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▪ I. † ˈoldly, a. Obs. rare—1.
[f. old a. + -ly1.]
Verging on old age, elderly.
1382Wyclif Job xli. 23 [32] He shal eymen the se as an oldli man [Vulg. quasi senescentem].
▪ II. ˈoldly, adv. rare.
[f. old a. + -ly2.]
a. In the manner of one that is old.
b. In an old or bygone manner.
c. In old time, long ago.
c1200Ormin 1229 Oxe ganngeþþ haȝheliȝ & aldelike lateþþ. Ibid. 2553 Ȝho toc onn full aldeliȝ To fraȝȝnenn Godess enngell. c1440Bone Flor. 248 He coghyth and oldely grones. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 294 This so oldly foundyd Is so surely groundyd That no man maye confounde it. 1529Wolsey in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 13 With the ampliacion of the fee, above that wych ys oldely accustomyd, to the summe of xlli. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 216 Talke or walke oldly or newly: Talke and walke plainly and trewly. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 103 Fluds mightye be rowling From the chyn oldlye riueld. 1910W. de la Mare Three Mulla-Mulgars xviii. 241 ‘On his woman-hand stood no fourth finger.’ ‘Was the little woman-finger newly gone, or oldly gone?’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 34 He raised his forefinger and beat the air oldly before his voice spoke. 1960‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick 244 He chuckled oldly. |