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Quotation dates: 1375-1594
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Ithandly, Ythandly, Ithanly, adv. Also: -lie, ythanly, ythenly, ithinglie. [Northern ME. iþenli, iþinlic (Cursor M.), otherwise appar. only Sc. Cf. Idandlie.] Assiduously, diligently, persistently; constantly, continuously, incessantly, without intermission.(a) 1375 Barb. vi. 327 (E).
Worschip … mays men till haiff loving Giff it be folowit ythenly 1375 Ib. xiv. 320.
Rychard of Clar … Wes gaderand men ay ythenly(b) 1375 Barb. ii. 57.
Thai said that he, sen ȝhystirday, Duelt in his chambyr ythanly a1400 Legends of the Saints v. 518.
His discipulis … Prayt hym to tel [tham] quhy He sad tha vordis ythanvy a1400 Ib. xxvii. 193.
Of hyre wit scho ȝed nere wod … Eftyre help criand ithanly 1562-3 Winȝet I. 61/22.
The erroneous and contentious pleidaris quha … ithanlie labouris to subuert the sillie semple anis(c) a1400 Legends of the Saints xii. 335.
Thire men that … saw all Cristis maraklys … & ythandly hard his lare c1420 Wynt. II. 1629.
This Ewandire that batayle Gawe to Kyng Latyn ythandly c1420 Ib. iv. 2678 (W).
Freris Minoris ythandly In to that ilk chapell alway Seruice God a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 87.
Thai … gart him ythandly aye leire Quhill the ending of the sevyn ȝere 1513 Doug. v. xiv. 75.
So gan the salt jawpis ythandly smyte The holl rolkis 1533 Bell. Livy II. 107/33.
I herd be clamoure … that the batell continewit ythandlie to the myddis of the nycht 1533 Boece v. iv. 170.
Gald … to quhom for contynuall weris grete expens behuffit ythandlie be furnyst(d) a1400 Legends of the Saints ii. 811.
Ithandvy it [Rome] brint sewin dais But cessinge a1400 Ib. v. 491.
Manis brokilnes ma nocht Of contemplacion haf thocht Bot [= without] sum disport ithandly a1400 Ib. xxxiv. 34.
With sic kynd of spicery Scho ennoyntit wes ithandly 1456 Hay I. 165/9.
A prince suld … pray God to help him ithandly 1513 Doug. xiii. iv. 67.
Emottis … That ithandly lawbouris and byssy be 1533 Boece v. vii. 177.
The hare … rynnys ithandlie & may sone be slane be sic wayis c 1570 Satirical Poems xx. 118.
Tratours kene That ithandly hes strenin For to deface the nobill race 1594 Misc. Bann. C. III. 168.
[He] did … oppone him selfe maist strangly aganis Inglishmen, and ithandly vexit them with greit … damnages
b. In a continuous downpour. 1533 Bell. Livy I. 71/25.
The stanis fell als ythandlie out of the lift as dois the round hailstanis … drevin be violence of wyndis in the erde a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxv. 45.
Trimbling teiris distilling ithinglie Out from his eis lyik flowing stremis of raine
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