▪ I. † ˈwarely, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 wærlic, 5 warli, waarly, 4–5 warly.
[OE. wærlic, f. wær ware n.1: see -ly1. Cf. ON. varligr.]
Of a person, his actions, etc.: Cautious, circumspect, prudent.
| a 900 Cynewulf Elene 544 (Gr.) Wisdomes beðearf, worda wærlicra, & witan snyttro, se ðære æðelan sceal and wyrde aᵹifan. a 1000 Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 201/40 Cauta, wærlic, sollicita. c 1000 Laws of æthelred vi. xxxiii. (Lieberm.), Wærlic bið, þæt man æᵹhwilce ᵹeare sona æfter eastron yrdscipa ᵹearwiᵹe. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 242 For knowynge of perels makiþ men warlyer to flee hem. c 1400 Destr. Troy 649, I wull send to you sone by a sure maydon: Bes wakond and warly. c 1400 Rule St. Benet (Verse) 453 Bot first hir-self,..Sal councel þam,..Bi wordes warli anes or twis. 1491 Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 178/2 Men ought to thynke dyscretly and by waarly delyberacyon; yf a thynge is lawfull to be doon. |
▪ II. † ˈwarely, adv. Obs.
Forms: 1 wærl{iacu}ce, 3 wearliche, 3–4 warliche, warli, (3 warlyche), 4–6 warly, Sc. varly, 4 waarly, (5 waarli, werly), 5–6 Sc. warlie, 6 warelye, 5–6 warely.
[OE. wærl{iacu}ce, f. wær ware a.: see -ly2.]
Watchfully, cautiously, circumspectly; prudently. Cf. warily adv.
| c 897 ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxviii. 190 Forðæm him is swiðe micel ðearf ðæt he swæ micle wærlicor [L. tanto cautius] hiene healde wið scylda. c 1000 ælfric Jos. ii. 16 Farað eow nu wærlice and ᵹewendað to muntum. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 199 Bute we þe warluker us bureȝen. c 1205 Lay. 12277 Ah ælfwald & his broðer al heo þuhten oðer heo uerden swiðe warliche. Ibid. 12300 Þa cheorles wenden to þan wuden & warliche heom hudden. a 1225 Ancr. R. 198 Goð, þauh, ful warliche: vor iðisse wildernesse beoð monie vuele bestes. a 1240 Sawles Warde in O.E. Hom. I. 245 We ahen wearliche to biwiten us seoluen wið þe unwiht of helle ant his wrenches. 1388 Wyclif 1 Sam. xviii. 14 And Dauid dide warli [1382 wiseli, Vulg. prudenter] in alle hise weies. a 1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 12 Putte it hotte vppon and bynde it warly þat it fal not away. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warely, or slyly, caute. c 1449 Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 194 The feendis wijlis and deceitis ben forto be waarli considerid and forto be smertli fled. 1540 Palsgr. Acolastus iv. iii. T j b, He that ones falleth into the dytche, wyll after loke better or warelyer or he lepe. 1548–9 Book Com. Prayer, Offices 31 And maye walke more warely in these daungerous dayes. 1574 Whitgift Def. Aunsw. ii. 100 He speaketh also of Ceremonies and traditions, as moderately, as diuinely, and as warely as any man dothe. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 36 They..bound him hand and foote with yron chains. And with continuall watch did warely keepe. 1594 Plat Jewel-ho. iii. 34 So as the same bee warely distilled with a trew diuision of the partes. 1908 Hardy Dynasts iii. iii. iii, He warely closes up his remnant to the walls. |