adv. Obs. Forms: 4–5 al vtterly, alouterly, 5–6 aluterlie, 5–7 alluterlie, -ly. [See ALL C 6, and UTTERLY. After Wyclif and Chaucer, apparently retained only by Scottish writers.] Wholly, entirely, completely; wholly and utterly, absolutely.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boethius (1868), 109. Þei ne were nat alouterly vnknowen to me.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 54. I a cord in no þing wiþ him, but al vtterly we are contrari.
a. 1423. James I., King’s Q., IV. vi. Gif thy lufe be set alluterly Of nyce lust.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IV. vi. 99. Aluterlie dissauit or dissolate.
1582–8. Hist. James VI. (1804), 204. This was alluterly refuisit be the capitane.
1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), II. 387. To root out, destroy, alluterlie subvert all monuments of idolatrie.
