a. and adv. Obs. Also 6 carrenly. [f. CARRION + -LY.]
A. adj. Of the nature of carrion; corrupt, vile, loathsome. B. adv. Like carrion.
1547–64. Bauldwin, Mor. Philos. (Palfr.), viii. § 6. Pampering his carrionly carkasse. Ibid., 7. The rumor of no vice stinketh more carrionly, then the name of lechery.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 52. Such pestilent smell of a carrenly thing.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 68. A Carrionly Curre, entring her Tombe.
