Obs. or dial. Forms: see WOOD a. [OE. wódlíce: see WOOD a. and -LY2.] Madly, ferociously, furiously, wildly, passionately.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 230. Hi wæron … mid deofle afyllede, ðaða hi swa wodlice to ðam welwillendan Hælende spræcon.
c. 1000. trans. Basil’s Admon., vi. (Norman, 1849), 46. Ðam wulfe ʓelic de wodlice abiteð ða … sceap.
c. 1000. in Assmann, Hom. (1889), 6/145. Þam unðeawfæstum, ðe wodlice drincað and heora ʓewitt amyrrað.
c. 1205. Lay., 3201. He mochul a þa wodeloker wilnede þeos mæidenes.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 9426. King Margaras … Ban asailed wodeliche.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 550. Þat i wrouȝt so wodly & wold to him speke.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 1752, Lucrece. Desyr That in his herte brende as any fer So wodly that his wit is al forgetyn.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 2827. Wyes … appone wyght horsez, Walopande wodely.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 3694. The wyndes full wodely wackont anon.
a. 1500. Hist. K. Boccus & Sydracke (? 1510), P iv b. Yf he loue one wodly.
1556. Olde, Antichrist, 163. Antichrist layeth about him so woodly.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Anagr. & Sonn., Wks. II. 251/1. He rose … And frantickly ran woodly through the wood.
1725. Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., V. iii. They skelpit me when woodly fleid.
