† all-utterly, adv. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 al vtterly, alouterly, 5–6 aluterlie, 5–7 alluterlie, -ly.
[See all C 6, and utterly. After Wyclif and Chaucer, apparently retained only by Scottish writers.]
Wholly, entirely, completely; wholly and utterly, absolutely.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. (1868) 109 Þei ne were nat alouterly vnknowen to me. c 1400 Apol. Loll. 54, I a cord in no þing wiþ him, but al vtterly we are contrari. a 1423 James I King's Q. iv. vi, Gif thy lufe be set alluterly Of nyce lust. 1513 Douglas æneis iv. vi. 99 Aluterlie dissauit or dissolate. 1582–8 Hist. James VI (1804) 204 This was alluterly refuisit be the capitane. 1651 Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 387 To root out, destroy, alluterlie subvert all monuments of idolatrie. |