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yarely, adv. arch.|ˈjɛəlɪ|
Forms: 5 ȝarely, ȝarle, -ly, 6 yeerlie, 7–9 yarely.
[OE. ᵹearolíce: see yare a. and -ly2, and cf. OS. garolîko, OHG. garalîhho (MHG. garlîche).]
Quickly, promptly; nimbly, briskly; † diligently; = yare adv. in various senses.
a900Cynewulf Elene 288 Ic þæt ᵹearolice onᵹiten hæbbe. a1400–50Wars Alex. 1035 Outhire macches ȝow maynly þerto..Or ȝefes ȝarely vp þe ȝerde & ȝeld me þe cite. 1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 144 Actes lawles to doo without feare, how yeerlie togither they band. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. ii. 216 The Silken Tackle, Swell with the touches of those Flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. 1610― Temp. i. i. 4 Fall too 't, yarely, or we run our selues a ground. 1627J. Smith in J. Taylor (Water P.) Armado A 8, This new Fleete runnes ouer Seas and Lands, And's now so victua'ld, rigd and yarely plyes. 1668Dryden Even. Love v. i. (1671) 77 Come yarely my mates, every man to his share of the burthen. a1681T. Raymond Autobiog. (Camden 1917) 29 In London great out-cryes about this tyme [c 1631] against shom [sic] whoe they called Armynians as if shom of that opinion intended yarely to introduce Poperie. 1812W. Tennant Anster F. iv. ix, Till..The younker Curtius..Down headlong yarely gallop'd, horse and all. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. I. 186 The Count..kept plunging, yarely, through the ranks. [1897Ld. Tennyson Mem. Tennyson II. 133 note, He revived many fine old words which had fallen into disuse: and I heard him regret that he had never employed the word ‘yarely’.] |