Obs. [OE. ʓeonglic = MDu. jongelîk, OHG., MHG. junglîch, ON. ungligr: see YOUNG a. and -LY1.] Young, youthful, juvenile (in years, in appearance or condition).
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., ix. (Z.), 54. Iuuenilis, iunglic. Ibid. (c. 1000), Hom., II. 118. On ʓeonglicum ʓearum.
a. 1225. Leg. Kath., 544. A meiden ȝunglich of ȝeres.
c. 1290. St. Brendan, 704, in S. Eng. Leg., 239. Þo cam to heom a ȝonglich man.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter, cxviii[i]. 141. Yongelike am I, and hated for-þi.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 369. Beerdles with a yongly face.
1478. Earl Rivers, Crystyne’s Mor. Prov. (1859), 2 b. A yongly man of chastisyng content Is signe of grace & of a good entent.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xxxix. (1870), 300. A mery herte and mynde … causeth a man to lyue longe, and to loke yongly.
a. 1577. Sir T. Smith, in Strype, Life (1698), App. 42. Look what Ladies and Gentlewomen be most fruitful, and have most Children, if they look not for their Age most youngly, best coloured, and be clearest from Diseases.
1634. [see INFANTRY 2].
