OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxii. 355 Ðas fiftig daga fram þam easterlican dæge [a1225 Lamb. 487 fram þan esterliche deie] sind ealle gehalgode to anre mærsunge.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) ii. 42 His magas ferdon ælce gere to Hierusalem on easterdæges freolstide &, þa he wæs twelf wintre, hy foron to Hierusalem to þan easterlican freolse æfter hyra gewunan [L. secundum consuetudinem diei festi].

OE Ælfric 2nd Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 196 We healdað nu æfter þæs hælendes æriste ðone sunnandæg freolice, forðonðe he of deaðe aras on ðam easterlican sunnandæge.

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 135 The contynewal mynde of mary..mote profyt vnto vs alwayes [L. paschalia solempria], but pryncipally amongest these esternly solempnytyes, of thy sonne.

c1590 in Remains Hist. & Lit. Lancaster & Chester (1875) 8 Notoriowse disorders in the Esterly Communion.

1693 S. Johnson Ess. conc. Parl. iv. 22 We find indeed the Saxon Kings..Decreeing with their Wites,..some at the Holy Easterly Tide, as King Edmund.

OE Hymns (Julius A.vi) xxi. 4 in H. Gneuss Hymnar u. Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter (1968) 288 O tu lux eoy syderis, inlumina nos tuo sereno vultu : eala þu leoht easterlices [OE Vesp. D.xii easternes] tungles onliht us mid þinum smyltum andwlitam.

1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Orientale, easterlie.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 241^v The line shulde bee drawen from the Ilande of Bonauista, or the Iland cauled de la Sal, which are the most Easterly Ilandes from Cabouerde.

1603 A. Hartwell tr. L. Soranzo Ottoman iii. viii. 71 From the Caspian Sea, and the riuer Araxis, and the other more Easterly confines of the Kingdome of Persia.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. iii. 16 Easterly Towns..are more wholesome than the westerly.

1753 T. Percival in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 218 Condate being placed in the road to Mediolanum shews it to be easterly of Chester.

1798 H. Beeke Let. to County Member 55 One says we ought to shape an easterly, another a westerly course.

1851 W. Burke Mineral Springs of Virginia xvii. 239 The hot pool, or boiler, as it is usually termed,..is the most easterly in the range.

1869 E. Dunkin Midnight Sky 43 The diagram..contains only a few stars in the most easterly part of this constellation.

1900 S. J. Weyman Story Francis Cludde (new ed.) iii. 24 I kept a more easterly course.

1936 J. Schafer Social Hist. Amer. Agric. i. 32 Farm areas distinctly larger than settlers had secured in more easterly localities.

1976 J. D. North Richard of Wallingford III. App. xxii. 147 The equator meets the horizon in the easterly point E.

1997 B. McCrea et al. S. Afr.: Rough Guide 89 First and oldest of the suburbs as you take an easterly exit from town is Woodstock.

1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie 2 Iewes, Turkes, Grekes, Moores and other easterly merchauntes.

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 399 Then kepe by itself an unce of easterly saffron well beaten.

1588 E. Aggas tr. F. de La Noue Politicke & Mil. Disc. xviii. 214 The wise Captaine..hauing disgesed the first bitternesse thereof, must seeke to vse the rest as the expulsiue vertue of some Easterly roote.

1696 tr. P.-D. Huet Treat. of Situation Paradise iii. 28 Their [sc. the Chaldaeans] Book concerning Husbandry, so often quoted by Rabbi Maimonides, was called the Easterly Book.

1861 A. A. Paton Res. Danube & Adriatic II. iii. iv. 19 Everything had a wilder and more easterly appearance than what one sees on the Danube.

1912 S. M. C. Grant Samphire 161 The wind..coughed and blew in a very rude and easterly manner at the Sun.

1994 D. Metcalf Thrymsas & Sceattas in Ashmolean Museum 416 The only fault is that the bird's body and tail are in the more easterly style.

1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Funke Actes & Hist. Worlde 1532–50 in tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. ccxxiiii The same winde..chaunged sodaynely into a ful easterly winde.

1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth vi. 10 The Easterly windes, are for the more parte hoter, than the Westerly.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. iv. 131 Within the Tropickes continually raine Easterly windes.

1698 J. Flavel Navigation Spiritualiz'd xvii. 64 One puff of wind blows it away, one churlish easterly blast shrivels it up.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 110 By some easterly gusts the ship was cast away near Berwick.

1772 Dk. Richmond Let. 2 Dec. in E. Burke Corr. (1960) II. 391 Going to Uppark in this easterly wind has made me quite ill.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 380 The strong Easterly breeze..had stripped all the surviving frames..of clapboard and roof.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 240 These easterly rains..come wi' might enough to squail a man into his grave.

1930 J. Masefield Wanderer of Liverpool 67 It was fine clear easterly weather with a day-old moon.

1962 New Shetlander No. 63. 13 A sneeslin o easterly rain..made da park we were wirkin in an uncomfortable spot.

2007 Climber Apr. 3/2 Crossing the plateau in the strengthening easterly gale and wind-driven snow was hellish.

1837 Court Mag. 11 33/1 The long term of snow and bleak easterlies that were bequeathed us by the old year.

1866 A. J. T. Norris Treat. on Meteorol. 81 Divide the Winds into Three Classes, and call them ‘Moist Westerlies’, ‘Dry Westerlies’, & ‘Cold Easterlies’.

1901 F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 265 The brave west wind..being succeeded by baffling easterlies.

1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. xi. 416 The English often had to wait for weeks for a favouring easterly.

2003 Trail Nov. 48/3 On Irish high ground there are few enough..raw and icy English easterlies or dank and chilly Welsh glooms.

1466 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 215/1 Fra the said southeste furde strikand north and estirly to the Harper-akirhade.

1572 T. Twyne tr. Dionysius Periegetes Surueye World sig. Dviii^v The parte that lyeth easterly, surmounteth the other in multitude.

1605 T. Smith Voiage Rushia sig. C That night the winde seased, so as wee must bend our course Easterlie.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 136 The same Eclipse..is seen to them that live more Easterly.

1797 in T. Greenleaf Laws State N.Y. III. 420 All that part of the town of Sangerfield lying easterly of the division line.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. iii. 122 To get into the little valley of Glendearg he was to proceed easterly.

1881 D. Gilmour Gordon's Loan 11 Gordon's Lone..runs easterly with the same gentle curve.

1941 Geogr. Jrnl. 97 372 The coastline swings round to face more easterly.

2005 D. L. Van Loan Blue Skies & Tail Winds xxxvii. 154 Next we turned easterly as I started reconfiguring my jet for another approach.

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 353 Wee had the wynde more easterly to the southwarde then before.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 20 Bee the windes neuer so easterly aduerse.

a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 77 During this time the wind stood most easterly.

1691 London Gaz. 2640/3 It blew hard Easterly.

1739 C. Leslie New & Exact Acct. Jamaica i. 10 Near the Coast of Guiney, the Wind always sets in upon the land, blowing westerly instead of easterly.

1842 J. Wilson Voy. Scotl. II. iv. 185 The wind had been blowing easterly and in shore for a day or two.

1854 C. Hosmer & S. Mendell Notes Trav. & Life xv. 83 As if in a chase before a strong and steady wind that blew easterly.

1907 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 31 Oct. 4/5 Can you tell us whether..the wind was blowing westerly or easterly?

1952 H. E. Bates Country of White Clover iii. 48 With the wind blowing easterly, away from the road, we set fire to the grass.

2008 M. Alemi Interruptions xvi. 51 Hot gusts blew easterly, but did not last long.