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▪ I. summerly, a.|ˈsʌməlɪ|
[OE. sumerlic = OHG. sumarlîh (MHG. sumerlich, G. sommerlich), ON. sumarligr; see summer n.1 and -ly1.]
†1. Of or pertaining to summer; taking place in summer. Obs.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 250 Se sumerlica sunnstede. Ibid. 252 Þære sumerlican hætan. c1050Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 176/18 æstiuus dies, sumorlic dæᵹ. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 34 After this somerlye reuerting, the Sonne is not perceiued to decline farther North. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 227 The grassehopper..leapt and chirpte..among the greene herbes and summerlie plantes. 1749H. Walpole Let. to Mann 4 June, As summerly as June and Strawberry Hill may sound, I assure you I am writing to you by the fire-side. 1771― Let. to J. Chute 9 July, The weather is but lukewarm, and I should choose to have all the windows shut, if my smelling was not much more summerly than my feeling.
2. Having the qualities of summer; summer-like, summery.
a1225Leg. Kath. 1678 Euch strete..bute sloh & slec, eauer iliche sumerlich. a1661[implied in summerliness]. 1850T. T. Lynch Theoph. Trinal xi. 210 A quiet, most summerly, September day. 1858Times 15 Dec. 6/1 Whenever the season is summerly and the weather is damp and mild. 1894J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. Recoll. I. iv. 57, I journeyed in summerly weather..to Oxford.
Hence ˈsummerliness, summeriness.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Somerset. (1662) 17 Some will have it [sc. Somersetshire] so called from the Summerlinesse, or temperate pleasantnesse thereof.
▪ II. summerly, adv. rare.|ˈsʌməlɪ|
[f. summer n.1 + -ly2.]
In a manner or condition befitting summer.
1600Nashe Summer's Last Will Wks. 1905 III. 247 Let the prodigall childe come out in his dublet and hose all greasy, his shirt hanging forth, and ne're a penny in his purse, and talke what a fine thing it is to walke summerly. 1839Ld. Houghton Treasure-Ship i, The wind is blowing summerly. 1902Rime in Daily Chron. 3 Jan. 5/2 If the January calends be summerly gay, It will be winterly weather till the calends of May. |