A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1420
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Ferli-, Ferlyfully, adv. Also: ferlefully. [f. Ferliful(l,a.] Wonderfully, marvellously.a1400 Legends of the Saints x. 117.
Thame that ware lunatyke … He restoyrit ferlyfully a1400 Ib. 140.
Thare pryd … Ferlefully thane God put done c1420 Wynt. viii. 3573.
Behaldand, how ferlyfully [C. ferlefully] Thai saw thaire folk on othirly c1420 Ib. 5063.
Swa deid that knycht ferlyfully