Weekly adv.

[f. WEEK sb. + -LY².] In each or every week, week by week. Usually, once in seven days.

1465.  in Paston Lett., II. 193. He payth for hys borde wykely xx^d.

1474.  Burgh Rec. Edin. (1869), I. 29. It is statut … that the said penny be rasit wolkly on the Monundaye.

1522.  Galway Arch., in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 400. No man shalbe made fre unlesse he can specke the Englishe tonge and shave his upper lipe wicklye.

1540.  Sc. Acts Jas. V. (1814), II. 378/1. That þair be wokly thre market dais for selling of breid within the said toune.

a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 182. The Legates sat wekely, & euery daie were argumentes on bothe partes and nothyng els doen.

1604.  E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, V. xxx. 427. There was one Priest alone resident continually, the which they changed weekely.

1670.  in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 15. Our daughter … tells me she gives your Ladyship weekely an account of her selfe.

a. 1700.  Evelyn, Diary, 7 Sept. 1665. There perishing neere 10,000 poore creatures weekly.

1726.  Ayliffe, Parergon, 140. As these Persons are oblig’d to perform the Communion Service in their turns Weekly, they are sometimes called Hebdomadal Canons.

1842.  Borrow, Bible in Spain, xxxvi. An acute Gallegan … who gave me weekly a faithful account of the copies sold.

1905.  R. Bagot, Passport, xv. 142. You had arranged for her [a governess] to come here two or three days weekly.