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friarly, a. (adv.) Now rare.|ˈfraɪəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly1 and -ly2.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to friars; resembling a friar; friar-like.
1549Latimer 5th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 151 Thys is a fryerly fassion that wyll receyue no monye in theyr handes but wyll haue it put vpon theyr sleues. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. lxxxiv. 518 These frierly flatterers. 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 247 In his Friarly garments (habits of peace and pietie). a1661Fuller Worthies iii. (1662) 125 He never set his name to his Books, but it may (according to the Frierly-Fancy) be collected out of the Capital Letters of his severall works. 1817T. L. Peacock Melincourt II. 33 In life three ghostly friars were we And now three friarly ghosts we be. 1885G. Meredith Diana Crossways II. vii. 159 We will..send you back sobered and friarly to Caen.
B. adv. In friarly fashion, after the manner of the friars.
a1631Donne Lett. to Sir R. H. (Alford) VI. 337, I never fettered nor imprisoned the word Religion, not straightening it Friarly, ad religiones factitias. |