Obs. Forms: see WONDER sb.; also 5 wondarly. [OE. wunderlíce = OS. wundarlîco (MLG., MDu. wunderlîke), OHG. wuntarlîhho (MHG. wunderlîche); f. WONDER sb. + -LY2.] = WONDERFULLY 1. a. In a wonderful manner; marvelously.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., liv. 433. Swa wundorlice hit todælð … se godcunda wisdom be hira æʓðeres ʓeearnungum.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 194. Wundurlice heo hæleþ.
c. 1205. Lay., 28627. Twa wimmen … wunderliche idihte.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 10043. Þat water suþþe heye aros … & mo þan ten þousend men wonderliche adrencte.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 2535. Wonderli a werwolf ȝesterday hem saued.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 207. Som tyme burþes beeþ i-bore wonderliche and wonderliche i-schape.
c. 1400. 26 Pol. Poems, xxiv. 374. Wiþ þy blod principal, Wonderly þou haste vs boȝt.
c. 1500. Melusine, i. 5. Wherfore he punysshed them so secretly & so wounderly.
a. 1529. Skelton, Bouge of Court, 283. Anone ther mette with him,… A man, but wonderly besene was he.
a. 1562. G. Cavendish, Wolsey (1893), 32. The court … was wonderly furnysshed with noble men and gentilmen.
b. To a wonderful extent or degree.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxiii. 616. Þær wearð þa ʓegaderod wundorlice micel folc.
c. 1205. Lay., 7320. He wes wunderliche wrah [= wraþ]. Ibid. (c. 1275), 2677. He … one neuwe borh makede … wonderliche [c. 1205 mærliche] fair.
1340. Ayenb., 267. Þe profetes … and þe patriarkes wonderlyche glediynde ine blisse.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 84. Wonderly delyuere and of greet strengthe.
c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 520. His garnamentes … hym becam wonderly wel.
1482[?]. J. Watton, Speculum Christiani, 46 b. Thair sence [= incense] was wonderly wrought With riche spices.
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., lxxxvii. 198. His hart wunderlie faynted.
