† unˈwarely, adv. Obs.
[OE. unwærl{iacu}ce (un-1 11), = ON. {uacu}varliga (MSw. ovarlika, -ligha, MDa. uvarlige).]
1. Incautiously; without taking heed.
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. iv. x. §9 Him com onᵹen Hanno se cyning unwærlice, & þær ofslaᵹen wearð. 971 Blickl. Hom. 57 Swa we þonne þa gastlican lare unwærlice ne sceolan anforlætan. c 1100 O.E. Chron. (MS. D) an. 1068, æfter þisum coman Haroldes sunas..into Taw-muðan, & þær unwærlice up-eodon. a 1300 Cursor M. 8894 Bot vn⁓warli sco sett hir don Apon þis ilk tre wit chance. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xiii. (Bodl. MS.), Vnwarliche he falleþ into a candel oþur into fuyre and..brenneþ hym selfe. a 1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 8 Discouer neuer the leche vnwarly the counsellez of his pacientez. c 1480 Henryson Fables, Cock & Fox 81 (Bann. MS.), Wn⁓warlye winkand, [the cock] walkit vp and doun, And syne to chant and craw he maid him boun. 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 428 The soldiours of the garrison chaunced than to be some what vnwarely without the gates. 1592 Lyly Gallathea i. iii. 20, I shall..vnwarelie blabbe out something by blushing at euery thing. |
2. Without warning; unexpectedly.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 191 A wiche wise he hem wile bisette þanne þe hem unwarliche his dintes giueð. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. met. i. (1868) 4 For elde is comen vnwarly vpon me. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 252 So mai we knowe bothe tuo Unwarli what oure wyves do. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 2232 But vp-on hym, vnwarly, or he wende, Cam myȝty Troylus. 1447 O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 22 Unwarly, er he wyst what it ment Wyth thy wycchecraft hys lyf was shent. 1514 Pace in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. I. 176 Thys post departide so hastyly and so unwarly that [etc.]. a 1542 Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 65 Vnwarely so was neuer no man caught..as I of late. 1596 Spenser F.Q. iv. iii. 8 Yet one [stroke]..Through Cambels shoulder..vnwarely went. |