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Quotation dates: 1420-1495, 1549-1596
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Hastily, Haistily, adv. Also: hastyly, haistylye, -ilie, -ielie, -alie, hestilie. [ME. hastyly, -ily, -ilé (a 1300), f. haisty Hasty a.] Hastily, in haste.Freq. used by Wyntoun, but otherwise rare in comparison with Hastely. c1420 Wynt. iii. 98.
To the dure in hy Scho tuk hyr rayk rycht hastyly c1420 Ib. viii. 4705.
Schyre Thomas Broun … syne was hevyddyt hastily 1456 Hay II. 123/21.
To lay a mete hastily apon ane othir 1456 Ib. 148/35.
To ansuere the mare murely … and nocht ansuere sa hastily 1495 Acts Lords of Council 393/2.
He couth nocht optene sa haistily his sesing 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 34/34.
Nou … ve becum haistylye venqueist a1578 Pitsc. I. 67/30.
The bischope randerit his spreit hastielie a1578 Ib. 190/9.
Thir two war hestilie put downe 1596 Dalr. II. 419/17.
He promises … the haistilier to haist the voyage of … his brother
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