† troubly, a. Obs.
Forms: 4 trubli, -byly, 4–5 troubli, trobli, -bly, trublee, 4–6 trowbly, trubly, 4–7 troubly, 5 trow-, trobely.
[f. trouble n. + -y1 or -ly1: cf. cloudy, muddy.]
1. = trouble a. 1.
| c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 14 Þese fisheris of God shulden waishe þere nettis in þis ryuer, for Cristis prechours shulden..not medle wiþ mannis lawe, þat is trobly water. c 1400 Trublee [see trouble a. 1]. 1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 229 Tho that bene Pale and trowbely y-colurid. 1450–80 tr. Secreta Secret. xlv. 28 The eyre wexith trobely. c 1530 Judic. Urines ii. i. 11 b, Rubeus & subrubeus color with a thycke and a trowbly bodye, sheweth grete dysturblynge of the humours. Ibid. vii. 28 Trubly. 1605 Stow Annals 707 When it betokeneth battaile, [it] runneth foule, and troubly water; and when it betokeneth dearth or pestilence, it runneth cleare [cf. trouble a. 1, quot. 1482]. |
2. = trouble a. 2.
| c 1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 31 Þe trubylyere þat þou hase bene owtwarde with actyfe werkes, the mare brynnande desyre þou sall hafe to Godd. c 1412 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2 The restles bisynesse Which that this troubly world hath ay on honde. 1421 ― Compl. 302 This troubly lyfe hathe all to longe enduryd. 14.. in Hist. Coll. Citizen Lond. (Camden) 188 He..passyde owte of thys wrecchyde and false trobely worlde. |
3. = trouble a. 3.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxii. (Bodl. MS.), Whanne þe see is aboue troublye and to hiȝe bi windes and stormes. ? c 1400 Lydg. æsop's Fab. ii. 44 Þou..Sekest occasion by trobly violence Ayenst me. 1430–40 ― Bochas ix. xxiii. (MS. Bodl. 263) lf. 427/2 Who may the furies of fortune appese Hir troubli wawes to make hem calm and pleyne? 1513 Douglas æneis iv. v. 133 He chasis the windis away, And trubly cluddis dividis in a thraw. |
Hence † ˈtroubliness, troubled or disturbed condition; turbidity.
| c 1530 Judic. Urines ii. iii. 18 Vryne..with a trublynes..sheweth a wombe fluxe. |