adv. Obs. In a well-favored manner.
a. Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 668/2. But now goeth Tindal wel fauoredly forth with a great face of another ful solucion.
1538. Elyot, Dict., Pulchre, an aduerbe, signifyeth fayre, beautifully, well fauoredly.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 7. We dooe not put images to makyng but onely to suche werkemenne of whom wee see some noumbre of images welfauouredly and mynionly made afore.
1545. Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 143. Teatche me to shoote as fayre, and welfauouredly as you can imagen.
1562. Turner, Bathes, 1 b. He that had ben in Italye and Germany, and had sene howe costly and wellfauoredly the bathes are trimmed and appoynted there … woulde [etc.].
1790. Shirrefs, Poems, Gloss. 39/1. Weelfar’dly, cleverly, with a good grace.
1825. Jamieson, Weil-faur’tlie, adv. 1. Handsomely, S.
b. Ironically, in reference to thrashing, punishment, etc.: Severely, soundly, ‘handsomely.’
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 100. Diogenes … tooke abrode thongue … and the same wel fauouredly bestowed about ye ribbes and pate of Midias.
1565. Kyng Daryus, 404 (Brandl). He wil not away til I canuis him wel fauoredly.
1579–80. North, Plutarch, Antonius (1595), 990. They them selues were oftentimes put to flight, and welfauoredly beaten.
1639. Fuller, Holy War, II. xxiv. (1640), 74. He would often give a smart jest,… and sometimes he was well-favouredly met with; as the best fencer in wits school hath now and then an unhappy blow dealt him.
1652. Heylyn, Cosmogr., II. 151. The [Russian] women … think themselves neither loved nor regarded, unlesse they be two or three times a day well favouredly swadled.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, I Swing’d him off, I lay’d on and beat him well-favoredly.
c. ? Lavishly, liberally.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 259/1. About the sute whereof when much monie was bestowed on both sides welfauoredlie.
d. By good fortune, happily. Sc.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Poems, Eclogue, 96. Whan I shoot my nose in, ten to ane If I weelfardly see my ane hearthstane.
