adv. [f. LITHE a. + -LY2.]

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  † 1.  Gently, graciously, meekly, mildly. Obs.

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c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past., xxi. 150. Hwilum liðelice to ðreatiʓeanne.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 428. Techeð ham to holden hore riulen … liðeliche þauh, & luueliche.

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a. 1240.  Sawles Warde, in Cott. Hom., 259. Wel is riht þat we þe liðeliche lustnin.

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  2.  With pliant movement; briskly, nimbly.

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1813.  Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 69. And quhen we cam to the Lommond height, Se lythlye we lychtid doune.

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1854.  Fraser’s Mag., L. 398. Your line springs lithely into the air, hookless, and of course fishless.

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