Middle English Dictionary Entry
oughtlī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | oughtlī adv. Also ohtliche, ohliche & ahtliche, atliche, ahliche, hahtliche, hahliche, haþliche. |
| Etymology | OE āht-līce |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) In a manner befitting a military leader or his men; valiantly, courageously, boldly; (b) honorably, worthily, graciously.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)401 : Oht-liche heom slæð on [Otho: ahliche leggeþ ȝam an].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)797 : He wende on-ȝean sone, & he ohtliche [Otho: haþliche] feaht.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2836 : Þet folc þer wið-innen heom ohtliche [Otho: haht-liche] wið fehten.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3949 : Ohliche liðe we him to..& awalde we þe keisere.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4856 : Aruiragus..atliche him biuore uerde [Otho: hahliche him wornde] & draf hine ut.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)10495 : Þa men wið-innen oht-liche agunnen, stepen uppen stanene wal, wel iwepned ouer-al, & wereden þa riche wið þan stronge Childriche.
b
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15544 : Penda to Lundene com; he wes aht-liche [Otho: faire] under-uon, and Cadwalan þe kene mid lufe hine custe.