adv. arch. Forms: 4–5 angerliche, -irly, -yrly, -rely, 5 -arely, 6 -erlye, -erlie, 4– angerly. [f. ANGER sb. + -LY2. This supposes an earlier use of angerly, angerlic as adj., as in ON. angrligr sad, painful.]
† 1. With trouble or pain; hurtfully, painfully. Obs.
1327–1485. in Wright, Pol. Poems, I. 323. The kings law wol no man deme Angerliche without answere.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 292. For that he with anger wrought His anger angerliche he bought.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 3511. Gret wrong ye do To worche this man so mych woo, Or pynen him so angerly.
† b. Furiously. (Somet. intensive, like mod. ‘terribly, awfully.’) Cf. ANGARDLY, and ON. ágjarnliga. Obs.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VIII. 486. Thai so angirly on thame socht, That of thame all eschapit nane.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, XI. 6483. Armyt at all peces, angarly mony. Ibid., XV. 6998. Issit out of þe ost angarely fast.
2. With anger or resentment. (Since 17th c. replaced by ANGRILY; but used as an archaism by some 19th-c. poets.)
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pars. T., ¶ 510. Than wol he be angry and answere hokerly and angerly [v.r. angrily, -yrly, -rely].
c. 1450. Henryson, Mor. Fables, 78. Then angerly the Wolfe vpon him cryes.
1557. N. T. (Genev.), Mark iii. 5. He loked rounde about on them angerly.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., I. ii. 62. How angerly I taught my brow to frowne.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., xxvi. 263. Fathers will speak loudest … and look angerliest, that intend not the severest correction.
1641. ‘Smectymnuus,’ Vind. Answ. Humb. Rem., § 6. 89. Let him take it never so angerly.
1721. Mrs. Centlivre, Gamester, ii. 149. I am not to be us’d so angerly.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, i. 14. A mother never is afraid Of speaking angerly to any child.
¶ as adj.: Angry.
1814. Byron, in Moore, Life (1866), 244. Was angerly, but tried to conceal it.
