A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1527, 1590-1610
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Hely, adv. Also: heely, heli(e, heily, -lie, helely. [Var. of Heyly, Hiely, with the vowel of the rare ME. helych.] Highly, in various senses: greatly, extremely, much, very; in a high station or position; loudly, aloud; haughtily, proudly.(1) ? 1405 Brit. Mus. Vespasian MS. F. VII. fol. 86.
I am the mare heely arguyt qwen ony sic attemptatis hapnys ? 1405 Ib.
[I am] in grete aventure to he heely reprovit c1420 Wynt. v. 4290.
Hely movyt in to gret ire c1420 Ib. ix. 3144.
The multitude … Commendyt heily his affere 1424 Cambuskenneth Let. (Reg. H.).
Of the quhilk we ar richt heli reiosit 1489 Brus i. 577 (E).
He suld … Be rewardyt and that hely c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 368.
Quhill hely raise my renovne amang the rude peple 1527 Douglas Corr. 342.
Scho is helie set contrary the kingis hienes 1600-1610 Melvill 349.
God [would be] mair heilie offendit for … mockage(2) c1460 Consail Wys Man 133.
Be thow neuer so hely born, Dryve never pwre na riche to scorne(3) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxii. 708.
Hely scho sad, that al mycht here, [etc.] a1400 Ib. xl. 902.
Jak … trumpit heily … , and with al mycht bettir blew 1489 Brus iii. 734 (E).
In the land … ner thar-by Men mycht her wemen hely cry c1590 J. Stewart 150/27.
Vaine men vith vords vill heli contend(4) c1420 Wynt. vii. 1632 (C).
On ilka syde gret parteys Helely begouthe to rys 1487 Brus xviii. 509 (C).
He wount wes till spek hely At hayme and our dispitfullya1500 Prestis of Peblis 1163.
Helely and lichtlie of him [I] leit
