† miseaselyadv.
Obsolete.
Miserably, wretchedly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adverb]
noughtlyeOE
litherOE
naughtlyOE
litherlya1225
simplya1325
miseaselyc1330
wretchedlyc1340
lewdlyc1386
unhappily1390
miserably?a1425
lodderlyc1425
sorrily1496
singly1548
naughtily1574
sillily1581
lamentably1585
evilly1587
woefully1592
scurvily1616
execrably1633
grievously1742
miscreantly1744
queasily1845
fecklessly1862
God-forsakenly1913
the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adverb] > so as to cause misery
wretchedly1297
miseaselyc1330
miserably1535
desolatingly1888
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 1804 (MED) A palmer he seȝe cominge, Messaisliche bi þe strete walkinge.
?c1335 Erthe upon Erthe (Harl. 913) (1911) 3 (MED) Whan erþ haþ erþ wiþ streinþ þus geten, Alast he haþ is leinþ miseislich i-meten.
1372 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 79 (MED) Þe child þat lith so poreli..& bounden so misesli, fro heuene he is i-sent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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