Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lovely

Lovely , adjective

[Anglo-Saxon luflic.]

1.
Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
Lovely to look on. — Piers Plowman
Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely. — Robert of Brunne
If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers. — Shakespeare
2.
Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
A most lovely gentlemanlike man. — Shakespeare
3.
Loving; tender. [Obsolete]
A lovely kiss. — Shakespeare
Many a lovely look on them he cast. — Chaucer
4.
Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns. — Tennyson

Lovely , adverb

In a manner to please, or to excite love. [Obsolete or Rare] — Tyndale