Middle English Dictionary Entry
dailī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | dailī adv. Also dali. |
| Etymology | From dai . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Each and every day, daily; (b) day after day, again and again, constantly.
Associated quotations
a
- (1421) Indent.Catterick in Archaeol.J.759 : Nich' and his felaws sall pai yame yair wage daly.
- (1440-1) Visit.Alnwick125 : That houres of contemplacyone dayly be had in the cloystre after your rule.
- (1447) in Mullinger Cambridge 1313 : Plain lecture and exposicion..performed daily twyes by two docteurs notable.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)1524 : The Soudoun vsed..Dailie in hall to kepe the table.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)301/9 : To bryng home wod on his bak daylie.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1438 : Of balys also grete is this the boote, Dayly to gynne go [etc.].
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)78/171 : Ȝe must serve and wurchep god here dayly.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)63 : To wryte and make redy all the bookes..and to entyr dayly the provysyons of beefs, [etc.].
- a1500 Rule Serve Ld.(Add 37969)11/12 : As moche wode and colis as shall be spent dayle in the hall.
- a1500 GLitany (Dc 42)125 : That thei, in redyng and sayeng dayly this golden letany, may..repente themselffe of ther sinnes.
b
- (1423) Pet.Sutton in Fenland NQ 7307 : The pepul is fled and flees dayly out of the said towne.
- (c1430) Let.Christ Ch.in Camd.n.s.199 : My Lady Tatryshale recomendith here to yowre gracious lordshyp and grete kindchip that ye schewe on to hyr dayly.
- (1432) RParl.4.410a : To considere the harmes..that dayely fallez, and lykly is to falle, to the Kyng.
- (1440) in Black Leathersellers25 : For to eschu..harmes that dayly fallen in the sale of rough fellys and tawed fellys.
- (1448) Shillingford55 : How y have labored and called daylly to have the articulis delyvered..ye knawe well.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30176 : I wyte to..Thomas my jornenall that I bere in my slefe dayly.
- a1605(1470) Doc.Warwick&Clarence in Ellis Orig.Let.ser.2.1 (Hrl 543)136 : As dayly and howrlye is now by theyr dedes proved.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.54a : The said Mysdoers..dayly and nyghtly have lay in awayte.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)140 : We se dayly how men þat haue lost thair godis..be comme anon robbers and theves.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)10/13 : Quene Igrayne waxid dayly gretter and gretter..kyng Uther..asked hir, by the feith she ought to hym, whos was the child within her body.
- a1500(c1445) Lydg.Mir.Edmund (Ashm 46)207 : Our lord Jhesu..dayly..Hath in seint Edmond shewyd greet vertu.