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lewdly, adv.|ˈljuːdlɪ|
[f. lewd a. + -ly2.]
†1. In unlearned fashion; ignorantly; foolishly.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 289 Her-to þei leggen but lewydly goddis lawe. c1386Chaucer Sec. Nun's T. 430 Ye han bigonne your question folily..; ye axed lewedly. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xix. 415 And so thilk opinioun..was take childeli and lewidli. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. ii. in Ashm. (1652) 28 Theie lewdly beleeve every Conclusion.
†2. Wickedly, evilly, vilely, mischievously.
1382Wyclif 2 Macc. ix. 2 Antiochus after the fliȝt loodly [1388 viliche; Vulg. turpiter] turnyde aȝein. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. 149 Our wit aboundit and vsit was lewdlie. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 27 In this they most lewdly corrupte the olde institution. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, ii. i. 167 A sort of naughtie persons, lewdly bent. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 675/2, I thinke they are most lewdly abused. 1600Holland Livy i. xlix. 34 Fearing..that he had given an ill precedent for others, to take vantage against himselfe, attaining to the crown so leaudly. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. iv. 9 The goods you have so lewdly gotten by your wicked and cunning devices. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 182 Thy self not free, but to thy self enthrall'd; Yet leudly dar'st our ministring upbraid.
†3. Badly, poorly, ill. to think lewdly of, to have a poor opinion of. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 59 Bycause drynke hath dominacion Vpon this man,..I trowe he lewedly wolde telle his tale. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 621/1 Those sayd gentellmens children, being thus in the ward of those Lordes, are..therby brought up lewdly, and Irish⁓like. 1672Dryden Assignation i. i, For his Violin, it squeaks so lewdly, that Sir Tibert in the gutter mistakes him for his Mistriss. 1678A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy ii. i, I'll make such aukward love as shall persuade her..to think most lewdly of my parts.
4. Lasciviously.
1608Shakes. Per. iv. ii. 156 As my giuing out her beautie stirs vp the lewdly enclined. 1621Quarles Esther v. E 3 b, Each Virgin keepes her turne, and all the night They lewdly lauish in the Kings delight. 1624Heywood Gunaik. iv. 169 This Macareus and Canace having most leaudly and incestuously loved one another. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus xv. 5 Touch not lewdly the mistress of my passion. |