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speedily, adv.|ˈspiːdɪlɪ|
Forms: 4 spedili, 4–6 spedily, 6 spedyly, speadilie, Sc. spedalie, 6–7 speedilie, 6– speedily.
[f. speedy a. Cf. OE. ᵹespédiᵹlíce prosperously. Before the 17th cent. less usual than spedely speedly adv.]
In a speedy manner; with speed or celerity; quickly.
13..Cursor M. 4048 (Gött.), Þat loueword had sua spedili spredd. c1400Rule St. Benet (Prose) 1 Gladly take and spedily fulfil þe warnyng of þe meke fadir. a1425Cursor M. 19214 (Trin.), Spedily [earlier MSS. sped(e)li] spelled þei goddes word. a1550Freiris Berwick 217 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 292 Syn to hir madin spedyly scho spak. 1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 16 The seedes sowen in due chosen time..doth speediliest breake forth and shoote vp. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. ii. 80 You Iustices, that these our neather crimes So speedily can venge. 1659in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 97 Itt being high tyme..speedily to looke out for a place for him. a1700in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. IX. 346 To the end she may the speedierly Arrive to Inioy the company of y⊇ Blessed. 1749Naval Chron. III. 93 An opportunity of closing the Line speedilyer. 1779Mirror No. 65, The marriage was speedily concluded. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 28 An example that was speedily followed by that of Dodonæus. 1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. x. 117 A short altercation..ended speedily in high words on both sides. |