Obs. [f. WAKER a. + -LY1.] Wakeful, watchful.
c. 1400. Love, Bonavent. Mirr., xl. (1908), 224. Sothely he, as a good herde, was ful wakkerly and besy vppon the kepynge of that litell flok, his byloued disciples. Ibid., lxii. 285. I wole that thou be wakerly and quikke in thy soule.
1549. Chaloner, Erasm. on Folly, O iv. If he wiste … how his crosiers staffe admonished him of the wakery [? read wakerly] charg he shoulde take ouer his flocke.
