Also 6 broderly. [f. BROTHER + -LY1. Cf. OE. bróðorlíc; but no corresponding form is found in ME.]
1. Of or pertaining to a brother; also, characteristic of a brother, fraternal, kind, affectionate.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., vi. 15. Fraternus, broðorlic.
1535. Coverdale, Amos i. 2. They … haue not remembred the brotherly couenaunt [Wyclif, boond of bretheren].
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind., I. II. 72. A brotherly league.
1656. Jeanes, Mixt. Schol. Div., 152. A brotherly Saviour, and Redeemer.
1835. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), III. 299. The freest, brotherliest, bravest human soul.
b. Common in brotherly kindness, love (sometimes, though unnecessarily, joined by a hyphen).
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 170. Fraternall charite or brotherly loue.
1611. Bible, 2 Peter i. 7. Adde to godlinesse, brotherly kindnesse. Ibid., Hebr. xiii. 1. Let brotherly loue continue.
1667. H. More, Div. Dial., V. xlii. (1713), 526. The exercise of … Brotherly-kindness.
1856. R. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 199. To displace this pride by brotherly-kindness.
† 2. Of things: Acting in harmonious conjunction.
1638. A. Read, Treat. Chirurg., xx. 146. Two brotherly muscles, appoynted for sundry motions of the same part.
