adv. Obs. [OE. ʓéaplíce: see YEPE a. and -LY2.]
1. Cunningly, craftily; shrewdly, sagaciously.
a. 900. Kent. Gl., xxi. Procaciter, ʓeaplice.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 80. Þa betealde he [sc. Herod] hine swiðe ʓeaplice, swa swa he wæs snotorwyrde.
c. 1055. Byrhtferth’s Handboc, in Anglia, VIII. 313. Hiʓ eac tosceadað þæt stæfʓefeʓ on þrym wisan ʓeaplice swyðe.
2. Quickly, briskly; promptly, without delay.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1981. Fele þryuande þonkkez he þrat hom to haue, & pay ȝelden hym aȝayn ȝeply þat ilk.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 3346. [He] ȝerne opened þe ȝates & ȝepli out rides.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XVII. 328. Then he ȝerneþ in-to þouht and ȝepliche he secheþ Pruyde.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 6081. For to ȝarke vp the ȝate, he ȝepely comaund.
c. 1430. Pistill of Susan, 118 (Cott. MS.). Thus þe ȝonge ȝepply ȝede in here ȝerde.
