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† ˈdernly, adv. Obs.
Also 2–3 derneliche, 3–6 dernely, compar. 3 dern(e)luker.
[f. dern a.: see -ly2. It is properly the adv. of an O.E. derived adj. *dernelíc.]
1. In a secret manner, with secrecy.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 153 Nedre smuᵹeð derneliche. a1225Ancr. R. 128 Vorte..don derneluker þerinne flesliche fulðen. a1300Cursor M. 2517 (Cott.) Dernlik he did þam bide. c1300Beket 27 This Maide longede sore And lovede him durneliche. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xiv. 164 Menye of þo bryddes Hudden and heleden durneliche here egges, For no foul sholde hem fynde. c1400Destr. Troy 13700 Þe schalke, that..so dernely hym did dere & dispit.
2. So as to be concealed or hidden.
c1305St. Kenelm 283 in E.E.P. (1862) 55 Þe holi bodi: þat durneliche lai þere. 1513Douglas æneis viii. i. 146 So dernly hyd none wyst quhair he was gone.
3. Dismally. [A Spenserian archaism.]
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. i. 14 Their puissance, whylome full dernely tryde. Ibid. iii. xii. 34 Had not the lady..Dernly unto her called to abstaine. 1591― Daphn. xxviii, Thus dearnely plained. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xx. 223 A Lion..roared so dernely, that all the women in Rome (foure hundred miles from thence) for very horror proued abortive. |