adv. [f. FRESH a. + -LY2.] In a fresh manner.
1. Newly; lately; recently. (Now only with ppl. adjs.)
c. 1325. Body & Soul, 255, in Map’s Poems (Camden), 343.
| Whoder thouȝtest thou fere, | |
| That were thus freshliche from me gon? |
1480. Caxton, Descr. Brit., 56. Kyng harry the seconde was tho new comen in to Irlonde fresshly after the martirdome of seint Thomas of Caunterbury.
1610. Shaks., Temp., V. i. 236.
| Where we, in all our trim, freshly beheld | |
| Our royall, good, and gallant Ship. |
1648. Boyle, Seraph. Love, xxvi. (1700), 159. Since then (as I freshly intimated) I cannot but fear that your tir’d Patience, as well as my urgent Occasions, (though these will recall me to morrow Morning to my own Western Hermitage) doth at present summon me to leave you.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1721), Add. 3. The River seemed to be lately fallen very suddenly; for the banks were freshly wet, two yards and more above the water.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxviii.
| Yells the mad crowd o’er entrails freshly torn, | |
| Nor shrinks the female eye, nor ev’n affects to mourn. |
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., II. 276. The conditional excommunication of the king was then freshly published.
b. Anew, afresh. Now rare.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 508. He bled freshly.
1617. Wither, Fidelia Juvenilia (1633), 458.
| So oft, vntill (as seeming to forget | |
| We were departing) downe againe we set; | |
| And freshly in that sweet discourse went on, | |
| Which now I almost faint to thinke vpon. |
1892. Bookman, III. Oct., 27/2. That M. Zola, too, is generally on his good behaviour in these lighter efforts is of course an additional reason for freshly introducing him under their wing to English readers.
2. With unabated or renewed vigor. † Also fiercely, eagerly (obs.).
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 1189.
| þan wiȝtly boute mo wordes · william ginnes ride, | |
| fresly toward here fos · as frek out of witte. |
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VII. 165.
| And thai rostyt in hy thar mete | |
| And fell rycht freschly for till ete. |
14[?]. Fencing w. Two-Handed Sword, in Rel. Ant., I. 309.
| Fresly smyte thy strokis by dene, | |
| And hold wel thy lond that hyt may be sene. |
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 121. The trees & flowres dyd … sprynge moost fresshly.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 818/1. Three score archers shot freshlie at their enimies.
1598. Stow, Surv., 348. He was so freshly pursued, that for feare he tooke the church of S. George in Southwarke, and challenged priuiledge of Sanctuary there.
1678. Dryden & Lee Œdipus, IV. Wks. 1883, VI. 205.
| Fate seem’d to wind him up for fourscore years; | |
| Yet freshly ran he on ten Winters more: | |
| Till, like a Clock worn out with eating time, | |
| The Wheels of weary life at last stood still. |
1849. W. M. W. Call, Reverberat., I. 8.
| And again the life-tree freshlier springs, | |
| And again stand forth the true old kings. |
1881. Swinburne, Mary Stuart, II. ii. 82.
| I would sleep | |
| On this strange news of thine, that being awake | |
| I may the freshlier front my sense thereof | |
| And thought of life or death. |
b. With respect to the wind: Briskly; with considerable force.
1399. Political Poems (Rolls), I. 415.
| They bente on a bonet, | |
| and bare a topte saile | |
| affor the wynde ffresshely, | |
| to make a good ffare. |
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., xcv.
| And [a breeze] gathering freshlier overhead, | |
| Rock’d the full-foliaged elms, and swung | |
| The heavy-folded rose, and flung | |
| The lilies to and fro, and said. |
1885. Manch. Exam., 10 Sept., 5/5. It has been blowing freshly from W-S-W.
3. With undiminished intensity, purity, distinctness, etc.
c. 1369. Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 1227.
| Ever to be stedfast and trewe, | |
| And love hir alwey fresshly newe. |
1660. Cowley, His Majesties Restoration, iv.
| That Name of Cromwell, which does freshly still | |
| The Courses of so many sufferers fill. |
1720. Pope, Iliad, XVIII. 621.
| One held a living Foe, that freshly bled | |
| With new-made Wounds; another dragg’d a dead. |
1888. Burgon, Lives of Twelve Good Men, I. Preface, ix. While yet the man lives freshly in the memory of his fellows.
4. With fresh appearance, odor, etc.
1600. Shaks., As You Like It, III. ii. 243. Looks he as freshly, as he did the day he Wrastled?
1819. Byron, Juan, II. clxix.
| And every morn his colour freshlier came, | |
| And every day help’d on his convalescence, | |
| ’T was well, because health in the human frame | |
| Is pleasant, besides being true love’s essence. |
1883. Stevenson, Treasure Isl., III. xiv. The air too smelt more freshly than down beside the marsh.
† 5. Gaily, with magnificence. Obs.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 6206.
| A chariot … | |
| fframet ouer fresshly with frettes of perle. |
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, III. i. So they rode fresshly with grete royalte.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. xvi. 16. There were ladyes and damozelles freshly apparayled redy to haue daunced.
6. Comb. with pa. pples., as freshly-blown, -fallen, -named, -opened adjs.
1661. Boyle, Spring of Air, II. iv. (1682), 49. The one is, that the freshly-nam’d Mr. Townley, and divers ingenious Persons that assisted at the Tryal, bethought themselves of so making the Torricellian Experiment at the top of the Hill, as to leave a determinate quantity of Air in the Tube, before the mouth of it was open’d under the vessell’d Mercury.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. iv. 34. Compare the colour of the light transmitted by a column of the lake water fifteen feet long with that transmitted by a second column, of the same length, derived from the melting of freshly fallen mountain snow.
1861. L. L. Noble, After Icebergs, 140. Scattered tints of new straw, freshly blown lilacs, young peas, pearl and blue intermingled.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. lxi. 216. She had dried her brow and looked out like a freshly-opened flower from among the dewy tresses of the woodland.
