adv. [OE. beorhtlíce, brihtlíce, f. beorht, BRIGHT + -lice, -LY2.] In a bright manner; brilliantly, clearly.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Mark viii. 25. Swa þæt he beorhtlice [1160 Hatton brihtlice] eall ʓeseah.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 154. Þenne … schule ȝe al þis brihtliche understonden. Ibid., 170. Te brihtluker iseon ine heouene Godes brihte nebscheft.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 3491. Ðo so spac god so briȝt-like, ðat alle he it herden.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3320. A gold ringe þat brihtly schane.
1340. Ayenb., 150. Hi zyeþ briȝtliche … and al aboute ham.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xv. (1617), 265. Some brightlyer and some dimlier.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., V. i. 94. A substitute shines brightly as a King Vntill a King be by.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIV. 569. Till brightly-dawning shone The Morn.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. xx. (1880), I. 273. A long narrow room, painted brightly like the other.
1882. Howells, in Longm. Mag., I. 51. The grass is … brightly green.
