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▪ I. hourly, a.|ˈaʊəlɪ|
[f. hour + -ly1.]
1. Of or belonging to an hour; of an hour's age or duration; very recent or brief. rare.
1513More Rich. III (1883) 14 That an houerly kindnes, sodainely contract in one houre..shold be deper setled..then a long accustomed malice many yeres rooted. 1821Byron Two Foscari i. i. 376 For the present, Foscari Has a short hourly respite.
2. Occurring or performed every hour; done, reckoned, etc. hour by hour; frequent, continual.
c1530Crt. of Love 353 With hourly labour and gret attendaunce. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 188 This is an accident of hourely proofe. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 189 In hourly expectation of the Hangman. 1797Godwin Enguirer i. xi. 97 The hourly events of his life. 1808Murdoch in Phil. Trans. XCVIII. 126 An hourly supply of 1250 cubic feet of the gas. 1883Wom. Suffrage Jrnl. Nov. 198/1 Whether he was paid an hourly, daily, or weekly wage.
b. as n. (U.S.) A public conveyance that runs every hour.
1877Bartlett Dict. Amer. 299 Hourly, formerly used in and about Boston for an omnibus. 1881Harper's Mag. Feb. 388 The terrors of the ‘hourly’ or omnibus.
▪ II. hourly, adv.|ˈaʊəlɪ|
[f. hour + -ly2.]
1. Every hour; hour by hour; from hour to hour; continually, very frequently.
1470in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 136 As dayly and howrlye is now..proved. 1509Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 306 The perylles..innumerable, whiche dayly & hourly myght haue happed. 1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. i. 64 A Mother hourely coyning plots. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. 303 The barbarians were hourly expected at the gates of Rome. 1811Byron Farew. Malta, Two spoonfuls hourly.
†2. For the space of an hour; for a short time; quickly, cursorily. Obs.
1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 105/2 Partes..suche..as rather nede to be attentely redde and aduised, than houerly harde and passid ouer. 1532― Confut. Tindale Ibid. 694/1. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Cor. 43 With you peraduenture will I abyde for a whyle..but I would not see you now houerly, & in my passage. |