adv. Also 5 trostili, -yly. [f. TRUSTY a. + -LY2.] In a trusty manner.
† 1. With trust or confidence; trustfully, confidently, hopefully, boldly. Obs.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 3904. Þan turned þei titli aȝen & trustili gon fiȝt.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Sam. xii. 11. He delyuerde ȝow fro the hoond of ȝoure enemyes þi enuyroun; and ȝe han dwellid trustily.
c. 1450. Lovelich, Grail, I. 537. Trostily I beleve forsothe That God for my gilte nys not wrothe.
1485. Caxton, Chas. Gt., III. I. vi. 212. He shold come to hym peasybly & trustyly, with a fewe peple.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 17. To learne how foe to pacifie, But trust him not too trustilie.
1579. J. Jones, Preserv. Bodie & Soule, Ep. Ded. 4. Faith by the Charitie doth trustily water.
2. With fidelity or loyalty; faithfully.
c. 1425. Cast. Persev., 635, in Macro Plays, 96. Serue hym at honde Bothe nyth & day. Voluptas. Trostyly, lord, redy.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. Pref. 7. All such as behaue not themselues trustilie towards their neighbours.
1639. Horn & Rob., Gate Lang. Unl., lvi. § 607. [Trustees] who, if they deale trustily…, make inventories.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xii. He would have borne a letter trustily enough.
† 3. Truly, assuredly, certainly. Obs.
a. 1425. Langland’s P. Pl., C. IV. 498 (MS. F). Trustilich [v.r. tristilich] a teonful text.
c. 1450. Lovelich, Grail, liii. 262. For the I schal don More … Trustylich, Symew, As I the Seye.
