adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a wonderful manner.
1. So as to excite wonder; † miraculously; to a wonderful degree or extent; marvelously, astonishingly, surprisingly: often passing into a mere intensive = amazingly well or much; extraordinarily, exceedingly.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter xliv. [xlv]. 6. Þy pouste shal laden þe wonderfulliche.
13[?]. Cursor M., 11424 (Gött.). Þe stern went forwid þat þaim ledd, And wonþerfulli [Cott. ferlilic, Fairf., Trin. wondirly] þan war þai fedd.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter xcvii. 1. God … þat wondirfully made man and wondirfullyere boght him.
a. 1400. Prymer (1891), 35. He was boren wonderfulliche of a mayde.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 69. Ane emplastre of þe white of ane rawe ey and oile … is seid wonderfully for to be mitigatiue.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VI. cc. (1533), 123 b/2. He arrered excedynge imposycyons of the people, and greued them wonderfully.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., IV. (S.T.S.), I. 237. Eugenie had ane onlie dauchtir,… quha wounderfullie was … mouet with effectione of a religious lyfe.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 813. A chappell wonderfully built out of a rocke hewen hollow.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. 23. The conversation of the English abroad, is wonderfullie pleasing unto strangers.
1642. Caldwell Papers (Maitl. Club), I. 94. I pray God send her safe hither; wee wonderfully want her.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, II. (Globe), 336. I wonderfully lik’d the Man.
1765. Museum Rust., IV. 258. The seed being exceeding small, and to be sown wonderfully thin.
1789. Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, I. 149. Their wonderfully situated metropolis [sc. Venice].
1839. Thackeray, Fatal Boots, Jan. It got through the measles wonderfully.
1885. ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ Valerie’s Fate, iv. It was a capital play, too, and so wonderfully acted.
† 2. With wonder or admiration. Obs. rare.
c. 1450. Merlin, xiii. 200. Ther dide Gawein soche merveiles in armes that wondirfully was he be-holden of hem of logres.
1570. J. Dee, Math. Pref., *j. How Immateriall … Number is, who doth not perceaue? yea, who doth not wonderfully wonder at it?
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 35. The crowd that wonderfully stares, To hear him talk of things in foreign land.
