a. rare. [OE. brýdelíc nuptial, f. brýd, BRIDE: the 16th-c. word may have been formed anew, as ‘bridely’ in sense of ‘bride-like,’ might possibly be said now.] Nuptial, bridal.
a. 1100. Cott. Cleop. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 388 (also 530). Dramate, þa brydelican ʓewrite.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., I. (1593), 16. The bond of bridelie bed.
1567. Turberv., Ovid’s Epist., 71. In spousal bande and bridely knot be tyde.
