speedily, adv.
(ˈspiːdɪlɪ)
Forms: 4 spedili, 4–6 spedily, 6 spedyly, speadilie, Sc. spedalie, 6–7 speedilie, 6– speedily.
[f. speedy a. Cf. OE. ᵹespédiᵹl{iacu}ce prosperously. Before the 17th cent. less usual than spedely speedly adv.]
In a speedy manner; with speed or celerity; quickly.
| 13.. Cursor M. 4048 (Gött.), Þat loueword had sua spedili spredd. c 1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) 1 Gladly take and spedily fulfil þe warnyng of þe meke fadir. a 1425 Cursor M. 19214 (Trin.), Spedily [earlier MSS. sped(e)li] spelled þei goddes word. ? a 1550 Freiris Berwick 217 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 292 Syn to hir madin spedyly scho spak. 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 16 The seedes sowen in due chosen time..doth speediliest breake forth and shoote vp. 1605 Shakes. Lear iv. ii. 80 You Iustices, that these our neather crimes So speedily can venge. 1659 in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 97 Itt being high tyme..speedily to looke out for a place for him. a 1700 in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. IX. 346 To the end she may the speedierly Arrive to Inioy the company of y⊇ Blessed. 1749 Naval Chron. III. 93 An opportunity of closing the Line speedilyer. 1779 Mirror No. 65, The marriage was speedily concluded. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lex. 28 An example that was speedily followed by that of Dodonæus. 1877 Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. x. 117 A short altercation..ended speedily in high words on both sides. |