Forms: α. 23 sari-, 3 særiliche, 4 sarili, 45 -ly. β. 2, 4 soriliche, 5 soryly, 57 sorily, 7 sorrily. [f. SORRY a. + -LY2 Cf. MHG. sêrichliken.]
† 1. In a sorrowful manner; sadly, sorrowfully.
α. c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 39. Þu scalt bi-wepen þine sunne and ȝeoten þine teres swiðe sariliche.
c. 1205. Lay., 13626. Swiðe he gon to wepen & særiliche siken.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 5. Nis ha þenne sariliche akast, & in-to þewdom idrahen.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 14252. To fete sco fele him sarili.
c. 1400. Ywaine & Gaw., 1791. He luked up ful sarily.
β. c. 1175. in Fragm. Ælfrics Gloss., etc. (1838), 6. Ȝet sæiþ þeo sowle soriliche to þen licame [etc.].
13878. T. Usk, Test. Love, II. iii. (Skeat), l. 60. [To] blobere and wepe til hem list stint, and sorily her mishap complayne.
c. 1400. Rowland & O., 459. And all þe lethirs þat þare ware Þay assembled soryly.
c. 1450. Lovelich, Merlin, 2460. Goth forth, and axeth the modyr the cause why, why that hire husbond wepeth so soryly.
1606. J. Carpenter, Solomons Solace, i. 6. He mingled his drinke with his teares, sighed sorily, and lamented wofully.
† 2. So as to cause sorrow; grievously; lamentably, pitiably. Obs.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 224. Swuðe ofte þer biuoren he hefde iseid him euer soð, uorte biswiken him soriliche on ende.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 4810 (Kölbing). What Sarrazin so he mett, Wel soriliche he hem grett.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 754. Þai solast hom samyn With venus werkes Þat sorily dessauis, & men to sorow bringes.
c. 1440. Jacobs Well, 116. Ȝe be soryly deed wyth þe poysoun of þe feend.
3. In a poor, wretched or deplorable manner; miserably, wretchedly.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 73. Thy pipe, O Pan, shall helpe, though I sing sorily.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. (1594), 335. All his [Marcus Curius] possession was but a little farme in the countrie sorily built.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Nice Valour, II. i. Yet goodness, whose inclosure is but flesh, Holds out oft times but sorrily.
1688. Bunyan, Jerus. Sinner Saved (1886), 46. Churches would do but sorrily, if Christ Jesus did not put such converts among them.
1709. J. Johnson, Clergym. Vade M., II. p. xlvi. Tis so sorrily related, and by one who lived so many hundred years after.
1768. Johnson, Lett. (1788), I. 10. You serve me very sorrily.
1815. Scott, Lett., in Lockhart (1837), III. xi. 360. The Brunswickers and Hanoverians behaved very well; the Belgians but sorrily enough.
1856. Doran, Knights & their Days, xvi. 243. Rough games, that suited but sorrily with their calling.
1875. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), VI. xi. 445. Thus sorrily lagged the males in their undesigned trial of speed.
Comb. 1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 607. In the sorrily-printed pages of the original London Post.