▪ I. gladly, a. Obs. exc. arch.
(ˈglædlɪ)
[f. glad n.1 + -ly1.]
† a. Bright, beautiful, splendid, precious (obs.). b. Glad, joyous, joyful.
| a. a 1000 Widsith 66 (Gr.) Me þær Guðhere forᵹeaf glæd⁓licne maþþum songes to leane. |
| b. c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxxxii. 1 Efne hu glædlic bið and god swylce [L. quam bonum et quam jucundum] þætte broður on an beᵹen hicgen. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. 36 Heo glystnede ase gold when hit glemede, Nes ner gome so gladly on gere. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 115 Þe ilondes of þe world, þat beeþ alwey gladliche for to hire new þinges. 1842 Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 132, I trust that ‘the burden and heat of the day’ will be gladlier to us. 1864 ― Lect. Daniel vi. 306 At the Feast of Tabernacles..when hearts would be gladliest. |
▪ II. gladly, adv.
(ˈglædlɪ)
Forms: 1 glædl{iacu}ce, 3 glad(d)like, gladluche, -liȝ, -li(e, 3–4 gledliche, 3–5 gladliche, (4 -lik, -lygh), 5 gladdely, 5–6 Sc. glaidlie, 6 gladlye, 3– gladly. Comp. 3 gledluker, gladliker, 4 gladloker, -laker, -liere, 5–6 gladlyer, (5 gladlyur), 6– gladlier. Sup. 4 gladlyest, 6– gladliest. (Now commonly more, most gladly.)
[f. glad a. + -ly2.]
1. In a glad fashion; with gladness or joy. Also, in weaker sense, willingly, with alacrity, esp. in phr. I (you, he, etc.) would gladly (do something).
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. vii. (1890) 116 He glædlice all eorðlic þing wæs oferhleapende. a 1100 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1014 Ða com æðelred cyning..ham to his aᵹenre ðeode, & he glædlice fram heom eallum onfangen wæs. c 1200 Ormin 12384 Þeȝȝ..didenn gladdliȝ þatt he badd Onnȝæn Drihhtiness wille. a 1225 Ancr. R. 188 Goð nu þeonne gledluker..touward þe muchele feste of heouene. c 1300 Havelok 906 Gladlike wile ich feden þe. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xviii. 195 Thei drynken gladlyest mannes Blood. c 1460 Towneley Myst. viii. 144 Gladly thay Wold me greyf, if I sych bodworde broght. 1552 Bk. Com. Prayer, Ordering Deacons, Will you doe this gladly and willingly? 1591 Spenser M. Hubberd 289 Gladliest I of your fleecie sheepe..would take on me the keep. 1617 Moryson Itin. i. 237 They would gladly have taken this occasion to extort much money from the Frires. 1667 Milton P.L. vi. 731 Scepter and Power, thy giving, I assume, And gladlier shall resign. 1709 Berkeley Theory Vision §112, I should gladly be informed whether it be not true. 1831 Lamb Elia ii. To Shade Elliston, Or art thou enacting Rover (as we would gladlier think) by wandering Elysian streams? 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 80, I applaud your purpose, and will gladly assist you. |
† b. do gladly: a polite phrase used when offering food to a person. Obs.
| 15.. Friar & Boy 75 in Ritson Anc. Pop. P. 38 The boye drewe forth suche as he had, And sayd, do gladly. |
† 2. a. Aptly, with evident reason. b. to do or be{ddd}gladly: to be accustomed or ‘apt’ to. (Cf. Gr. ϕιλεῖν to love, to be accustomed.) Obs.
| c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 770 Thisbe, And this was gladly in the eue tyde Or wondyr erly, lest men it espiede. c 1386 ― Pars. T. ¶813 Auowtrie is set gladly in the ten comandementz bitwixe thefte and manslaughter, for it is the grettest thefte that may be. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xvii. (Tollem. MS.), A scorpion is a beste þat styngeþ gladly with þe tayle. 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas i. ix. (1544) 18 b, The wrong partie gladly hath a fall. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 140/2 Where as ben corners there is gladly filth. |