▪ I. † wrothly, a. Obs.
In 4 wrathli.
[repr. OE. wráðlic, f. wráþ wroth a.]
Angry, violent.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 3462 Wit wrathli [Gött. wrethly] wrestes aiþer writh. |
▪ II. † ˈwrothly, adv. Obs.
Forms: α. 1 wraðlice, 3 wraðliche, Orm. wraþeliȝ, 4 wrathli, -ly, 5 Sc. wraithly. β. 3 wroð-, wroðeliche, 4 wroþeliche, -lich, wroþlich, wroþli, -ly, 4–5 wroþely, wrothely, 5 wroothly.
[OE. wráðl{iacu}ce (= MLG. wretliken, MDu. wreedelick, Du. -lijk), f. wráð wroth a. + -ly2.]
1. In a wrathful, bitter, or cruel manner; wrathfully, angrily, furiously.
| α Beowulf 3062 Þa sio fæhð ᵹewearð ᵹewrecen wraðlice. c 1200 Ormin 15832 Ȝiff þatt Crist swa wraþeliȝ Draf menn..Ut off þatt temmple. c 1205 Lay. 7379 Cezar iseh þis writ, and he hit wrað liche bi-heold. a 1300 Cursor M. 3958 Quen he of his cuming herd Ful wrathli gains him he ferd. a 1340 Hampole Psalter i. 3 It is wiþ swa mykil delaiynge & swa wrathly, þat it is noght worth þat þai doe. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxix. (Placidas) 303 Forton..turnyt hyr bak one hym wrathly. c 1470 Henry Wallace iv. 237 Wallace,..Sumpart amowet, wraithly till it..went. c 1470 Golagros & Gaw. 162 Wondirly wraithly he wroght, and all as of were. |
| β c 1205 Lay. 485 Þe king nom þat writ on hond & he hit wroðliche bi-heold. c 1330 Amis & Amil. 1166 The leuedi loked opon him tho Wrothlich. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 132 Þay wakened wel þe wroþeloker, for wroþely he cleped. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 68 Wroþliche he wrong his fust. 1421 Hoccleve Min. Poems 151 He wroothly wente out of hir conpaignie. c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 9 Oure Lord..shoke thre speres wrothly. |
2. Badly; ill. rare.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 193 Man hit noteð wroðeliche, þe mid ȝepshipe bicherð his emcristen. c 1230 Hali Meid. 33 (Cott. MS.), Ȝif þu art unwurðliche & wraðeliche ilatet. |
3. Sadly; sorrowfully. rare—1.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. prose i. (1868) 7 Þus þis compaygnie of muses i-blamed casten wroþely [L. mœstior] þe chere adounward to þe erþe. |