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▪ I. † ˈwarely, a. Obs. Forms: 1 wærlic, 5 warli, waarly, 4–5 warly. [OE. wærlic, f. wær ware n.1: see -ly1. Cf. ON. varligr.] Of a person, his actions, etc.: Cautious, circumspect, prudent.
a900Cynewulf Elene 544 (Gr.) Wisdomes beðearf, worda wærlicra, & witan snyttro, se ðære æðelan sceal and wyrde aᵹifan. a1000Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 201/40 Cauta, wærlic, sollicita. c1000Laws of æthelred vi. xxxiii. (Lieberm.), Wærlic bið, þæt man æᵹhwilce ᵹeare sona æfter eastron yrdscipa ᵹearwiᵹe. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 242 For knowynge of perels makiþ men warlyer to flee hem. c1400Destr. Troy 649, I wull send to you sone by a sure maydon: Bes wakond and warly. c1400Rule St. Benet (Verse) 453 Bot first hir-self,..Sal councel þam,..Bi wordes warli anes or twis. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 178/2 Men ought to thynke dyscretly and by waarly delyberacyon; yf a thynge is lawfull to be doon. ▪ II. † ˈwarely, adv. Obs. Forms: 1 wærlíce, 3 wearliche, 3–4 warliche, warli, (3 warlyche), 4–6 warly, Sc. varly, 4 waarly, (5 waarli, werly), 5–6 Sc. warlie, 6 warelye, 5–6 warely. [OE. wærlíce, f. wær ware a.: see -ly2.] Watchfully, cautiously, circumspectly; prudently. Cf. warily adv.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxviii. 190 Forðæm him is swiðe micel ðearf ðæt he swæ micle wærlicor [L. tanto cautius] hiene healde wið scylda. c1000ælfric Jos. ii. 16 Farað eow nu wærlice and ᵹewendað to muntum. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 199 Bute we þe warluker us bureȝen. c1205Lay. 12277 Ah ælfwald & his broðer al heo þuhten oðer heo uerden swiðe warliche. Ibid. 12300 Þa cheorles wenden to þan wuden & warliche heom hudden. a1225Ancr. R. 198 Goð, þauh, ful warliche: vor iðisse wildernesse beoð monie vuele bestes. a1240Sawles Warde in O.E. Hom. I. 245 We ahen wearliche to biwiten us seoluen wið þe unwiht of helle ant his wrenches. 1388Wyclif 1 Sam. xviii. 14 And Dauid dide warli [1382 wiseli, Vulg. prudenter] in alle hise weies. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 12 Putte it hotte vppon and bynde it warly þat it fal not away. c1440Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warely, or slyly, caute. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 194 The feendis wijlis and deceitis ben forto be waarli considerid and forto be smertli fled. 1540Palsgr. Acolastus iv. iii. T j b, He that ones falleth into the dytche, wyll after loke better or warelyer or he lepe. 1548–9Book Com. Prayer, Offices 31 And maye walke more warely in these daungerous dayes. 1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. ii. 100 He speaketh also of Ceremonies and traditions, as moderately, as diuinely, and as warely as any man dothe. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 36 They..bound him hand and foote with yron chains. And with continuall watch did warely keepe. 1594Plat Jewel-ho. iii. 34 So as the same bee warely distilled with a trew diuision of the partes. 1908Hardy Dynasts iii. iii. iii, He warely closes up his remnant to the walls. |