▪ I. southernly, a.
(ˈsʌðənlɪ)
[f. southern a. + -ly1.]
= southerly a.
| 1594 Blundevil Exerc. iii. ii. viii. (1597) 186 If the declination..be Southernly. 1620 E. Blount Horæ Subs. 136 More Sowthernly people..vpon extraordinarie businesses driuen to the towne. 1655 Culpepper, etc. Riverius ix. lxxviii. 265 The External Causes, are..Southernly weather, or infectious Air. 1658 W. Burton Comment. Itin. Antoninus 218 The Town from the Southernly situation is at this day Southanton. 1803 Visct. Strangford Poems of Camoens (1810) 68 Thy branches still wave to the southernly sigh. 1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. xiii. (1872) VIII. 48 Wind a mere lull, but southernly if any. |
Hence ˈsouthernliness, the ‘state of being southernly’ (Ogilvie, 1850).
▪ II. † ˈsouthernly, adv. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
= southerly adv.
| 1594 Blundevil Exerc. vi. xxx. (1597) 310 Euery degree of any of the southerne signes riseth Southernly. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 60 These Northernely are seene, which they attribute to the liuing: those Southernely are hidden. 1636 H. B[lount] Voy. Levant 72 Winds which in those parts..in Summer, sit Northernly, and in Winter Southernly. 1658 W. Burton Comment. Itin. Antoninus 120 The Military Port way hence tending somewhat more Southernly. |