daintily

adv

Etymology: From Middle English deyntely; equivalent to dainty + -ly.

1. In a dainty manner, delicately.

   “SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.”

   “Has he beſpoke, what will he have a brace, / Or but one Partridge, or a ſhort-leg'd Hen, / Daintyly carbonado'd?”