Middle English Dictionary Entry
jeulī(e adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | jeulī(e adv. |
| Etymology | From Jeu. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
In the Jewish manner, in Jewish speech; also, cruelly.
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Is.36.11 : Spec to thi seruauntis in Sirie tunge..ne speke thou to vs Jewly [WB(2): bi the langage of Jewis; L Judaice].
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Gal.2.14 : If thou, sithen thou ert a Jew, lyuest hethenli and not Jewly [WB(2): Jewelich; L Judaice], hou constreynest thou hethene men for to bicome Jewis?
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)Gal.2.14 : If þou, O Peter, when þou art a Iew, lyuyst gentyly and not Iewly [L Iudaice], hou constreynes þou þe folc to lyfe Iewly [L Iudaisare]?
- a1500 With fauoure (Ryl Lat 395)20 : This cors [of Jesus] lith so rulye, So betyn, so wowndid, entreted so Iewlye [vr. fuly].