Definition of "trimly"
trimly
adverb
comparative more trimly, superlative most trimly
In a trim manner; neatly, smartly.
Quotations
[…] when the fight was done,When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress’d,Fresh as a bridegroom […]
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]
[…] in a few score yards I would come upon perfectly undisturbed spaces, houses with their blinds trimly drawn and doors closed, as if they had been left for a day by the owners, or as if their inhabitants slept within.
1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 2, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 6
(obsolete) Effectively, handily, nicely, thoroughly, soundly, well.
Quotations
And it is sayde both moste trimly and truly in the Epistle to the Hebreues, as we heard afore: If ye be not vnder correction, (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes.
1566, Thomas Becon, “The third Sonday after Easter, The Gospell. Ihon. xvi.”, in A New Postil Conteinyng Most Godly and Learned Sermons upon all the Sonday Gospelles, London, page 235
Lewis the eleventh King of France is sufficiently condemn’d by Posterity for sending Oliver his Barber in an Embassage to a Princesse, who so trimly dispatch’d his businesse, that he left it in the suddes, and had been well wash’d in the river at Gant for his pains, if his feet had not been the more nimble.
1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book Four, Chapter 16: The Embassadour, p. 319