lordly

Of or relating to a lord.

Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.

But they are the peers of the Queensland Parliament, and, having no lordly robes, must approach the Old Country model as closely as possible.

Having the qualities of a lord; lordlike; noble

Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.

Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.

He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

It had also its Hall, called the Priory—an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned; […]

Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

Lords are Lordlieſt in thir wine; […]

In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.

1891, Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation, Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, page 56, […] / And Herod's painted pinnaces, ablaze / With lamps, and brazen shields and spangled slaves, / Came and went lordly at Tiberias; / […]

Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.

Alternative form of lordly.