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oddly, adv.|ˈɒdlɪ|
[f. odd a. + -ly2.]
In an odd manner.
1. In reference to number: Not evenly; in oddly even, oddly odd: see even a. 15 c, odd A. 2 c.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 5 Even Numbers Oddly, these may be parted into equal halves, but the halves will be odd.
†2. Singly, solely, alone. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 923 Þou art oddely þyn one out of þis fylþe.
†3. Singularly; remarkably; nobly, rarely, choicely. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 698, I compast hem a kynde crafte..& amed hit in myn ordenaunce oddely dere. c1400Destr. Troy 6859 So odly þai foght, That the grekes gaf bake. c1425St. Christina iii. in Anglia VIII. 120/40 Þen was I odly mery. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 1624 Thy wordes & my mynde odly well agree. 1541Elyot Gov. iii. vi, Cutting an odly great pomegranate.
4. In an uneven, irregular, or incongruous manner; † so as not to be even or equally balanced (obs.); irregularly; in a haphazard way.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. v. 61 How odly thou repli'st: Your Loue saies like an honest Gentleman: Where is your Mother? 1596― Merch. V. i. ii. 79 How odly he is suited. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 166 In Persia..Justice is so odly ballanced. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Rich. II, ccxcv, Nothing comes odly in; but from a fixt Determination, all things Rise or Fall. 1722De Foe Plague (1884) 192 People..who having no Subsistence or Habitation..liv'd oddly. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 89 Pattering acorns oddly drop.
5. In an extraordinary, unusual, or peculiar manner; strangely; fantastically, grotesquely.
1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 197 How odly will it sound, that I Must aske my childe forgiuenesse? 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 28 A Japan Letter, odly painted. 1713Berkeley Hylas & Phil. i. Wks. 1871 I. 271, I profess it sounds oddly, to say that sugar is not sweet. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 44 How oddly beauties will behave! 1877Black Green Past. xxiv. (1878) 190 Oddly enough he seemed to take a greater interest than ever in the Von Rosens.
b. Often hyphened to pples. used attrib.
a1704Locke (J.), Some oddly-shaped fetus. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xiv. 302 The most strenuous adversaries of this oddly-fated Prince. 1879Dowden Southey v. 136 The oddly-assorted pair met in Taylor's house. 1886E. S. Morse Jap. Homes vi. 275 Oddly-shaped stones. |