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▪ I. † ˈstraightly, a. Obs.
[f. straight a. + -ly1.]
Tense, stretched.
1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 230 Tho that have the braons of the shuldres ryght strayghtly whan thay mewyth ham, tokenyth that thay bene stronge and hardy.
▪ II. straightly, adv.|ˈstreɪtlɪ|
[f. straight a. + -ly2.]
1. In a straight manner; in a straight line; directly.
1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 46 Siche lawis ben directli, other straightli, or openli, contrarie to the truthe. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. vi. (Bodl. MS.) He renneþ scharpelich & swiftelich and straiȝteliche as it were. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 11640 My glovys streythly on to sette. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. ii. i, But tell me..What stature wields he, and what personage? Mena. Of stature tall, and straightly fashioned. a1677Barrow Serm. iii. Wks. 1687 I. 27 God's word..is a lamp unto our feet,..teaching us to walk streightly and surely, without erring or stumbling. 1804–6Syd. Smith Mor. Philos. (1850) 231 Firmness and constancy of purpose, that withstands all solicitation, and, in spite of all danger, goes on straightly to its object, is very often sublime. 1867F. Francis Angling v. (1880) 150 Let him deliver the fly straightly and well. 1867C. J. Smith Syn. & Antonyms 24 To allude is to make such a reference to a subject as does not straightly refer to, but, as it were, plays about it.
2. Straightway, immediately. poet. rare.
1830Tennyson Sonn. ‘Could I outwear’, Could I thus hope my lost delights renewing, I straightly would commend the tears to creep From my charged lids. 1868Morris Earthly Par. i. (1870) 252 Make no tarrying, But straightly set thyself to do this thing. |