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slackly, adv.|ˈslæklɪ|
Forms: 1 sleaclice, 4 slacli, 5–6 slakly, 6 slacklie, -lye, 6– slackly; 5 slackelich, 5–7 -ly.
[f. slack a. + -ly2.]
1. In a remiss or negligent manner; without due diligence or energy.
c960Rule St. Benet (Schröer) xliii. 68 Wen is, þæt sume..sleaclice laᵹon and slepon. 1388Wyclif 2 Macc. xii. 14 These that weren with ynne, tristiden to the stablenesse of wallis,..and diden slacliere. 1422Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 160 For-als-moche that he his Sonnes..slackely reprowid and not chastid. 1531Tindale Exp. 1 John (1537) 99 Therfor is that office so slackly executed. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 622/2 The same Statutes are soe slacklye penned..that they are often..wrested to the fraud of the subject. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. v. ii. iii. (1651) 387 They use them rashly, unprofitably, slackly, and to no purpose. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 627 Descending suddenly to assault Voorne Island, if it were slackly guarded. 1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 72 Their laws..have ever been slackly executed. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxvi, The summons was very slackly obeyed. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxiii, You would find—after your education in doing things slackly for one-and-twenty years—great difficulties in study.
2. Without due vigour or force; slowly.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxxix. (Bodl. MS.), By openyng þereof þe vertu passith and þe lyuour worcheþ þe more slackelich. 1511Guylforde's Pilgr. (Camden) 58 We sayled forth slakly and easely ayenst the wynde. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 32 When he dooth set foorth on his iournie verie slacklie and slowlie. 1648Hexham ii. s.v. Slappelick, To go Slackly, Faintly, or Slowly to worke. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxxxvii. 7 When one would aim an arrow fair, But send it slackly from the string.
b. Not busily or briskly.
1884American IX. 148 Times are dull and labor slackly employed. 1892Gissing New Grub Street I. 5 When one kind of goods begins to go slackly, he is ready with something new.
3. Not tightly or firmly; loosely.
1486Bk. St. Albans B vj, Tho saame lewnes [= lunes for hawks] þou shalt fastyn slackely as a bowstryng vnocupyede. 1532More Confut. Tindale iv. Wks. 591/2 So god agayne⁓warde vseth hymselfe towarde hym, in holdynge hym the more slackely. 1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 35 Some in her threeden fillet still did bide,..Though slackly braided in loose negligence. 1730Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 454 A Piece of Muslin..tied slackly about the Neck. 1805Naval Chron. XIII. 243 This accident happened from her being..slackly rigged. 1879Dixon Royal Windsor II. i. 6 The gown was caught in slackly by a belt. |