Obs. Forms: 1 wynlic, wenlic, 3 wunlic, wun-, wund-, wune-, wonliche, 4 wynly, -lich(e, -wynnelych, 5 wynlyche, winli. [OE. wynlic, f. wyn(n joy, WIN sb.2 + -lic, -LY1.] Pleasant, agreeable; goodly, splendid, beautiful. (Often merely a vague epithet of commendation.)
a. 1000. Phœnix, 34. Sunbearo lixeð, wuduholt wynlic.
c. 1000. Ags. Hom. (Assmann), ix. 205. Heo wæs swiðe wlitiʓ and wenlices hiwes.
c. 1205. Lay., 8090. Wæs at foren þan wæfde imaked an wunlic fur. Ibid., 10000. Stod þe wundliche [c. 1275 wonliche] wude amidden ane wælde.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter xxiii[i]. 3. Wha sal stegh in hille of lauerd winli?
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 1411. Some of þo wynly wones Were peynted with precyus stones.
a. 1400. Pistill of Susan, 99. With wardons winlich and walshe notes newe.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 181. Ther-to wylde to wale, and wynlyche bryddes.
