homelilyadv.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 382 If..he haue some smale..tokenes with dispocicioun to þe lepre, he is to be warned homelely [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. homely] and priuely þat he stonde in good rewle.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) xvii. 4 He ressawit yaim hamlyly [1487 St. John's Cambr. richt gladly; 1616 Hart tenderly].

a1500 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Trin. Cambr.) (1999) 280 [a1475 Bodl. A house dove drawithe other to him and a-bide stille] homlilie [Bodl. homelye; a1500 Cambr. Gg.1.34 homelelie].

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxv. 7 To talke trewly and homlily.

?1565 A. Hartwell in tr. W. Haddon Sight of Portugall Pearle sig. Ai You..haue so homelily opened your mouthe vnto the Quenes highnes, streyned the aucthoritie of our lawes, & charged our whole realme with a certaine vngodly & lothed newnes.

1650 E. Marbury Comm. Habakkuk (new ed.) (iii. 6) 76 Many bunglers handle the Word of God too homelily, and instead of giving a constant light do only make a blaze.

1687 T. Shadwell tr. Juvenal Tenth Satyr 53 A People who lived plainly, homelily, and virtuously.

1701 New Descr. Holland x. 97 Without any Gilding or Carving..but plainly and homelily painted.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Homelily, rudely, inelegantly.

1837 Monthly Rev. Apr. 555 It has been described in the precious autobiographical fragment..which may be homelily characterized as being Walter Scott all over.

1889 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 5 Oct. 3/2 His name and his form, tottering and as homelily clad as in his native wilds, was familiar to all.

1900 Outing 36 676/2 He is another type of what is homelily called the ‘game hog’.