Obs. Only in the early forms: 3 aȝeliche, 4 aȝly. [f. prec.: see -LY2.] Awfully, terribly, dreadfully.

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a. 1230.  Ancr. R., 56. Nu cumeð forð a feble mon and halt him þauh heiliche [v.r. aȝeliche].

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., B. 937. Þe aungelez… aȝly hem þratten. Ibid., 874.

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