▪ I. † ˈredly, a. Obs. rare—1.
[app. f. red a. + -ly1, but perh. a misprint for redy.]
Red, reddish.
| 1482 Bk. St. Albans, Her. A iij b, The .vi. stone is calde a Rudy a [1486 ruby or] redly stone, gowlys it is calde in armys. |
▪ II. ˈredly, adv.1
[f. red a. + -ly2.]
a. In a red manner, with a red appearance or colour.
| 1611 Cotgr., Rougement, redly. 1814 Byron Lara ii. xiv, Blood is mingled with the dashing stream, Which runs all redly till the morning beam. 1843 Borrow Bible in Spain (ed. 2) III. xvii. 333 The blaze was redly reflected in the waters of the strait. 1883 Stevenson Treas. Isl. i. iv, A full moon peered redly through the upper edges of the fog. |
b. Comb., as redly-lipped, redly-squirting adjs.
| 1910 J. Masefield Ballads & Poems 91 Maids that were redly-lipped and comely-skinned. 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 90 Its steel-shot bulk with redly-squirting Nose and lolling tongue. |
▪ III. † ˈredly, adv.2 Obs.
Forms: 1 rǽdl{iacu}ce, 3 readliche, 4 redlych, compar. reedloker; 4 redli, 4–5 reddely, 4–6 redly, (6 readly).
[OE. rǽdl{iacu}ce, f. rǽdl{iacu}c adj.: see rede n.1 and -ly2, and cf. ON. ráðliga. See also redely and redily.]
Prudently, carefully, distinctly, clearly, correctly, certainly.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xviii. 131 Ðæt he meahte ðæt folc ðy wislicor & ðy rædlicor læran. c 1000 in Assmann Homilies etc. (1889) xviii. 195 Deofol..hine oft rædlice mid mæniᵹ-fealdum costningum costnode. a 1250 Owl & Night. 1279 Nu thu miȝt wite readliche, That eavere thu spekest gideliche. c 1350 Will. Palerne 2143 Þe real emperour of rome þanne redli him thonked. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 145 Þe men of þat lond beeþ rediloker [v.r. reedloker] i-cleped Gothy þan Gogi. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. ii. vi. 499 For redly wilys in women Sonnar apperis þan in men. 1448 Paston Lett. I. 74 As he stombled, on of Harcourts men smot hym in the bak with a knyfe; men wotte not ho hyt was reddely. 1513 Douglas æneis vi. iii. 79 He prentit baith his futsteppis in the erd, Behaldand redly quhat singnis thai schaw. |
▪ IV. redly, -lyd
varr. of radly, ridled Obs.