seelyt

[Early mod. E., also seeley; For sely is that deth, soth for to seyne, That oft ycleped cometh and endeth peyne. Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 503. O noble prince, that god shall ble e so farre as to be the onely meane of bringing this seely frozen Island into such everlasting honnour that all the nations of the World shall knowe and say, when the face of an English gentleman appear eth, that he is eyther a Sowldiour, a seek-sorrowt (sēk's or"ō), n . [ seek , v . , + obj. sorrow .] 9.] One who contrives to give himself philosopher, or a gallant Cowrtier. vexation; a self-tormentor. Afield they go, where many lookers be, And thou seek - sorrow Claius them among. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. seellt, a. [ME. sel, Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 11. To get some seeley home I had desire. Fairfax . 2. Good. Seli child is sone ilered [taught]. Life of Beket (ed. Black), p. 158. (Stratmann.) For sely child wol alday sone lere. Chaucer, Priore 's Tale, 1. 60. seeming As we seme best we shall she we our entent. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), L. 1768. There did seem in him a kind of joy To hear of it. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 18. 4. In an impersonal reflexive use, to appear: with the person in the dative, later apparently in the nominative as the quasi-subject of seem in the sense of 'think, consider': as, me seem, him seemed, they seemed, the people seemed, it seems to me, it seemed to him, them, or the people ( meseems being often written as a single word). The peple com to the gate, and saugh a pertly the Duke, as hem semed . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 77. "Sir," sais syr Sex tenour, "saye what the lykez, And we salle suffyre the, als us beste semes. Morte Arthur (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1701. It was of fair ye, as the peple semed . Chaucer , Squire's Tale, 1. 193. Me seemeth good that, with some little train, Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd Hither to London, to be crown'd our king. Shak., Rich. III., ii. 2. 120. 5. To appear to one's self; imagine; feel as if: as, I still seem to hear his voice; he still seemed to feel the motion of the ve el. Gazing I seem to see Thought folded over thought in thy large eyes. Tennyson, Eleanore, vi. It is habitual with the New-Eng lander to put this verb to strange uses, as, "I can't seem to be suited," "I couldn't seem to know him." Lowell , Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. It seems, it appears: often used parenthetically, and nearly equivalent to 'as the story goes, as is said, as we are told. Often used sarcastically or ironically: as, this, it seems, is the man you call good! I am abus'd, betray'd! I am laugh'd at, scorn'd, Baffled, and bor'd, it seems ! Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iv. 5. It seems to me that the true reason why we have so few versions which are tolerable is because there are so few who have all the talents requisite for translation. Dryden. The river here is about a quarter of a mile broad, or something more. It should seem it was the Angyrorum Civitas of Ptolemy. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 80. It seems a countryman had wounded himself with his scythe. Steele , Tatler, No. 248. good, useful; prob. = L. sollus, whole, entire, sõlus (prob. orig. identical with sollus ), alone (see solel ), salvus, salvos, orig. * solvos, whole, sound, well, safe (see safe ), = Gr. ὅλος, dial. ούλος, whole, Skt. sarva, whole, all. Hence seell, n., and, by extension from seell, a., seely (which only partly depends on the noun seel ) (cf. holy, similarly extended from hole, now spelled whole ), and from that the mod. silly.] Good; fortunate; opportune; happy. Laya mon, 1. 1234.