[OE. ʓéarlíce = MLG. jârlik, OHG. jârlich, ON. árliga, etc.: see YEAR and -LY2.] Every year, once a year, year by year, annually.
c. 1050. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 347/9. Annuatim, ʓearlice.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xl. (Ninian) 1079. Þat man syne ȝerly can hym seke … Ilke ȝere … fra quhare he duelt in Ingland.
a. 1400. Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1914), 58. Þe gernare þat kepis ȝerely þe whete þat es rede with-owte and white with-in.
c. 1450. Godstow Reg., 47. A feld yerly tyllyd, or ellys euyry othyr yere.
c. 1460. Fortescue, Abs. & Lim. Mon., v. (1885), 119. Such as wolde haue ben feyner of a c. li in hand, than of xl. li worth lande yerely.
1500. Reg. Privy Seal Scot., I. 68/1. To haf merkatis and fairis in the said burgh ȝerle, with a merkat cors.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. (1882), 31. I thought one might haue had a farme or a lease for a reasonable rent yeerely.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Thevenot’s Trav., I. 177. There is a Caravan that yearly in Lent goes from Caire to Jerusalem.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time (1766), I. 536. He gave yearly great sums in charity.
1830. A. Cunningham, Brit. Painters, II. 176. The demand for his works lessened yearly.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. 65. It was agreed that Sunderland should receive this sum yearly.
