Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or befitting a captain.
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- adjective Befitting a
captain .
Etymologies
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captain + -ly
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Examples
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He's not busy playing well, so he has time to do the "captainly" duties.
St. Louis Game Time 2009
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The captain of the good ship _Karamojo_ is Lena Fang, who in an age of potent artificial intelligences and near immortality, desperately craves captainly achievement and fame.
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She supposed Becker's remark was compounded of embarrassment and the sense of captainly importance he assumed with his fancy uniform.
Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003
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(notes) to keep the shiner because it makes him look more captainly?
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