Obs. [OE. lustlíce: see LUST sb. and -LY2.]

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  1.  With pleasure or delight; gladly, willingly.

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971.  Blickl. Hom., 47. Þæt hi Sunnandaʓum & mæssedaʓum Godes cyrican ʓeorne secan, & þær þa godcundan lare lustlice ʓehyran.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gram., xliv. (Z.), 264. Libenter, lustlice.

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c. 1275.  Prov. Alfred, 212, in O. E. Misc., 115. Þus quad Alfred: Lustlike lustine [v.r. lustnie].

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[c. 1430, 1500–20, a. 1533.  see LUSTILY adv. 1.]

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  2.  Voluptuously; lustfully.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 318/1. Lustly (K. lustili), voluptuose.

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c. 1440.  Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), I. lxxii. Yf he falle … eyther by excesse of tomoche etyng or to often or to gredely or to lustly & delicatly or tosone in untyme.

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[1520:  see LUSTILY adv. 3.]

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1598.  Grenewey, Tacitus’ Ann., II. x. (1622), 48. Tiberius thought it better, that the yong man lustlie giuen, by the wanton laciuiousnesse of the citie, should bee better fashioned in the campe.

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  3.  Lustily, vigorously.

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[a. 1479:  see LUSTILY adv. 2.]

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1529.  More, Dyaloge, I. Wks. 136/2. Forth he lymped on three legges so lustly, yt his maysters horse wt four fete, could scant ouertake him.

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a. 1533.  Frith, Another Bk. agst. Rastell, C ix b. Rastell … plaieth me the bal lustlye ouer the corde.

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[1535:  see LUSTILY adv. 2.]

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1546.  Bp. Gardiner, Declar. Art. Joye, 31. The unlerned arrogant reader wyl here waxe angry … and … go lustly forth to proue me a foole.

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