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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1533-1596
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Facilly, -il(l)ie, adv. [e.m.E. facily (1528), late ME. facely (1490).] Easily. — 1533 Boece vi. xiii. 211.
[That he] mycht contene thame mare facilly at his opinioun 1533 Ib. xi. xvi. 438 b.
Thir wourdis … facilie inflammyt Malcolme 1573 Bann. Memor. 295.
To … haue forane intelligence be which thei mycht mair facillie draw in strangeris 1596 Dalr. I. 246/5.
Facillie and with litle labour
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