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▪ I. fiendly, a.|ˈfiːndlɪ| [OE. féondlic, f. féond, fiend + -lic, -ly1.] †1. Hostile, unfriendly. Obs. After the OE. period perh. always with mixture of sense 2.
c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 168 Hosticus, uet hostilis, feondlic. c1175Lamb. Hom. 107 [W]e maȝen þurh godes fulste þa fondliche sunnan mid icompe ouercuman. c1205Lay. 8660 He fusde heom to mid feondliche strengðe. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 750 He semed frendly..But he was fendly, both in werk and thought. 1470–85Malory Arthur xvi. xvi, He ranne vpon his broder as a fendly man. a1529Skelton Image Hypocr. 346 To feyne yourselves frindley And be nothinge but fyndly. 2. Resembling or befitting a fiend; fiendlike, devilish, diabolical.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 605 This feendly wrecche..Out of his bosom took a bechen cole. c1422Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 784 It manly is to synne, But feendly is longe lye ther-ynne. 1470–85Malory Arthur xi. i, An horryble & a fyendly dragon. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) G v, This is their chiefe study and findly pollicy. 1562T. Phaer æneid. viii. Y j b, Cacus fiendly sprite. 1801Southey Thalaba ix. xxvii, ‘Curse thee!’ cried the fiendly woman. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam viii. xxi, Yes it is Hate, that shapeless fiendly thing. 1831Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXX. 554 You talk as if you suspected the Peers of having profited by the Fiendly Advice. Hence ˈfiendliness, the state of being fiendly.
1860Lit. Churchm. VI. 264/1 The ferocious fiendliness to which the whole..population had been brought. ▪ II. † ˈfiendly, adv. Forms: 1 féondlice, 3 -liche. [OE. féondlíce, f. féond, fiend + -líce, -ly2.] In a fiendly manner. a. Like an enemy, angrily. b. Like a fiend, terribly.
a1000Juliana 118 (Gr.) Hyre þa þurh yrre ageaf andsware fæder feondlice. c1205Lay. 85 Vt of þan fehte þe was feondliche stor, Eneas the duc mid ermde at-wond. |