Cost"ly (k?st"l?; 115),
a. [From Cost expense.]
1. Of great cost; expensive; dear.
He had fitted up his palace
in the most
costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. Prescott.
2. Gorgeous; sumptuous. [Poetic.] To show how costly summer was at hand. Shak.
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