Obs. rare. [OE. wódlic: see WOOD a. and -LY1.] Mad, frantic, furious.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 182. Sa eadiʓa Benedictus … manode þone reðan ehtere þæt he ðære wodlican reðnysse ʓeswice.
c. 1422. Hoccleve, Learn to Die, 700. The fyry flaumbes … In which the soules brenne in woodly wyse.
1513. Bradshaw, St. Werburge, II. 789. Roryng and yellyng his outragious trespase, [he] Tore his longe a-sonder in wodely violence.
