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▪ I. † ˈbigly, a. Obs.
Also bygly, byggly.
[f. big v. to inhabit + -ly1.]
Habitable, fit or pleasant to dwell in; hence gen. pleasant.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 962 Bryng me to þat bygly bylde, & let me se þy blysful bor. c1440York Myst. vi. 42 To byggly blys we bothe were brought. c1440Bone Flor. 220 He wyll dystroye thy bygly landys. c1450Henryson Bludy Serk 13 Scho wynnit in a bigly bour, On feld wes none so fair. [a1803Erlington i. in Child Ball. i. (1882) 107/1 He has built a bigly bower, An a' to put that lady in.]
▪ II. bigly, adv.|ˈbɪglɪ|
[f. big a. + -ly2.]
†1. With great force or violence; firmly, strongly, violently. Obs.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. C. 321 Þe barrez of vche a bonk ful bigly me haldes. c1400Destr. Troy xiv. 6035 Knyt hom with cables..And bound hom full bigly on hor best wise. 1470–85Malory Arthur (1816) I. 416 So roughly and so bigly, that there was not one that might withstand him. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lxxviii. 140 A serius argument: Whether I should liue or die, was biglie bent.
2. Loudly, boastfully, haughtily, pompously.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 397/1 And bereth it out bigly wt shameles deuelyshe heresie. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 104 Goliah thought bigly of himself. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlvi. 218 Oftentimes Authoritie lookes biglier than a Bull. 1741Johnson Debates in Parl. (1787) II. 246 Talking bigly, indeed, of vindicating foreign rights. 1846Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. II. 299 He spoke as bigly and fiercely as a soaken yeoman at an election feast. |