a. Obs. Forms: 3 forthlich, 4 forthely. [f. FORTH adv. + -LY1.] Healthy, likely to live; also, full of energy.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 35. Ȝif hit wel iborn is & þuncheð wel forðlich, fearlac of his lure is anan wið him iboren.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 160. Felawes were þei alle, als forthely as he.
