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▪ I. † ˈlitherly, a. Obs.
[f. lither a. + -ly1. OE. had lýþerlic in the sense of sordid, mean; cf. G. liederlich (mentioned s.v. lither a.).]
a. Spiteful, mischievous.
b. Idle, lazy.
1573Tusser Husb. lxxxv. (1878) 174 Some litherly lubber more eateth than twoo, yet leaueth vndone that another will doo. a1643W. Cartwright Ordinary ii. ii. (1651) 25 What wends against the grain is lytherly. 1684H. More Answer 24 To awaken them out of their remisness and litherly formalness. 1805Scott Last Minstr. ii. xxxii, He was waspish, arch and litherlie.
▪ II. † ˈlitherly, adv. Obs.
For forms see lither a. and -ly2.
[f. lither a. + -ly2.]
In a ‘lither’ manner. a. Wickedly, deceitfully, viciously. b. Badly, meanly, miserably, wretchedly. c. Idly, lazily.
c1050Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 178/27 Pessime, luþerlice. a1225St. Marher. 4 Thine forðfederes beoð..forloren luðerliche. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1563 Ðin broðer iacob was her nu And toc ðin bliscing liðer-like. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 36 What vrþly haþel..Wolde lyke, if a ladde com lyþerly attyred. c1350Will. Palerne 1231 Leþerly as a lyoun he lepes in-to þe prese. c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 113 A clerk hadde litherly biset his whyle, But if he koude a Carpenter bigyle. a1400Morte Arth. 1263 To unlordly he wyrkez, Thus letherly agaynes law to lede my pople. c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 171 Men say ‘lyght chepe letherly for-yeldys’. 1550Coverdale Spir. Perle xvii. (1588) 167 Earnestly, manfully, and not litherly or faintly. a1583Arbuthnot in Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems (1786) 144 Men wes sueir, and durst not steir; But lurkit lidderlie. 1600Holland Livy ii. lviii. 83 Doing all things that they did, litherly, slowly, rekelesly and stubbornely. |