adv. ? Obs. Also 3 smeðeliche, 4 smeþelyche, -lich, -ly, 4 smetheliche, 5 Sc. smeth(e)ly. [f. SMEETH a. + -LY2.] Smoothly.

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a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 356. Þeos meiden … smirkinde smeðeliche ȝef him þullich onswere.

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13[?].  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1789. Smeþely con he smyle.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 259. Þe kyng excused hym self smeþeliche.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. 5072 (Wemyss). And he, as bourdand, said smethly: ‘Man, will þov haif of me iusting’ [etc.].

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1808.  in Jamieson.

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