A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1400, 1498-1513, 1569-1586
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Wondirlie, Wounderlie, adv. Also: wondirly, wonderlie, -ly, wondyrly, wondryly, wounderly. [ME and e.m.E. (obs.) wunderliche, wonderliche (both Layamon), wonderli (c1350), wounderly (c1500), OE wunderlíce, MLG, MDu. wunderlîke.] = Wondirfullie adv. Cf. esp. quot. Maitl. F.(a) 1375 Barb. i 296.
Bot wonderly hard thing fell Till him or he till state wes brocht 1375 Barb. xvii 6.
Thai sa wonderly blyth wer Off his come that na man mycht say a1400 Legends of the Saints vii 279.
At the mydnycht Of thar grete feste, thar com a lycht That wondryly wes brycht & clere. That to the tempil & to the awtere Enwyrent a1400 Legends of the Saints xi 455.
The thonir throw sa wondyrly, That it the tempil done in hy Gert fal a1500 Golagros and Gawane 162.
Wondirly wraithly he wroght, and all as of were 1513 Doug. i ix 107.
For the banket mony rich claith of pall Was spred, and mony badkyn wonderly [Sm. wonderlie, Ruddim. wounderly; L. arte laboratae] wrocht a1570-86 Merser in Maitland Folio MS 412/25.
Eird vpone eird that wondirlie is wrocht(b) a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1160 (Asl.).
Lucifer … Quhais perrellus panis na speche can expreme … Thai ar sa … wounderlie extreme 1513 Doug. i ix 107 (Ruddim.) (see (a) above).
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