2. Adverb. (context: UK dialectal) Easily; readily. ¹
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Definition of Eathly
1. in an easy manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eathly
Literary usage of Eathly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"Nomencl. EATERS, «. Servants. Jonson. EATH, (1) adj. (A.-S. eaS.) Easy. North.
eathly, easily. For wtf fay proofe the field is talk to win. ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... easy, eaS (common in compounds). eathly, easily. Peele, Order of the Garter, ed.
Dyce, p. 567. Common in Scottish poetry (EDD.). eaths, easily. ..."
3. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1863)
"... present salvation he enjoyed, and the future glory to which he aspired, alone
to the free and unmerited grace of God in Christ Jesus. His eathly remains ..."
4. Eōthen by Alexander William Kinglake (1849)
"... making me speak almost as civilly to the followers of Christ as I did to their
Mahometan foes. This "Holy" Damascus, this "eathly paradise" of the Pro. ..."
5. The Burns Country: By Charles S. Dougall ... With Fifty Full-page by Charles Shirra Dougall (1904)
"... seraphic fire Which his sweet sonnets eathly could impart, They list'ning
stood, ne never did they tire, So steal'd his soft persuasion on the heart, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"eathly. Easily. Peele, ii. 232. EATHS. Easily ; commonly. Nares. EAT-OUT.
To undermine by false insinuations ; to eat too much at another's expense. North. ..."
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