a. (adv.) Now rare. [f. as prec. + -LY1 and 2.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to friars; resembling a friar; friar-like.
1549. Latimer, 5th Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 151. Thys is a fryerly fassion that wyll receyue no monye in theyr handes but wyll haue it put vpon theyr sleues.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. lxxxiv. 518. ye shall see a sort of these Frierly flatterers dispute of desertes with full mouth; and yet for all that, they bee men without God, without religion, wicked out of measure, and scorners of God.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 247–8. In his Friarly garments (habits of peace and pietie).
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, III. (1662), 125. He never set his name to his Books, but it may (according to the Frierly-Fancy) be collected out of the Capital Letters of his severall works.
1817. T. L. Peacock, Melincourt, II. 33.
| In life three ghostly friars were we, | |
| And now three friarly ghosts we be. |
1885. G. Meredith, Diana Crossways, II. vii. 159. We will supply you an omelette and piquette, and send you back sobered and friarly to Caen for Paris at sunset.
B. adv. In friarly fashion, after the manner of the friars.
a. 1631. Donne, Lett. to Sir R. H. (Alford), VI. 337. I never fettered nor imprisoned the word religion; not straightening it friarly, Ad religiones factitias.
