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▪ I. † ˈsorrily, a. Obs.—1 In 3 sorilich. [f. sorry a. + -ly1.] Sorrowful, sad.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 185 Sorehful is ure hider cume, and sorilich ure henen sið. ▪ II. sorrily, adv.|ˈsɒrɪlɪ| Forms: α. 2–3 sari-, 3 særiliche, 4 sarili, 4–5 -ly. β. 2, 4 soriliche, 5 soryly, 5–7 sorily, 7– sorrily. [f. sorry a. + -ly2. Cf. MHG. sêrichliken.] †1. In a sorrowful manner; sadly, sorrowfully. Obs. αc1175Lamb. Hom. 39 Þu scalt bi-wepen þine sunne..and ȝeoten þine teres swiðe sariliche. c1205Lay. 13626 Swiðe he gon to wepen & særiliche siken. c1230Hali Meid. 5 Nis ha þenne sariliche..akast, & in-to þewdom idrahen. a1300Cursor M. 14252 To fete sco fele him sarili. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 1791 He luked up ful sarily. βc1175in Fragm. ælfric's Gloss., etc. (1838) 6 Ȝet sæiþ þeo sowle soriliche to þen licame [etc.]. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. iii. (Skeat) l. 60 [To] blobere and wepe til hem list stint, and sorily her mishap complayne. c1400Rowland & O. 459 And all þe lethirs þat þare ware Þay assembled soryly. c1450Lovelich Merlin 2460 Goth forth,..and axeth the modyr the cause why, why that hire husbond wepeth so soryly. 1606J. Carpenter Solomon's Solace i. 6 He..mingled his drinke with his teares,..sighed sorily, and lamented wofully. †2. So as to cause sorrow; grievously; lamentably, pitiably. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 224 Swuðe ofte þer biuoren he hefde iseid him euer soð, uorte biswiken him soriliche on ende. c1330Arth. & Merl. 4810 (Kölbing), What Sarrazin so he mett, Wel soriliche he hem grett. c1400Destr. Troy 754 Þai solast hom samyn..With venus werkes..Þat sorily dessauis, & men to sorow bringes. c1440Jacob's Well 116 Ȝe be soryly deed wyth þe poysoun of þe feend. 3. In a poor, wretched, or deplorable manner; miserably, wretchedly.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 73 Thy pipe, O Pan, shall helpe, though I sing sorily. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 335 All his possession was but a little farme in the countrie sorily built. a1625Fletcher Nice Valour ii. i, Yet goodness, whose inclosure is but flesh, Holds out oft times but sorrily. 1688Bunyan Jerus. Sinner Saved (1886) 46 Churches would do but sorrily, if Christ Jesus did not put such converts among them. 1709J. Johnson Clergym. Vade M. ii. p. xlvi, 'Tis so sorrily related, and by one who lived so many hundred years after. 1768Johnson Lett. (1788) I. 10 You serve me very sorrily. 1815Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) III. xi. 360 The Brunswickers and Hanoverians behaved very well; the Belgians but sorrily enough. 1856Doran Knights & their Days xvi. 243 Rough games, that suited but sorrily with their calling. 1875Kinglake Crimea (1877) VI. xi. 445 Thus sorrily lagged the males in their undesigned trial of speed. Comb.1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 607 In the sorrily-printed pages of the original London Post. |