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Webster 1913 Edition

(k?st′l?; 115)

Adj.

[From Cost expense.]

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.

Gorgeous; sumptuous.

[Poetic.]

To show how

costly

summer was at hand.

Shakespeare

Adj.

[from cost.] Of a high price; sumptuous; expensive; purchased at a great expense; as a costly habit; costly furniture.

Mary took a pound of spikenard, very costly. John 12.