a. and adv. Obs. [f. as prec. + -LY.]
A. adj. Like or pertaining to a fellow.
1. Pertaining to or befitting comrades or friendly associates; social.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 276. Prudes salue is edmodnesse: ondes salue, feolauliche luue.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, II. iv. 77. Þat of felaly song of charite my substans I myȝt ransake.
1450–1530. Myrr. our Ladye, 329. Vertues & blyssed seraphyn synge togither with felowly ioy.
1578. J. Banister, The Historie of Man, Pref. 5. To the worshipfull the Maister, Wardens, Assistantes, and fellowly Fraternitie of Chirurgians in London.
2. Companionable, sociable, sympathetic.
a. 1440. Found. St. Bartholomew’s, 3. Thiswyse to kyng and grete men gentylls and courtyours y knowen, famylier and felowly he was.
c. 1500. The Young Children’s Book, 94, in Babees Bk., 21.
| Sytt vp-ryght And honestly, | |
| Ete & drinke, & be feleyly. |
1573. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 4. After dinner … I continuid as long as ani, and was as fellowli as the best.
1610. Shaks., Temp., V. i. 64.
| Mine eyes ev’n sociable to the shew of thine | |
| Fall fellowly drops. |
1688. Bunyan, Jerus. Sinn. Saved (1886), 112. Why not fellowly with our carnal neighbours?
1887. Kentish Gloss., Fellowly, familiar, free.
B. adv. In a manner like a fellow or equal; on equal terms; sociably; hence, familiarly.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 38. Delen in his pinen veolauliche on eorðe.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 92. To-gidyr beand & acordand be kyndely stirryng felaly þa ar glad.
1582. Bentley, Mon. Matrones, III. 305. Then seeing more felowlie the glorie of the Lord, we shall be transformed into the same image.
a. 1631. Donne, Sermons, ix. 92. When young men think it the only argument of a good spirit, to behave themselves fellowly, and frowardly, to great persons, those greater persons in time take away their respect from princes, and at last … God loses the respect and honour due to him.
