† ferlifuladj.
Scottish and northern dialect. Obsolete.quasi-adverb.a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 41 Off ferlifull fyne favour war thair faceis meik.
Fearful, wonderful.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adjective] > with quality of strangeness
selcouthc888
uncouthc900
sellya1000
ferly?c1225
strangec1374
nicec1395
ferlifula1400
monsterfulc1460
portentous1553
miraculous1569
vengible1594
strangefula1618
phenomenous1743
phenomenala1850
very like a whale1859
weird and wonderful1859
fourth-dimensional1902
out of this world1941
unreal1965
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb] > with a degree of strangeness
selcouthlyc1175
ferlyc1230
selcoutha1300
disguisilyc1325
ferlifula1400
ferlilya1400
sellylyc1400
miraculouslya1425
ferlifullyc1425
strangelya1450
strangefully1664
portentously1755
miraculous1781
like magic1783
phenomenally1878
out of this world1941
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9314 Man sal him clep wit nams sere, ‘Ferliful’ and ‘conseiler’.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 453 The mast ferlifull [1489 Adv. ferlyfull] sycht That euir I saw.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 2 Thair fell ane ferlyfull flan within thay fellis wide.
Derivatives
ˈferlifully adv. fearfully, wonderfully.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb] > with a degree of strangeness
selcouthlyc1175
ferlyc1230
selcoutha1300
disguisilyc1325
ferlifula1400
ferlilya1400
sellylyc1400
miraculouslya1425
ferlifullyc1425
strangelya1450
strangefully1664
portentously1755
miraculous1781
like magic1783
phenomenally1878
out of this world1941
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxiv. 63 Swa deyd þat knycht ferlyfully.
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