† bedlamlyadv.
Obsolete.
Like a madman, insanely.
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a1569 E. Bonner Decl. to Cromwell in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) II. 1242/2 To speake as vndiscretly and bedlemly, as ye do.
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