It is difficult to say whether the form lustely(e in the 15–16th c. belongs to this word or to LUSTLY adv.]
† 1. With pleasure or delight; pleasantly, pleasurably; delightfully. Also, gladly, willingly. (Cf. LUSTLY adv. 1.) Obs.
c. 1225. Juliana, 75. Lustnið lustiliche hali writes lare.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 1319. A, lord! they lived lustily! [F. cum menoient bonne vie!] Ibid. (1386), Knt.’s T., 671. Whan þat Arcite hadde romed al his fille, And songen al the roundel lustily In-to a studie he fil sodeynly.
c. 1430. Lydg., Reas. & Sens., 275. Or Plyades and sterres sevene, That so lustely do shyne.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 318/1. Lustyly, or lystyly, delectabiliter.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, x. 45. Now spring vp flouris fra the rute … Lay out ȝour levis lustely.
1526. Skelton, Magnyf., 1583. These wordes in myne eyre they be so lustely spoken, That [etc.].
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel., xxi. K iv. These fyve thynges … were lustely and willyngly graunted by the Senate.
2. With vigor or energy; vigorously, energetically; with a will, heartily, cheerfully. Now said only of physical activity.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), xxii. 238. Thei make Knyghtes to jousten in Armes fulle lustyly.
a. 1479. Caxton, Bk. Curtesye, xliv. It is to a godly chyld wel syttynge … To harpe or lute or lustely to synge.
1535. Coverdale, Ps. xxxii. 3. Singe him a new songe, yee synge lustely unto him & with a good corage.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., IV. i. 201. I determine to fight lustily for him.
1632. Brome, North. Lasse, I. i. Wks. 1873, III. 2. Tri. What, married! Luc. Lustily promis’d Sir. Absolutely contracted.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 156. They bowze it lustily, with varietie of meates and pleasure.
1685. Wood, Life, 21 June. It began to raine lustily for a quarter of an hour.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, I. xix. (1840), 349. He … cried out to us … lustily.
1738. Swift, Pol. Conversat., 35. If she ben’t marry’d, at least she’s lustily promis’d.
1829. Scott, Anne of G., xxx. He saw him feed lustily as well as carve featly.
1877. A. B. Edwards, Up Nile, xxi. 641. Every inch of arable ground is turned to account. All that grows, grows lustily.
1898. G. S. Tyack, Bk. abt. Bells, x. 170. The bells pealing forth right lustily from the steeple of the parish church.
† 3. Lustfully, carnally. Obs.
c. 1410. Love, Bonavent. Mirr., xxxiv. (Gibbs MS.), lf. 64. That a man þat seeþ a woman lustyly … is accounted a lechoure.
1520. Caxton’s Chron. Eng., IV. 28 b/2. On a certayn nyght whan he wold lustely knowe his wyfe she dremed that she shold bere a chylde of myschefe.
1589. Pappe w. Hatchet, B ij b. I thinke it [lecherie] … no harme if the tearmes be not abusde: for you must say, vertuously done, not lustily done.
