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▪ I. † beˈhovely, a. Obs. exc. arch.
[OE. behóflíc, f. behóf behoof + -líc: see -ly1.]
Of use; useful, profitable; needful, necessary. Const. to, orig. dat.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xi. 3 [The ass] Drihtne behoflic is. c1250Gen. & Ex. 4108 Alswilc als hem bi-hu[f]lik bee. 1330R. Brunne Chron. Pref. 190 If it be a behouely þing at nede. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋312 Now it is bihovely thing to telle whiche ben dedly synnes. 1393Gower Conf. II. 186 All was behovely to the man. 1942T. S. Eliot Little Gidding iii. 13 Sin is Behovely, but All shall be well.
▪ II. † beˈhovely, adv. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ly2: OE. *behóflíce.]
Usefully, needfully, necessarily.
c1430Life St. Kath. (Gibbs MS.) 90 Syth þou behouely sturest my counsayl. |