rawly, adv.
(ˈrɔːlɪ)
[f. raw a. + -ly2. Common c 1570–1670, often in quasi-adjectival use.]
† 1. With to leave: a. In an unfinished state. Obs.
| 1538 Leland Itin. IV. 33 Eiton College, begon to be buildid by Henry the vj. but left very onperfect and rauly. 1580 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 217 Nichomachus left Tindarides rawly, for feare of anger, not for want of Art. 1615 Hieron Wks. I. 599 If I left the matter so rawly, I might fall at vnawares into two extremities. |
† b. At an immature age. Obs. rare—1.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 147 Some swearing, some crying for a Surgean; some vpon their Wiues, left poore behind them;..some vpon their Children rawly left. |
† 2. Ignorantly; without sufficient knowledge or experience. Obs.
| 1565 Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 108 Had you well considered these things, M. Harding, ye would not so rawly haue thus concluded. 1593 R. Harvey Philad. 13 To reject it, as this one Scot hath done very rawly and unadvisedly. 1612 Brinsley Lud. Lit. 309 How many euils doe come vpon the sending of schollars so rawly thither. 1680 Baxter Let. in Answ. Dodwell 97 To tell you the truth, I entered so rawly, that..I remember not that I took that Oath. |
† 3. a. Crudely; imperfectly, in an insufficient or unsatisfactory manner. Obs.
| 1576 Foxe A. & M. 1895/2 The Story is but rawly and imperfectly touched before. 1581 Mulcaster Positions v. (1887) 32 Counterfeat the letter or some letterlike deuise first rawly and rudely. 1634 W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. i. ii, The English comming over so rawly and uncomfortably provided. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 334 Were these Principles which I rawly and briefly touch on here, pursu'd by Learned Men [etc.]. |
† b. Barely, scarcely. Obs. rare.
| 1607 Middleton Michaelmas Term iv. iv. 21 The world is very loath to praise me; 'Tis rawly friends with me. 1651 H. L'Estrange Answ. Mrq. Worcester 65 Amongst the antients there is none at all, or very rawly any mention of Purgatory. |
† c. With difficulty or annoyance. Obs. rare—1.
| 1586 J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 89/1 The archbishop of Dublin rawlie digesting the vicedeputie his long absence. |
4. Immaturely (opposed to ‘ripely’).
| 1875 Browning Aristoph. Apol. 135 He who wrote Erechtheus may be rawly politic, At home where Kleophon is ripe. 1955 E. Blishen Roaring Boys ii. 99 For..two years I had been rawly warring with my classes. 1979 Chatelaine Jan. 64/3 The secret realm in which their love flowered—so rawly, with such unanticipated greed! |
5. So as to be bare or exposed.
| 1924 ‘L. Malet’ Dogs of Want ix. 270 Every nerve of his body seeming rawly outside his skin instead of normally and decently covered by it. |