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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1375-1438, 1499-1500, 1560

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Angerly, Angrely, adv. Also: angerlie, angirly, angyrly. [ME. angerly, -liche (14th c.). Cf. ON. angrligr sad, and Angrily adv.]

l. Sorely, painfully.c1420 Wynt. vi. 494.
Hyr chyld-ill … Travalyd hyr sa angyrly, That suddanly thare wes scho dede

2. In a violent manner; furiously.1375 Barb. vii. 612; 1375 Ib. viii. 486.
He thame soucht so angyrly, That thai … Out of the woud ran to the plane

3. With anger; angrily.1375 Barb. iv. 321 (E).
Then lukyt he angyrly thaim to
a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvi. 826.
Lumbardis … hyme askit ful angrely The dekine
?1438 Alex. i. 763.
He leuch … as in hething, And angerly can answer ma
a1500 Henr. Fab. 2408.
Than angerlie the Uolf upon him cryis
a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1447.
The lord … angrely has hir reprevit
1560 Rolland Seven Sages 87/3.
The Empreour said, in Ire all angerlie [etc.]

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