Golden Bowl

Dictionary

MASTERLYa.

Formed or executed with superior skill; suitable to a master; most excellent; skillful; as a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly stroke of policy.

1. Imperious.

M`ASTERLYadv.

With the skill of a master.

Thou dost speak masterly.

"I think it very masterly written," in Swift, is improper or unusual.