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▪ I. † ˈworthly, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 weorðlic, wurðlic, 2 wurdlich (compar. wuredluker), 3 wurð-, wurþlich (superl. wurðlukest), 4 wurthli; 3–4 worþlich (3 superl. -lokest, 4 compar. -loker), 4 wortlich, -lych, worþelych, 5 worþeliche; 4 worþ-, worthli, -ly, worþe-, worthely.
[OE. weorðlic, wurðlic, f. weorð worth n.1 + -ly1.]
1. Of things: Having great value or importance; noble, fine, excellent, worthy.
c893ælfred Oros. iii. x. 140 Papirius..weorþlicne siᵹe hæfde. a900Juliana 9 Wæs his rice brad, wid & weorðlic. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xix. 143 Hi worhton eac þa wurðlice cyrcan. c1100O.E. Chron. (MS.D.) an. 1058, He..wurðlic lac ᵹeoffrode. c1175Lamb. Hom. 47 Heo hafð mid hire þreo wurdliche mihte. c1205Lay. 11772 Ah loke wulche..wunliche londes, whulche wurðliche wude. Ibid. 28923 He..bad alle þe ȝeonglinges..þat heo heom biȝeten wurðliche wepnen. a1240Ureisun in O.E. Hom. I. 187 Hwi nis me unwurhþ elc wurþliche þing aȝein þe muchel delit of þi swetnesse. c1320Sir Tristr. 1029 Swiche meting nas neuer non made Wiþ worþli wepen wiȝt. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 464, I wysse a worþloker won to welde I neuer keped. 1340–70Alisaunder 1024 Hee aboute hath ibene..And iwonne at his will þe wortlych places. c1350Libeaus Desc. (Kaluza) 761 Her wer a worþly won For man, þat wer in doute. 1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 146 Riches of golde, syluer, yowelis, and othyr worthely possessionys. 14..in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 126 The cyttezyns..shall have alle ande every franches..þe whiche of worthely mynde be progenys of oure lorde the kynge,..to hem and to hys sayde cytte were grauntyde.
2. Of persons: Estimable, honourable, worthy.
c888ælfred Boeth. xxxiii. §1 Ᵹeþenc hu weorðlic and hu foremærlic þe wolde se mon þincan. c1100O.E. Chron. (MS. D.) an. 1023, Hi þa mid weorðlicum weorode..hine.. feredan. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 29 Ðu ert wel don man and þarto wurðlich. c1205Lay. 25496 Wenhauer his quene, wurðlukest [c 1275 worþlokest] wiuen. c1275Ibid. 26459 Hii þanne gonne go and leope to horse, worþliche kempes. c1320Sir Tristr. 1687 Play miri he may Wiþ þat worþli wiȝt. a1352Minot Poems v. 38 Als wise man of wordes and worthli in wede. c1394P. Pl. Crede 233 Canstou me graiþ tellen To any worþely wijȝt. c1467in Excerpta Hist. (1831) 188 That no man thenk that I..undirtake the thynges abovesaide by any arrogance..to be callid worthly.
▪ II. † ˈworthly, adv. Obs.
Forms: 3 wurðeliche, -like, wurðliche (wirdliche, Orm. wurrþlike), -lich, -lic; 3–5 worþliche, 3–4 worþ-, worthli, 5 worthely, wordly, 4–6 worthly.
[f. worth a. + -ly2.]
1. = worthily adv. 1.
c1200Ormin 8177 All he wass wurrþlike shridd, Alls iff he wære o life. c1205Lay. 14164 Þu sca[l]t habben gærsume hæhliche heom to ueden & wurðliche scruden. a1225Ancr. R. 174 Heo schulen beon ine heouene, ouer oðer kunnes folke, wurðliche iheied. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1518 Ðor he was for his fadres luuen Holden wurðelike a wel a-buuen. c1350Will. Palerne 673 He..welcomes hir worþli. Ibid. 3202 Whan þei were cloþed worþli in here wedes. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 184 When we war in that fayre palays, It was ful worthly wroght always.
2. = worthily adv. 2.
c1205Lay. 5770 Þe sculleð eow wurðliche wreken. a1400–50Wars Alexander 1428 Þan Alexander..Wynnes worthly ouer þe wallis with-in to þe cite.
3. = worthily adv. 4.
c1200Vices & Virtues 21 His flesc and his blod,..ȝif ic hit swa wurðliche underfenge, swa hit wurðe wære. c1200Ormin 1033 Þatt follkess haliᵹdomess, Þatt wærenn inn an arrke þær Wel & wurrþlike ᵹemmde. a1300Cursor M. 11618 Þe lauerd agh yee worthli to lufe. 1551S. Gardiner Expl. Cath. Fayth 18 For such as receaue Christes most precious body and bloud in the Sacrament worthly, they haue Christ dwellyng in them.
4. = worthily adv. 3 c.
1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 43 Hyt was so gret and ynestymable that y can not remembre..how y myght wordly speke of hyt. |