† yeply, adv. Obs.
[OE. ᵹéapl{iacu}ce: see yepe a. and -ly2.]
1. Cunningly, craftily; shrewdly, sagaciously.
| a 900 Kent. Gl. xxi, Procaciter, ᵹeaplice. c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 80 Þa betealde he [sc. Herod] hine swiðe ᵹeaplice, swa swa he wæs snotorwyrde. c 1055 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 313 Hiᵹ eac tosceadað þæt stæfᵹefeᵹ on þrym wisan ᵹeaplice swyðe. |
2. Quickly, briskly; promptly, without delay.
| 13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1981 Fele þryuande þonkkez he þrat hom to haue, & þay ȝelden hym aȝayn ȝeply þat ilk. c 1350 Will. Palerne 3346 [He] ȝerne opened þe ȝates & ȝepli out rides. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xvii. 328 Then he ȝerneþ in-to þouht and ȝepliche he secheþ Pruyde. c 1400 Destr. Troy 6081 For to ȝarke vp the ȝate, he ȝepely comaund. c 1430 Pistill of Susan 118 (Cott. MS.) Thus þe ȝonge ȝepply ȝede in here ȝerde. |