speedilyadv.
/ˈspiːdɪli/ In a speedy manner; with speed or celerity; quickly.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adverb]
yeverlyeOE
cofeOE
snellya1000
whatlichea1000
swiftlyc1000
yernea1023
skeetc1175
swithc1175
whatec1175
lightly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
swithc1275
fastc1300
quickc1300
titec1300
quicklya1325
rada1325
snellc1330
titelyc1330
swithly?1370
hastlya1375
ketlya1375
ketec1380
speedlyc1380
speedfully1398
keenlya1400
skeetlya1400
speedilya1400
swiftc1400
yederlyc1400
apacea1423
rasha1475
runninglyc1475
speedful?c1480
rackly?a1500
rashly1533
stiffly1535
roundly1548
post1549
fleet1587
fleetly1598
speedy1601
raptly1646
fastisha1650
wingedly1651
rapidly1653
rapid1677
velociously1680
express1765
quicklike1782
spankingly1803
spankily1842
fleetingly1883
quick-foot1891
on the quick-foot1894
zippily1924
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb]
quickly?c1225
hastilyc1275
hastlya1375
speedilya1400
subito?a1640
handy1832
jildi1919
ricky-tick1978
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4048 Þat loueword had sua spedili spredd.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 19214 Spedily [Vesp. spedli, Fairf. spedeli] spelled þei goddes word.
c1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) 1 Gladly take and spedily fulfil þe warnyng of þe meke fadir.
1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 16 The seedes sowen in due chosen time..doth speediliest breake forth and shoote vp.
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 213 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 267 Syne to hir madin spedyly scho spak.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvi. 79 Your Iustices, That these our nether crimes so speedely can venge.
1659 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 97 Itt being high tyme..speedily to looke out for a place for him.
a1700 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 346 To the end she may the speedierly Arrive to Inioy the company of ye Blessed.
1749 Naval Chron. 3 93 An opportunity of closing the Line speedilyer.
1779 Mirror No. 65 The marriage was speedily concluded.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 28 An example that was speedily followed by that of Dodonæus.
1877 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. x. 117 A short altercation..ended speedily in high words on both sides.
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