a. Now rare. [f. YOUTH + -LY1. In OE. ʓeoʓuplíc; cf. OHG. jugundlîh.]
1. Pertaining to or characteristic of youth: = YOUTHFUL 2.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., V. vi. (1890), 398. Ic ne wæs min mod fulfremedlice bewerʓende þæm ʓeoʓuðlicum unalefednessum.
a. 1536. Wyatt, Love’s Arraignm., v. Alwayes whetting my youthely desyer on the cruell whetstone tempered with fier.
1577. Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist., VIII. xii. 152. Two doughters,… which passed all other in … youthly comlines.
1590. Spenser, Muiop., 431. And all his yougthly forces idly spent.
1685. Burnet, Trav., iii. (1687), 97. Pope Nicolas the IV. who had … a youthly and womanish face.
1817. Shelley, To Wm. Shelley, 14. To a blighting faith and a cause of crime They have bound them slaves in youthly prime.
2. Having youth or the characteristics of youth: = YOUTHFUL 1.
1566. Painter, Pal. Pleas., I. Pref. 8. Faulting fooles and youthly heades.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. ii. 40. All that youthly rout.
a. 1629. Hinde, J. Bruen, xxxvii. (1641), 116. This Master Done being young and youthly.
1767. Mickle, Concub., I. xxxiii. While thus the Knight persewd the Shaddow Joy As youthly Spirits thoughtlesse led the Way.
1856. Chamb. Jrnl., 8 Nov., 301/2. He was very handsome, and, although still something too youthly in figure, had a frame well knit and active.
So † Youthly adv. Obs. = YOUTHFULLY.
1541. Paynell, Conspir. Catil., 1 b. With men of sadnesse he lyued soberly,… with youth youthely.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, VII. 131. Paris … youthly thus doth answere him.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. 590. His heunly moother amended His bush with trimming, his sight was yoouthlye bepurpled.
