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I used to assume from context that folks said "painterly" when they meant "loose" or "impressionistically" or -- now that "blended" has already become a suspect methodology (so much for the resurgence of classical realism) -- "highly finished." (I confess to not being able to understand why one methodology or technique is "painterly" and another not. We're all just smearing paint around, right?)
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I have always understood the term to mean "in a loose or impressionistic fashion" leaving brush strokes as a bonus and not a flaw. This would seem to rule out the "highly blended" works as painterly... Where I received this understanding I have no idea. I always thought it was just part of the code, the art speak code. I don't think, however, that it would be fair to suggest that a painterly manner was not a highly finished manner. As to the origins of the word "painterly" I don't have a clue.