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▪ I. † ˈshortly, a. Obs. rare.
[f. short a. + -ly1.]
Brief, not long (in time).
a1050Liber Scintill. lxxx. (1889) 214 Se apostol sæde þæt soþlice þæt on andwerdum sceortlic oþþe hwilendlic [L. momentaneum] ys. a1340Hampole Psalter i. 2 His wil is in godis lawe..and þat will is noght ydell na shortly. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 664 When both hoosts were met within shortly space, such offers of a pease were proferid by the Frenshe Kynge, that fynally both prynces agreed vpon a pease.
▪ II. shortly, adv.|ˈʃɔːtlɪ|
[f. short a. + -ly2.]
1. Briefly, concisely, in few words.
c893ælfred Oros. i. i. §5 Scortlice ic hæbbe nu ᵹesæd ymb þa þrie dælas ealles þises middanᵹeardes. c1200Ormin 12788 Ta seȝȝde Filippe Shorrtlike till Natanaæl; Cum nu þe sellf, & loke. a1300Cursor M. 8520 For he þat mikel has for to tell Þe scortliker he aght to spell. 1340Ayenb. 252 Þeruore ich paci þe ssortlaker. 1390Gower Conf. I. 99 And schortly to descrive hire al, Sche hath no lith withoute a lak. 1472Paston Lett. III. 71 He can telle yow more shortlyer then I shuld wryte. 1581W. Charke in Confer. iv. (1584) E e j, Answere shortly. 1624Bedell Lett. x. 136 It would require a iust volume to shew it, though but shortly. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 1 The instances thereof,..shall be only these two, which I shall but shortly touch. 1805East's Rep. V. 254 The Attorney General was heard shortly in reply. 1886Act 49 Vict. c. 22. §4 (1) (a), An advertisement describing shortly the object for which the land is proposed to be taken.
†b. In short, ‘to speak briefly’. Also more fully, shortly (the sooth) to say, to say shortly, etc.
a1300Cursor M. 22203 Scortli to sai. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 6007 And, shortly, ȝow for to telle, Þys lady wulde nat hem selle. c1386Chaucer Prol. 30 And shortly..I was of hir felaweship anon. c1400Beryn 836 And for to seye shortlych, in Room was noon hym lych. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour g v b, And shortly to say he lost alle that he had. 1535Coverdale Eccl. ii. 8 (Shortly) I was greater in more worshipe, then all my predecessours in Ierusalem. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. §14. 175 Shortly, resolve us but this one thing.
c. Abruptly, curtly, sharply.
c1815Jane Austen Persuasion iv, ‘I think very differently’, answered Elizabeth, shortly. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. viii, ‘I won't sell a bit of him’, answered Tom, shortly. 1872H. Kingsley Hornby Mills I. 26, I am not the only person who ought to be taken up shortly. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iii, I wish I hadn't been obliged to send that cad Vincent to the right-about so shortly.
2. In a short time; not long after the present or the point reached in a narration; soon. † In early use also: With little delay, speedily, quickly: often in compar. or superl.
a1050Lamb. Ps. xxxvi. 10 & is nu ᵹyt vel scortlice vel lytel fæc & ne byð se synfulla. a1100Gloss. in Haupt's Zeitschrift IX. 527 Maturius, scortlicor. a1300Leg. Rood (1871) 38 Þo þe giwes i-somned were hi [hadde] schor[t]liche gret fere. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 519 For-þy schal I neuer schende so schortly at ones. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 519 And shortly turned was al vp so doun Bothe habit and eek disposicioun Of hym this woful louere daun Arcite. 1483Cely Papers (Camden) 138 Ze schall be payd be Easter and schorttlyer. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 1. §1 Grete multitude of people can not shortly resort to put theym of at theire landyng. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxxxviii. 344 The shortlyer yt ye do it, the gretter thanke we shall gyue you. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 600 The drawe Bridge could not be shortly drawen vp. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. v. 31, I shall grow iealous of you shortly Lancelet, if you thus get my wife into corners? 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 448 A French ship..shortly bound for Alexandria. 1798S. Lee Canterb. T., Yng. Lady's T. II. 84 [They] only invited her from knowing the consequence she would shortly have a right to. 1836J. R. Smith's Catal. Bks. Feb. 32 Shortly will be published, in one vol. 8vo..Bibliotheca Cantiana. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 34 Very shortly a treaty is on foot for a matrimonial alliance between the houses of Plantagenet and Hapsburg. 1871Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 14 Socrates.., after saying a prayer to the sun, shortly retired.
†b. quasi-n. odd shortly = odd-come-shortly: see odd Comb. 2.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 26. 2/2 We'l give him as good as he brings one of these odd shortlies, I warrant him.
3. At a short time after, before, † syne.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 158 And so ye viscount Rochforth retorned into England, and so did the bishop of Bathe shortly after. 1593Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 198 Shortlie after my deathe. c1643Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1824) 145 And so returning shortly after to his Excellency [I] related to him the success of my journey. 1752Scotland's Glory 19 Some hundred of our ministers They shortly syne silenced. 1832W. Palmer Orig. Liturg. I. 29 Shortly before, probably about the end of the fourth century, Jerome..said [etc.]. 1886C. E. Pascoe Lond. To-day xviii. (ed. 3) 162 On a given morning..shortly after noon. 1902R. Bagot Donna Diana xxviii. 353 Perhaps you will..ask him to meet us here shortly before four o'clock.
4. For a short time. rare.
1809Campbell Gertrude ii. vii, And see thee once again whom I too shortly saw! 1815Scott Guy M. xxvi, He's been but shortly in office. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer xxi, A lady whom she knew but shortly.
5. In a small compass.
1567Satir. Poems Reform. iii. 30 Dartis about him swyftlie could he fling, And rin ane rais and shortlie turne ane steid. 1833Darwin Jrnl. 15 Oct., It has the power of turning very shortly in the air.
6. At a short distance. rare.
1908Blackw. Mag. Aug. 205 Shortly south of Donabyu the river Irrawaddy dissolves its main stream.
7. Comb. Qualifying an adj. with the sense ‘having little length’. (Chiefly in Bot.)
1840Paxton Bot. Dict., Shortly-acuminated,..Shortly⁓bifid, Shortly-two-cleft. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. ii. v. 558 More often the cotyledons remain thin like shortly stalked foliage-leaves of simple form. |