a. Obs. [OE. stæflic: see STAFF sb.1 and -LY1. Cf. ON. stafligr.] Literal. So † Staffly adv. [see -LY2], literally.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxv. 73. Hi … nellað understandan butan þæt steaflice [v.r. stæflice] andʓit.
c. 1200. Ormin, 11117. Forr to drinnkenn gastliȝ witt Ut off stafflike fetless. Ibid., 14419. Aȝȝ whil þatt menn þurrh flæshliȝ witt Stafflike itt unnderrstodenn. Ibid., 15055. Þa takesst tu gastlike witt Off staffliȝ witeȝhunnge.
