Fiendly a.

[OE. féondlic, f. féond, FIEND + -lic, -LY¹.]

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† 1. Hostile, unfriendly. Obs.

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After the OE. period perh. always with mixture of sense 2.

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c. 1050. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 168. Hosticus, uel hostilis, feondlic.

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c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 107. [W]e maȝen þurh godes fulste þa fondliche sunnan mid icompe ouercuman.

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c. 1205. Lay., 8659.

	And hee fusde heom to
	mid feondliche strengðe.

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c. 1386. Chaucer, Can. Yeom. Prol. & T., 750.

	He semed frendly, to hem that knew him nought,
	But he was fendly, both in werk and thought.

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1470–85. Malory, Arthur, XVI. xvi. He ranne vpon his broder as a fendly man, & gaf hym suche a stroke that he made hym stoupe.

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a. 1529. Skelton, Image Hypocr., 346.

	To feyne yourselves frindley,
	And be nothinge but fyndly.

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2. Resembling or befitting a fiend; fiendlike, devilish, diabolical.

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c. 1386. Chaucer, Can. Yeom. Prol. & T., 605.

	And whyle he bisy was, this feendly wrecche,
	This fals chanoun, the foule feend him fecche!
	Out of his bosom took a bechen cole,
	In which ful subtilly was maad an hole.

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c. 1422. Hoccleve, Jereslaus’ Wife, 783.

	Be nat abassht, it manly is to synne,
	But feendly is longe lye ther-ynne.

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1470–85. Malory, Arthur, XI. i. Sir launcelot lyfte vp the tombe, and there came out an horryble & a fyendly dragon spyttynge fyre oute of his mouthe.

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c. 1510. Barclay, The Mirrour of Good Manners (1570), G v.

	Composing their lyes oft times craftily
	Supplanteth good people and men of honestie,
	This is their chiefe study and findly pollicy.

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1562. Phaer, Æneid, VIII. Y j b. Cacus fiendly sprite.

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1801. Southey, Thalaba, IX. xxvii.

	‘Curse thee! curse thee!’ cried the fiendly woman,
	‘Hast thou yet a spell of safety?’

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1818. Shelley, Rev. Islam, VIII. xxi.

	Yes, it is Hate, that shapeless fiendly thing
	Of many names, all evil, some divine,
	Whom self-contempt arms with a mortal sting.

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1831. J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ, in Blackw. Mag., XXX. 554. You talk as if you suspected the Peers of having profited by the FIENDLY ADVICE, and really got rid of their old mulish repugnance to the idea of cutting their own throats.

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Hence Fiendliness, the state of being fiendly.

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1860. Lit. Churchm., VI. 264/1. The ferocious fiendliness to which the whole … population had been brought.

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