a. [f. FRIEND + -LIKE.] Like a friend or friends, friendly.
1559. W. Cunningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, 171. The nature of the people more ciuill, frindlyke, wise, learned, & apter vnto warres then they of Afrike, & Asia.
1596. Drayton, Leg. Matilda, lviii.
| But soone my Soule had gath’red vp her Powers, | |
| Which in this need might, friendlike, giue her ayd. |
a. 1721. Prior, Erle Robert’s Mice, 35.
| Reply’d the friendlike Peer, I weene, | |
| Matthew is angred on the Spleene. |
