▪ I. † ˈwoodly, a. Obs. rare.
[OE. wódlic: see wood a. and -ly1.]
Mad, frantic, furious.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 182 Sa eadiᵹa Benedictus..manode þone reðan ehtere þæt he ðære wodlican reðnysse ᵹeswice. c 1422 Hoccleve Learn to Die 700 The fyry flaumbes..In which the soules brenne in woodly wyse. 1513 Bradshaw St. Werburge ii. 789 Roryng and yellyng his outragious trespase, [he] Tore his tonge a-sonder in wodely violence. |
▪ II. ˈwoodly, adv. Obs. or dial.
Forms: see wood a.
[OE. wódl{iacu}ce: see wood a. and -ly2.]
Madly, ferociously, furiously, wildly, passionately.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 230 Hi wæron..mid deofle afyllede, ðaða hi swa wodlice to ðam welwillendan Hælende spræcon. c 1000 tr. Basil's Admon. vi. (Norman 1849) 46 Ðam wulfe ᵹelic ðe wodlice abiteð ða..sceap. c 1000 in Assmann Hom. (1889) 6/145 Þam unðeawfæstum, ðe wodlice drincað and heora ᵹewitt amyrrað. c 1205 Lay. 3201 He mochul a þa wodeloker wilnede þeos mæidenes. c 1330 Arth. & Merl. 9426 King Margaras..Ban asailed wodeliche. c 1350 Will. Palerne 550 Þat i wrouȝt so wodly & wold to him speke. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 1752 Lucrece, Desyr That in his herte brende as any fer So wodly that his wit is al forgetyn. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 2827 Wyes..appone wyght horsez, Walopande wodely. c 1400 Destr. Troy 3694 The wyndes full wodely wackont anon. a 1500 Hist. K. Boccus & Sydracke (? 1510) P iv b, Yf he loue one wodly. 1556 Olde Antichrist 163 Antichrist layeth about him so woodly. 1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) Anagr. & Sonn. Wks. ii. 251/1 He rose..And frantickly ran woodly through the wood. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. v. iii, They skelpit me when woodly fleid. |