adv. arch. Forms: 5 ȝarely, ȝarle, -ly, 6 yeerlie, 7–9 yarely. [OE. ʓearolíce: see YARE a. and -LY2, and cf. OS. garolîko, OHG. garalîhho (MHG. garlîche).] Quickly, promptly; nimbly, briskly; † diligently; YARE adv. in various senses.
a. 900. Cynewulf, Elene, 288. Ic þæt ʓearolice onʓiten hæbbe.
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 1035. Outhire macches ȝow maynly þerto … Or ȝefes ȝarely vp þe ȝerde & ȝeld me þe cite.
1573–80. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 144. Actes lawles to doo without feare, how yeerlie togither they band.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., II. ii. 216. The Silken Tackle, Swell with the touches of those Flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. Ibid. (1610), Temp., I. i. 4. Fall too ’t, yarely, or we run our selues a ground.
1627. J. Smith, in J. Taylor (Water P.), Armado, A 8. This new Fleete runnes ouer Seas and Lands, And ’s now so victua’ld, rigd and yarely plyes.
1668. Dryden, Even. Love, V. i. (1671), 77. Come yarely my mates, every man to his share of the burthen.
a. 1681. T. Raymond, Autobiog. (Camden, 1917), 29. In London great out-cryes about this tyme [c. 1631] against shom [sic] whoe they called Armynians as if shom of that opinion intended yarely to introduce Poperie.
1812. W. Tennant, Anster F., IV. ix. Till … The younker Curtius … Down headlong yarely gallop’d, horse and all.
1827. Carlyle, Germ. Rom., I. 186. The Count … kept plunging, yarely, through the ranks.
[1897. Ld. Tennyson, Tennyson, II. 133, note. He revived many fine old words which had fallen into disuse: and I heard him regret that he had never employed the word ‘yarely.’]
