[f. WEEK sb. + -LY1.] A. adj.
† 1. Of or pertaining to the week (either as a seven-days’ period or as opposed to Sunday). Obs.
1563. Homilies, Of Place & Time of Prayer, I. II. 138. That vpon the Sabboth day … they shoulde ceasse from all weekely and workeday labour.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xi. 178. Hengists noble heyres; their Idols that to raise Heere put their German names vpon our weekly daies.
2. That occurs, is done, made, given, etc., once a week. Weekly Bill: see BILL sb.3 10.
Weekly tenancy: one determinable at the end of any week.
1489. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 1528, 120/1. In the delivering of thir oulkly penny to God and to Sanct Jhonne.
1525. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 1527, 97. The forsaid wolklie penny and halpeny salbe payit ilk Setterday.
1576–77. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 582. His releif of the said owlklie wageis as accordis.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. xix. § 1. The Iewes haue alwaies had their weekely readings of the law of Moses.
1621. (title) Corante: or weekely newes from Italy, Germany, [etc.].
1681. in Nairne Peerage Evid. (1874), 16. With a weekly markett and two free faires yearly.
1699. G. Harvey, Van. Philos. & Physick, vi. 46. The daily, weekly, or frequent use of Opiates.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 79, ¶ 9. The Indiscretion of the Books themselves, whose very Titles of Weekly Preparations … lead People of ordinary Capacities into great Errors.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 289, ¶ 2. The Use I make of the above-mentioned Weekly Paper.
1732. Pope, Ep. Bathurst, 264. The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread.
a. 1806. Horsley, Serm. (1812), II. xxiii. 227. A public weekly assertion of the two first articles in our Creed.
1842. Dickens, Amer. Notes, iv. The weekly charge in this establishment for each female patient is three dollars.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. iii. 390. In this way he gathered materials for weekly epistles destined to enlighten some county town.
1899. S. R. Gardiner, O. Cromwell, vi. 192. He found repose in a weekly visit to Hampton Court.
1920. Act 10 & 11 Geo. V., c. 30 § 2. Entitled … to receive payments … at weekly or other prescribed intervals.
b. With a personal designation: Performing some action, or employed in some capacity, once a week; that has a contract by the week.
Weekly man Austral., an extra hand taken on for one or more weeks. Weekly tenant, ‘one paying rent by the week, and liable to removal on a week’s notice’ (Simmonds, Dict. Trade, 1858).
1712. Prior, Extempore Invit., 1. Our Weekly Friends To-morrow meet At Matthew’s Palace.
1737. Pope, Hor. Ep., I. i. 155. They change their weekly Barber.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer, xx. Filling up the station with a lot of weekly men.
† c. slang. Weekly-accompts pl., a name given to the small square white patches on each side of a midshipman’s collar.
1819. Vaux, Mem., I. 69. The midshipmen proceeded to cut off the weekly accompts from the coat I had on.
B. sb. A newspaper or review published once in each week.
1846. C. Mitchell, Newsp. Press Directory, 81. Not any of the newspapers published at the close of the week display more activity or success than this [the Observer] in the acquisition of news, which, after the preceding six days, has been swept and exhausted by the immense resources of the dailys; and this is the great difficulty in a weekly.
1858. Times, 29 Nov., 6/3. Clever weeklies and less clever dailies.
1863. Morn. Star, 3 Jan. To-day a new literary Weekly of high pretensions begins its existence.
1914. in Civil Service Year Bk. (1916), 294. They take 6 penny daily papers and 3 halfpenny ones; 3 weeklies costing 3d. each and 5 weeklies costing 6d. each.
