a. Obs. [f. FRIEND sb. or v. + -FUL.] Friendly, well-disposed, loving.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, Vincencius, 173.

        Þar-for so frendful ma nane be
to me as þu, in ony degre.

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c. 1470.  Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, IX. 1381.

        And till a hous, quhar he was wont to ken,
A wedow duelt was frendfull till our men.

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a. 1509.  Hen. VII., in Antiq. Rep. (1808), II. 321, note. The dedly corruption did utterly overcom the pure and frendfull blod.

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1570.  G. Buchanan, Admonitioun to the Trew Lordis, Wks. (1892), 36. Remember yat he schew him self neuir mair freindfull and succurabill to na people yan he hes done to ȝow.

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  Hence † Friendfully adv., in a friendly manner.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, Placidas, 658.

        For out of þe tonn he hyme met,
& þare ful frendfylly hym gret.

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c. 1450.  Golagros & Gaw., 1172.

        Cumly knightis, in this cace I mak you request,
Freyndfully, but falsset, or ony fenyeing,
That ye wald to me, treuly and traist,
Tell your entent.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., III. 329.

        Thir governouris to purpois than tuke
Richt freindfullie to deliuer this duke
To his fredome.

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