adv. Now rare. Also 6–7 wealthely. [-LY2.] In a wealthy manner.
1534. Whitinton, Tullyes Offices, II. (1540), 75. That pertayne and avayle a man to lyue well and welthyly.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, I. (1895), 105. All thynges be so well and wealthelye ordered, that vertue is had in pryce and estimatyon.
1567. J. Sanford, trans. Epictetus, Epist. A ij b. That we should be in felicitie and leade our life both well and wealthilie.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., I. ii. 75. I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua.
1614. S. Daniel, Hymen’s Tri., II. i. And thus they all vnhappy by that meanes Which they accompt would bring all happinesse; Most wealthely are plagu’d, with rich distresse.
1658. Whole Duty Man, xiv. § 25. When out of an eagerness of bestowing them wealthily, they force them to marry utterly against their own inclinations.
1755. Johnson, Richly, adv.,… with riches; wealthily.
