Sc. [f. WEIRD sb. + -LY1.]
1. Favored by fate, happy, prosperous.
1807. Hogg, Mtn. Bard, Poet. Wks. 1838, II. 211. Harden was a weirdly man. Ibid. (1819), Jacobite Relics, II. 189. In thy bien and weirdly nook Lie some stout Clan-Gillian banes.
2. Pertaining to, or suggestive of, witchcraft or the supernatural.
1831. Hogg, Magic Mirror, in Blackw. Mag., XXX. 650. A hill for weirdly deeds renowned.
1858. Masson, Milton, I. 538. In such studies and weirdly phantasies let the night pass.
1880. J. E. Watt, Poet. Sk., 19 (E.D.D.). Though a warlock had waggit his weirdly wand To bring doon the lift on my head.
Hence Weirdliness.
1859. Masson, Brit. Novelists, 243. Passages … to which, for visual weirdliness, there is nothing comparable in the pages of his rival.
