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Befitting of a royal court; reflecting the manners or behaviour of people at court.

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(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It): You have too courtly a wit for me; I’ll rest.
{{quote-book|en|year=1682|author=Aphra Behn|chapter=The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause|location=London|publisher=D. Brown|title=et al.|section=act III, scene 1|page=23|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27320.0001.001
(RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)
(RQ:Dickens David Copperfield)
(RQ:Lowry Under the Volcano)
Of or relating to a royal court.
(quote-book)|chapter=Horat. Lib. 2. Sat. 6.|title=Bosworth-Field with a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems|location=London|publisher=Henry Seile|page=40|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06468.0001.001
{{quote-text|en|year=1776|author=Thomas Paine|title=Common Sense|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004831091.0001.000|page=40|location=Philadelphia
{{quote-book|en|year=1857|author=Anthony Trollope|title=Barchester Towers|location=London|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts|volume=1|chapter=3|page=30|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015092864910&view=1up&seq=64
Overly eager to please or obey.
(quote-book)|chapter=The Duellist|location=London|publisher=G. Kearsly|title=et al.|section=Book 3, p. 29|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004793407.0001.000
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) by dismissing scrupulous magistrates, and by placing on the bench other magistrates more courtly.
In the manner of a royal court; in a manner befitting of a royal court.
(quote-text)|title=The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth|location=London|section=act I, scene 1|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02168.0001.001
{{quote-text|en|year=1673|author=John Dryden|title=The Assignation|location=London|publisher=Henry Herringman|section=act II, scene 3|page=17|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36600.0001.001
1766, (w), ''The Double Mistake,'' London: J. Almon ''et al.,'' Act(nbs)I, Scene(nbs)3, p.(nbs)12,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792769.0001.000

Very courtly and correctly spoken on all sides, my lord;

{{quote-text|en|year=1980|author=Anthony Burgess|title=Earthly Powers|url=https://archive.org/details/earthlypowers100burg|chapter=74|page=661|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York