Obs. In 1, 3 sarlic, 3 sorlich. [OE. sárlíc (f. sár SORE a.1), = obs. Flem. seerlick (Kilian), OHG. sêrlîh; cf. ON. sárlig-r, MSw. sārligh.] Painful, sorrowful; sad.
Beowulf, 842. No his lifʓedal sarlic þuhte secga æneʓum.
c. 888. K. Ælfred, Boeth., xi. § 2. Maneʓra sarlicra wita hi ʓewilnodon wið þæm ecan life.
971. Blickl. Hom., 123. Se sarlica cwide … þe ure Drihten … to þæm ærestan men cwæþ.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, II. 140. He … cwæð him to sona mid sarlicre stemne.
c. 1205. Lay., 28457. Þa quene læi inne Eouwerwic, næs heo næuere swa sarlic [v.r. sorlich].
