Middle English Dictionary Entry
quī̆tlī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | quī̆tlī adv. Also quiteli, (N) whiteli. |
| Etymology | From quī̆te adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Completely, entirely, wholly; (b) freely, entirely at liberty; without restrictions; freli and ~; also, free of charges [quot.: c1436].
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Guy(2) (Auch)p.596 : Þurch Gyes scheld it [a spear] glod..Bitvene his arme & side, & quitelich into þe feld it ȝede.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2341 : I wold..ȝe were fro þis quarrere quitly a-schaped.
- c1390 KTars (Vrn)61/1110 : Þe cristene soudan..smot him so for al his scheld, As he fleyn in þat feld, Quitliche of his heued.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1582 : Þe find wend witurli..þat al man kind quitli [Frf: hali] war his.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.115 : Ȝour ancestres conquered all France quitely.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5843 : Ne yit is he not thryven so That hehath geten a peny or two,That quytly is his owne in hold.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)14350 : His hed he smot of quitly al.
- a1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)189/1121t : It made þe swerde somdel glace, Þat halvendell þe brode sheld ffley quytely in-to þe felde.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)118.36 : Make my herte meke..that auarice be quytly shorne fra me.
- c1590(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64(2))87.5 : Graven in ther lusts & stinkand, whaim it semes as thou had whitely [vr. qwitly] forgetten.
b
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1792 : Lo, here this Arcite and this Palamoun, That quitly [vr. quietely] weren out of my prisoun And myghte haue lyued in Thebes roially.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.265 : We ask ȝow grace of þis, assoyle him of þat othe..Bot he mot quitely go in world where he fore, & frely passe him fro, fro whom þat he to suore.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)7929 : Al þe londe of Galilee Quytelich [vrr. Quicliche, Ryȝt now] byqueþe J þee.
- ?a1425 Brut-1333 (Dub 490)160/6 : Quytely [Rwl B.171: we assoile quyte Erles & barons..of her homages].
- (1427) *Plea & Mem.R.Lond.GildhA54/1b : Þat it be lawfull..to arere and resceyue all þe assignements, paiements, and sommes aboueseid frely and quitly with out..chalenge or empechement.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)133 : Who so evere take swich thyng to wedde of such poure..thanne have he or shee, to whom that thyng is longyng, deliveraunce of the same thyng be the ballyves of the forseid toun quytlych [ID(1): quitement] with oute any thing payeng.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)1200 : Conseil he tok..Wheþer þey redden hym for to slo, Oþer quytly let hym go.