rankly, adv.
(ˈræŋklɪ)
[f. rank a. + -ly2.]
In a rank manner, in various senses of the adj.
| c 1000 Canons of ælfric §35 in Thorpe Laws II. 358/6 Ne eower reaf ne beo to ranclice ᵹemacod. c 1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 312/18 Þæt hiᵹ maᵹon þe ranclicor þas þing heora clericum ᵹeswutelian. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 431 Herk renk! is this ryȝt so ronkly to wrath. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Titus 28 Slowe belyes whiche..lyue in ydlenes and rankly. 1590 R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 10 Prid and venime, if they had so ranckly possessed his hart [etc.]. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 157 It's best when young, it smelling rankely when old. 1743 Lond. & Country Brewer ii. (ed. 2) 109 Because their Back, Tuns, or Tubs are not rankly damaged. 1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 57 If his Lordship found that he had been cheated rankly, he soon retaliated in kind. 1846 Holtzapffel Turning III. 1146 Tools for brass and gun-metal, when left from the grind⁓stone, cut too rankly. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 42 Steals a deforming rust on ploughs left rankly to moulder. |