1. stately - Adjective
2. stately - Adverb
4. stately - Adjective Satellite
Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.
Majestically; loftily.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. Samuel Johnson
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land. Felicia Hemans
I became one of the stately homos of England. Quentin Crisp
The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know. Julia Ward Howe
To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave. Dutch Proverb