adv. Obs. Forms: 1 cáflíce, 3 cofliche, 4 coflich, cofly, cofli. [OE. cáflíce, f. cáf, COF + -líce: see -LY1.] Quickly, keenly, boldly, fiercely.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Lives of Saints, St. George, 51. And com to ðam casere and hine caflice befran.
c. 1205. Lay., 1705. Heo … cofliche vt wenden.
1340–70. Alisaunder, 297. Þe Kyng with his keene ost coflich fightes. Ibid., 662. Hee kneeles coflich adoune. Ibid., 748. Þis menskfull Queene … hym praies, Þat he cofly comme.
