Obs. Also 3–5 bremly, 6 brimly: see BREME a. [f. BREME a. + -LY2.]
1. Fiercely, angrily; hence, in more general senses, as hotly, vehemently, strenuously, strongly.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 7606. For þis word was saul wrath, For oft sith was he bremli brath.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 948. Wel y vnderstande whider þe belaunce bremliest bouwes.
c. 1400. Ywaine & Gaw., 3163. The lioun bremely on tham blist.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. xii. 215. As he brymly thus inforcis fast To draw the speyr.
c. 1525. Skelton, Replyc., 221. Bremely with your bristels Ye cobble and ye clout Holy Scripture so about.
1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VIII. xliii. (1612), 207. On these doo vulgar Eares and Eyes so brimly waite and gaze.
2. Loudly, distinctly, shrilly.
c. 1340. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 569. Bryddez busken to bylde, & bremlych syngen.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 23. And briddes ful bremely on þe bowes singe.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 4108. Bremly the brethemen bragges in troumppes.
3. Brightly; clearly; evidently, distinctly.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1587), 618. The Lord will not … reueale himself and his glorie any whit more fully and brimly.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 62. My mother, the Godesse … most brimlye dyd offer Her self to visadge. Ibid., III. 75. At thee wyndoors … moonshyne brimlye dyd enter.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xxv. (Arb.), 311. A man sees better and discernes more brimly his collours.
