adv. Obs. Forms: 3 þræfliche, 6 thraftly. [perh. f. OE. þræft quarrel, contention, chiding (= ON. þrapt quarrel: cf. OE. þrafian to urge, press, rebuke, censure) + -LY2.] ? Angrily; surlily.
c. 1205. Lay., 27797. Ah Bruttes him þrungen to þræfliche [c. 1275 wroþliche] swiðe.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot., XXI. xxxvi. (MS. F. Advoc. Libr.; ed. 1728, 171), Where they were bot thraftlie receaved of the King.
