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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456
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Mur(e)ly, adv. [Late ME. and e.m.E. meuerly (c 1400), murely (Lydgate), muerely (Caxton), f. Mure a.] Demurely, meekly; advisedly, consideredly. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxi. 608.
For-thi done scho held the hed mare & murly mad sic ansuere 1456 Hay II. 148/35.
Thus sall thai be better avysit and tak layser to ansuere the mare murely and ryply ane othir tyme and nocht ansuere sa hastily
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