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▪ I. † ˈwoodly, a. Obs. rare. [OE. wódlic: see wood a. and -ly1.] Mad, frantic, furious.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 182 Sa eadiᵹa Benedictus..manode þone reðan ehtere þæt he ðære wodlican reðnysse ᵹeswice. c1422Hoccleve Learn to Die 700 The fyry flaumbes..In which the soules brenne in woodly wyse. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge ii. 789 Roryng and yellyng his outragious trespase, [he] Tore his tonge a-sonder in wodely violence. ▪ II. ˈwoodly, adv. Obs. or dial. Forms: see wood a. [OE. wódlíce: see wood a. and -ly2.] Madly, ferociously, furiously, wildly, passionately.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 230 Hi wæron..mid deofle afyllede, ðaða hi swa wodlice to ðam welwillendan Hælende spræcon. c1000tr. Basil's Admon. vi. (Norman 1849) 46 Ðam wulfe ᵹelic ðe wodlice abiteð ða..sceap. c1000in Assmann Hom. (1889) 6/145 Þam unðeawfæstum, ðe wodlice drincað and heora ᵹewitt amyrrað. c1205Lay. 3201 He mochul a þa wodeloker wilnede þeos mæidenes. c1330Arth. & Merl. 9426 King Margaras..Ban asailed wodeliche. c1350Will. Palerne 550 Þat i wrouȝt so wodly & wold to him speke. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1752 Lucrece, Desyr That in his herte brende as any fer So wodly that his wit is al forgetyn. a1400Morte Arth. 2827 Wyes..appone wyght horsez, Walopande wodely. c1400Destr. Troy 3694 The wyndes full wodely wackont anon. a1500Hist. K. Boccus & Sydracke (? 1510) P iv b, Yf he loue one wodly. 1556Olde Antichrist 163 Antichrist layeth about him so woodly. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Anagr. & Sonn. Wks. ii. 251/1 He rose..And frantickly ran woodly through the wood. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. v. iii, They skelpit me when woodly fleid. |