adv. Obs. For forms see prec. [f. prec. + -LY2.] With rough violence, roughly, rudely, coarsely, violently, boisterously.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Clerkes T., 735. He on a day in open audience fful boistously [Harl. MS. boystrously] haþ seyd hire this sentence.

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1447.  Bokenham, Seyntys (1835), 68. Hys doughtir he smote ful bustously Up on the cheke.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. ii. 53. Thai [winds] vmbesett the seis busteously.

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1549.  Chaloner, Erasm. on Folly, ii. Than cometh Silenus … with Poliphemus boisteously stampyng.

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1583.  Golding, Calvin’s Serm. Deut. xl. 237. If we reproue them boystowsly without any charitable affection.

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