Forms: see FULL a. and -LY2. [OE. fullíce, f. FULL a. + líce -LY2 = OS. fullîko, OHG. follicho (MHG. volliche).]
In a full manner or degree; to the hill, without deficiency; completely, entirely; thoroughly, exactly, quite. † Fully and by (Naut.) = full and by: see BY B. 1 d.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., II. iii. (1890), 104. Heo [the church] þa ȝyta næs fullice ȝeworht ne ȝehalȝod.
c. 1050. Byrhtferth’s Handboc, in Anglia (1885), VIII. 306. Þæt he fullice gefrætwod sy mid feower & twentig tidum.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 73. He nis noht fulliche cristene mon þet [etc.].
c. 1205. Lay., 14150. Ich beo i þine londe fulliche at-stonde.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 11. Meidenhad is te blosme þat beo ha eanes fulliche forcoruen, ne spruteð ha neauer eft.
c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 29/6. Þat fulliche so holi man nas.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 476.
| For unnethes es a child born fully | |
| Þat it ne bygynnes to goule and cry. |
1389. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 50. We fulliche vndirstondend ȝour lettres.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 87. Him nediþ his medicyn I-maad nouȝt fulliche so drie.
c. 1440. Douce MS., 55 ch. xx. Lete it nat buille fully.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., ii. 5 (Harl. MS.). Whenne the candell was liȝt, þey sawe fully the toode sitting on his brest.
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 26. More opynner and fullyor than he knewe afore.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 230 b. All the powers & desyres of mannes soule shall be fully contented & quyeted.
1611. Bible, Rev. xiv. 18. Thrust in thy sharpe sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.
1630. R. Johnson, Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms, etc., 187. Italian, Spanish, and Greek, who fully pronounce every letter in the word.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, 275. They [his eyes] are withall so fully placed, as is most comely and most expedient for the perfect sight of the estate, and necessities of his servants.
1653. Baxter, Chr. Concord, 19. The things that we thought should be fullier expressed then in the ancient Creed, are these.
1695. Ld. Preston, Boeth., II. 63. I know that thou art one who hast been fully perswaded.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., I. i. 15. Sheeps Wooll, that is fully as hard and coarse as Hogs Hair.
1766. Goldsm., Vic. W., iii. In this I satisfied him fully.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), E ee. Fully and by!
1791. Mrs. Radcliffe, Rom. Forest, i. And introduced the strangers more fully to each other.
1845. M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), I. 17. Inferior Franks who had followed him from Soissons posted themselves, fully armed, outside.
1848. C. Brontë, J. Eyre, v. By the time that exercise was terminated, day had fully dawned.
1891. Law Times, XC. 441/2. Both sides should be heard, and heard fully.
b. with numerals and expressions of quantity. Also (To eat, feed) fully = to satiety.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 488. Þar he badd noght fullik an vre.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 4570. Anticrist … Sal regne thre yhere and an half fully.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 2092. Fuliche ne is he noȝt now fram þe vj fet y-mete in brede.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 111. Ne take his ese [wolde he] fully half a day.
c. 1425. Craft Nombrynge (E.E.T.S.), 26. By twene an hundryth and a thowsande, so þat it be not a þowsande fully.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccvii. 189. The kyng had not yet fullych eten.
1552. Bk. Com. Prayer, Ordination, Pref. Fully thyrtie yeres of age.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. cxxxii. x.
| That ev’n the poore who in her bee | |
| With store of bread | |
| Shall, fully, all be fedd. |
1720. Pope, Iliad, XXIII. 220. Behold Achilles’ promise fully paid.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), II. ii. 25. Hesitation lasting fully two days.
