han, Chang Cun Li, LN Liu, Ming Yan Yao, Xin Fu Liu, “Research on Technological Mineralogy of Refractory Hematite Ore”, in Applied Mechanics and Materials, volumes 117-119

P., knife in hand, lecturing to the students in his rather stagely manner.1916, Arthur Ames Bliss, Blockley Days, page 24:
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.2008, Dimitrina Polimirova-Nickolova, Eugene Nickolov, “Analysis of Information Security of Objects under Attacks and Processed by Methods...
Therefore in its elaboration, Drama is a stagely enacted play of the characters created by a cast of […]1993, Panjab University Research Bulletin: Arts - Volume 24, page 12:
With present microsurgical techniques these lesions can be removed stagely and totally.2015 February 16, Dasara Kodanda Giri Rao, K Babji, “To evaluate resectability and outcome of intra cranial meningiomas: a prospective...

From stage + -ly.

What does stagely mean?: Stagely means suited or related to the stage; theatrical.
How do you use stagely in a sentence?: P., knife in hand, lecturing to the students in his rather stagely manner.
What part of speech is stagely?: Stagely can be an adjective or an adverb.

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