adjective
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Of people: worthy of respect; dignified, regal.
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Of movement: deliberate, unhurried; dignified.
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Grand, impressive, imposing.
adverb
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In a stately manner.
Examples of stately in a Sentence
He built a stately house in the city, and adorned it with a multitude of paintings.
They are bold, handsome plants, with stately spikes, 2 to 3 ft.
He loved the simple dress and manners of the Franks, and on two occasions only did he assume the more stately attire of a Roman noble.
It has a stately transitional Norman tower, and three fine Norman arches.
Katie trailed her into the stately Georgian mansion and glanced down as the polished wood beneath her feet creaked.
He also erected the stately fortress of Kronborg, to guard the narrow channel of the Sound.
Of the Dominican monastery (1224) there still exists the stately Magdalen tower; while of the Augustinian abbey of St Mary d'Urso (1206) there are the tower and a fine pointed arch.
All the species are arborescent or shrubby, varying in size from the most stately of forest trees to the dwarfish bush.
There was lots of nervous giggles, and false bravado, as we ventured south at a stately 50 miles per hour.
Gemina against the Welsh hill-tribes, its garrison was soon removed and it became a flourishing town with stately town hall, baths and other appurtenances of a thoroughly civilized and Romanized city.
It contains nine Evangelical and two Roman Catholic churches, a stately modern town hall, a Hall of Fame (Ruhmes- halle), with statues of the emperors William I.
This Nutcracker kit is a stately holiday display.
The parish churches of Dronfield, Hathersage (with some notable stained glass), Sandiacre and Tideswell exemplify the Decorated period; the last is a particularly stately and beautiful building, with a lofty and ornate western tower and some good early brasses.
His buildings are stately and graceful in proportion, but show a tendency towards dull scholastic classicism.
There was something in this external dignity which went with Burke's imperious spirit, his spacious imagination, his turn for all things stately and imposing.
A larger and more massive and stately building than the city hall is the county court house, facing Cadillac Square, with a lofty tower surmounted by a gilded dome.
Ginger wasn't as facially pretty as Paulette but her figure—stately and full—and her dress—expensive and tasteful— paled her sister-in-law like a queen visitor at a homeless shelter.
Happiness should be all I feel but a strange sense of dread is overwhelming any feeling of contentment as I enter this stately home.
Alastair Dunn found a 4,000-year-old arrowhead at a stately home called Castle Howard in Yorkshire during an archeological activity session.
Down the center of the room there is a row of stately brass chandeliers, too high to polish.
Attired as priests they perform a stately dance, then return to the temple to remove their priests ' vestments.
And though there was positive gain in the removal of idolatrous and corrupt modes of worship, there was also positive loss in the disappearance of this old genial phase of Hebrew social life and worship. It involved a vast difference to many a Judaean village when the festival pilgrimage was no longer made to the familiar local sanctuary with its hoary associations of ancient heroic or patriarchal story, but to a distant and comparatively unfamiliar city with its stately shrine and priesthood.
The tree grows straight, or nearly so, and has a gloomy and forbidding, but wonderfully stately aspect.
The facade of San Zaccaria (1457-1515), the stately design of Anton Marco Gambello and Mauro Coducci, offers some slight modifications in the use of the semicircular pediment, the line of the aisle roof being indicated by quarter-circle pediments abutting on the facade of the nave.
Awkward and uncourtly, at heart shy, he was but a poor figurehead for the stately court of France.
Briefly speaking, the NO was a dance of the most stately character, adapted to the incidents of dramas which embrace within their scope a world of legendary lore, of quaint fancies and of religious sentiment.
Dotted with towered hamlets and stately chinas groves the valley of the Kurram runs south-east from the Peiwar Kotal (below the great peak of Sikaram), past Thal in the Miranzai valley, through the southern Kohat hills to Bannu.
He submits drawings and models for the canalization and control of the waters of the Arno, and propounds, with compulsive eloquence and conviction, a scheme for transporting the Baptistery of St John, the "bel San Giovanni" of Dante, to another part of the city, and elevating it on a stately basement of marble.
Yet, while these are essential merits of the book, its endearing charm lies deeper, in the sweet and kindly personality of the author, who on his rambles gathers no spoil, but watches the birds and field-mice without disturbing them from their nests, and quietly plants an acorn where he thinks an oak is wanted, or sows beech-nuts in what is now a stately row.
All-American through and through, it 's nostalgic, stately of pace, and shot unfussily using only those techniques available to mid-50s cameramen.
And then suddenly on the right bank we come to a stately mansion, Thornton ' Hall.
In 1899 the stately edifice over which Mr Warrick presided was erected by Miss CRICHTON in memory of her father.
In 1949 Longleat became the first stately home in England to open its doors to the public.
Passing boats would stately chateaux and the grand flotilla help transport our.
Most of the conference was based at Avondale House, a modest stately pile where Charles Stewart Parnell lived, in the Wicklow hills.
Also worth seeing, Lahore Fort contains stately palaces, halls and gardens.
The Breakers sits majestically along Newport Rhode Island's Atlantic coast, a stately reminder of America's "Gilded Age."
A floor length gown may not be the best choice for walking over snowy or icy surfaces, however, and many brides choose a high-low hem that is ankle length in the front but swoops into a stately train.
The bride's stately walk down the aisle is a grand moment of any wedding ceremony, and decorating an aisle for a fall wedding can be a glorious way to frame that beautiful moment with the harmony of autumn.
Outdoor brides can do this easily by selecting an outdoor fall wedding ceremony location with a rustic bridge, and arch of colorful trees, or a stately garden pathway.
Senecio Macrophyllus - a stout leafy perennial, 6 feet high when full-grown, the glossy green leaves and much-branched heads of small yellow flowers of stately effect when grown boldly on the lawn or in the wild garden.
Only in the more favoured districts have these trees any chance, and they never present the graceful and stately port which they show in countries that really suit them, such as parts of Italy and California.
I. macrantha is more stately, with huge violet-purple bells.
They bloom so late as to be scarcely worth growing, but V. prcealta is a stately plant for the wild garden.
Yellow-banded Flag (Iris Ochroleuca) - A stately vigorous Flag and an old plant in our gardens, the foliage slender, about 4 feet long, and coming up in a graceful twist.
Its stately form and tall stature are effective in the mixed border or in a nook in a bed of evergreen shrubs.
An annual stately and showy with large flowers, the foliage grey-green, flowers variable in form and color, rank in smell and useless for cutting, but of good effect when grouped boldly.
American Sunflower-like perennials, of stately habit, and among those which suggested the idea of the "wild garden" to me.
If planted in numbers in bold masses, these plants produce a stately effect in the wild garden, especially in autumn, but to do well they need an open and sunny space.
Puget Sound Fir (Abies Grandis) - A stately tree 200 feet high, with dark green cones 2 to 3 inches long, and dark shining leaves, white below.