Obs. [f. FULL a. + -Y1.] Complete, perfect, thorough, without defect. Also, of a full or rounded form.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter, cxxxviii[i]. 22. With fulll hatereden hated I þa.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 9862. All es fulli þat he wroght.
1505. in Mem. Hen. VII. (Rolls), 232. The said queen’s [Joanna, of Naples] breasts be somewhat great and fully … they were trussed somewhat high … the which causeth her grace to seem much the fullyer, & her neck to be the shorter.
1513. Bradshaw, St. Werburge, I. 1366. Well-byloued father this is my fully mynde.
Hence † Fullily adv., completely, fully; † Fulliness, fullness.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 10404 (Cott.). Þe takening of a hundret tale Al fullines it takens hale.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, II. 423.
| And haid till erd gane fullyly, | |
| Ne war he hynt him by his sted. |
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, Baptista, 207. Al þe lafe … of his gret fullyness has tane.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., III. 127. All the laif … wes … with the said bischop fullelie remittit.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 174. S. Johne … is fullalie occupied in commending vnto vs brotherlie charitie.
