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slowly, adv.|ˈsləʊlɪ|
Forms: α. (latterly north. and Sc.) 1 slawlice, slaulice, -lece, 2 slawliche; 4–5, 9 slawly, 6 slawlie, slaulie. β. 4–5 slowliche, 5 -lich; 4–5 slowli, 5 slouly, 5–6 slowely, 7 slowlye, 6– slowly.
[f. slow a. + -ly2. Cf. MDu. sleulijch, ON. slǽ-, sljá-, sljóliga (MSw. sliolica).]
†1. In a remiss or negligent manner; sluggishly; slackly. Obs.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxviii. 190 Ðæt hie to slawlice ðara ne ᵹiemen þe him befæste sien. a950in Anglia X. 143 Ne dyde he þat naht slaulice ac he hine eallum middan ᵹeardas ehtum onᵹerede. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 11 Ðe þridde is þat man..slawliche ariseð and late to chireche goð. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 314 Hely þe heyȝ prest was dampned, for he reproued hise sones but to softliche & slowliche. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 155 b, Perfeccyon, whiche they slowly & weykly or fayntly desyre. 1563Winȝet tr. Vincent. Lirinensis xxviii. Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 60 That afore wes precheit slawlie, the samin thing eftir to be precheit mair feruentlie.
2. Not quickly, rapidly, or hastily:
a. Of processes, operations, etc.
c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3193 Þai brin mar slawly als hay brynnes. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxiii. (Bodl. MS.), Moche ayer is slowlich ymeued. 1435Misyn Fire of Love 81 Now qwhykliar, now slawlyer, it warmes. 1528Paynell Salerne's Regiment G iv, The grape that hath the thynnest huske descendeth sonest from y⊇ stomake: and the thycker huske the slowelyer. 1595Spenser Epithalamion 280 How slowly do the houres theyr numbers spend? How slowly does sad Time his feathers moue? 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Wars vi. 12 The businesse with the Prince of Orange went slowlyer on. 1688Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 237 Violent Courses..will Slowly and meanly Commend y⊇ policy of their Authors. 1761Gray Odin 26 From out the hollow ground Slowly breath'd a sullen sound. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 280 If it volatilizes..slowly, its evaporation is protracted. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xviii. 326 Crevasses, on their first formation, are..narrow rents, which widen very slowly.
b. Of movement, advance, etc.
1382Wyclif Acts xxvii. 7 Whanne many dayes we seiliden slowli. 1587A. Fleming Contin. Holinshed III. 982/1 The armie went on, but so much the slowlier, bicause the waie was somewhat narrow. 1628Hobbes Thucydides (1822) 78 They marched the slowlier for the rain which had fallen the same night. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 541 The setting Sun Slowly descended. 1712Spect. No. 316 ⁋4 Indolence is a Stream which flows slowly on. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xlviii, Presently he sees him come slowly down the avenue. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iv. v, They ride slowly Eastward. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1877) II. xix. 306 The English war-fleet..moved slowly out of the bay.
c. Of personal actions.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cli. 136. I..aroos ayen. Slowliche it was: for j was feeble. c1440Jacob's Well 126 Þe more þat god smyteth hem.., þe slawlyere [they] gon to goddys seruyse. 1573J. Tyrie Refutation, etc. (S.T.S.) 8 Quhou slaulie he ansueris thairto. 1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 269, I coniure thee but slowly: run more fast. 1802Wordsw. Resolution & Indep. 86 A gentle answer did the old Man make, In courteous speech which forth he slowly drew. 1818Shelley Rosalind 1171 Slowly now he turned to me.
3. Comb.
a. With ppl. adjs., as slowly-acting, slowly-churning, slowly-dripping, etc.
c1742Gray Ignorance 3 Rushy Camus' slowly-winding flood. 1744Mason Musæus Poems (1764) 10 All these slowly dripping rills, That tinkling wander o'er the pebbled floor. 1829Chapters Phys. Sci. 181 The meandering brook, or the slowly-flowing river. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. viii. 59 We can prove the effects to be due to slowly-acting causes. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xv, The slowly-churning chances of his mind. 1921D. H. Lawrence Tortoises 33 That mud-hovel of his slowly-rambling spouse. 1926J. S. Huxley Essays in Pop. Science 195 They [sc. frogs in Arctic zones] would be so slowly-working that their growth would be prolonged over an uneconomic number of seasons. 1931R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 47 A blush began to dawn As rosy as a slowly-cooking prawn. 1937Discovery July 196/1 Long strings of slowly-moving camels. 1951S. Spender tr. Rilke's Life of Virgin Mary 15 And if the gleam from distant flambeaux plays On slowly-nearing ceremonial dresses. 1965Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. I. viii. 292 Now in many of these inter-combinations dA/dx is a slowly-varying function, sometimes over relatively small ranges but often over very wide ranges of composition. 1967Oceanography & Marine Biol. V. 468 On soft substrata two biocoenoses may be recognized, namely, one on beaches..with quickly-drying wracks and a second where slowly-drying wracks are present.
b. Misc., as slowly-dittied, slowly-painful, slowly successive.
1744Mason Musæus Poems (1764) 3 Till with harmonious teen Ye sooth his shade, and slowly-dittied air. 1842Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 56 More slowly-painful to subdue this home Of sin. 1845Parnell Chem. Anal. 278 So as to allow the gas to escape in slowly successive bubbles. |