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Quotation dates: 1375-1420, 1475-1650
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Hastely, Haistely, adv. Also: haistel(l)ie, -elye, -al(l)ie, hestely, -elie, -allie, heistelie, -elé, -ilie, heastalie. [ME. hastely, -li, -liche (c 1290). Cf. Hastily.] In or with haste, speedily, hurriedly.In frequent use throughout the 16th century.(a) 1375 Barb. vii. 203.
The kyng blenkit vp hastely 1375 Ib. x. 631.
Erll Thomas … Toward the wall clam hastely a1400 Legends of the Saints xl. 908.
The knycht … Come on hastely but ony haw c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1684.
Quho so haistis him … To pas a gat our hastely c1420 Ratis Raving 1157.
The froyt[is] … ryp nocht sa hastely c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 93.
Eduuard … gert sla hastely … vij thousand and fyfty 1513 Doug. i. iii. 81.
With that word hastely The … seys has swagit(b) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii. 1065.
Till Abyrdeyn than haistely thai pas 1523 Treasurer's Accounts V. 211.
That all maner of men … follow haistelie … for resisting of Inglismen 1533 Boece ii. iii. 62.
The king on nycht … haistelie was brocht to end 1556 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 256.
Becaus the samyn seill was auld and abill to dekay haistely a1578 Pitsc. I. 116/12.
He knew na support to be had haistelie c1650 Spalding II. 86.
He postis haistellie to Seatoun(c) (a1570-86 Dunb.) Maitland Folio MS cxxxiv. 59.
Gif I mend not haistalie 1554 Duncan Laideus Test. 155.
Be the way me haistalie thar metis My companions a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xxx. 76.
Sic chance hes bene richt haistallie a1578 Pitsc. I. 293/14.
Androw Forman … spuritt haistalie to Glasgow (d) 1543 Corr. M. Lorraine 45.
Gif he may be heisstele gottin 1540 Lynd. Sat. 430 (B).
He wilbe bot deid Withowt that ȝe mak hestelly remeid (a1570-86 Dunb.) Maitland Folio MS xxxviii. 224.
An hache hes happinnit hestelie at my hairt rute 1614 Highland P. II. 162.
It would hestelie tak effect c1615 Chron. Kings 70.
The King … deyitt heastellie
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