Obs. Forms: see TRISTY a.1 [f. TRISTY a.1 + -LY2.]
1. Trustfully; confidently, boldly; securely: = TRUSTILY 1.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 42. Goo þei [friars] tristiliche for almes, and hem nediþ not to be a-schamyd. Ibid. (1382), Acts ix. 27. Barnabas … telde … how in Damask he [Paul] dide tristily in the name of Jhesu. Ibid. (1388), Prov. iii. 23. Thanne thou schalt go tristili in thi weie, and thi foot schal not snapere.
c. 1410. Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1907), 149. The euerelastynge lyf in heuene, that thei tristily hopen to haue by his gracious byheste.
2. Faithfully, truly: = TRUSTILY 2.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 4864. Þer to han hated, & fomen ben, Þat syþen han loued to-gedre wel, Tristiloker þan ony stel.
1380. Lay Folks Catech., 1181. Þis is nedful to alle þat tristyly lyuys.
a. 1400. Pistill of Susan, 340 (Cotton MS.). Telle me tristili [other MSS. treuwely, trewly, trwly], er þow þy lyfe tyne.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 8739. A tabernacle triet & tristyly wroght.
3. Certainly, surely: = TRUSTILY 3.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 1166 (Glasgow MS.). If she hadde an enemy, I trowe that she coude tristely [v.r. craftily] Make hym fulle soone hir frend to be.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. IV. 498. He þat secheþ sapience fynde he shal þat folueþ Tristilich a teneful tixt.
