adv. [f. prec.]
† 1. Slowly, gently, gradually. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Melib., ¶ 51. Ye shul geten hem with-outen greet desir, by good leyser, sekyngly [v.r. sokyngly] and nat ouer hastily.
1434. Misyn, Mending Life, 119. Þo all we may not gedir our hartis to-gidyr as we wold, ȝit may we not leef, bot sokandly stody we to grawe, þat at þe last Ihesu criste may stabil vs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 463/2. Sokyngly, idem quod esyly.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph. (1877), 309. A mannes enemies in battaill, are to be ouercomed … sokingly one pece after an other.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, I. ii. 30. The heate of thaier sokyngly warmeth the cold ground.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, § xxiv. ¶ 5. 282. This is also call’d a Soft Pull; because it comes Soft, and Soakingly and easily down.
† b. On or with a slow fire. Obs.
c. 1450. Two Cookery-bks., 72. Lete hit boile sokingly on a faire charcole til hit be ynogh.
c. 1467. Noble Bk. Cookry (1882), 36. Rost it sokingly.
1530. Palsgr., 595/1. It is rosted sokyngly, il est cuit, or rosty tout a loysir.
1598. Epulario, B iv. Let it bake sokingly in the ouen till it be throughly baked.
1638. Shirley, Mart. Soldier, IV. ii. Oh! the Generall Belizarius for my money;… hee will roast soakingly within and without.
2. So as to saturate or drench.
In the 16th cent. quots. sense 1 may be implied.
1540. R. Jonas, trans. Roesslin’s Byrth Mankynde, I. iv. 19. Then with a sponge or other cloth dypped in the foresayde bathe, let her sokyngly washe her feet.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 521. The broth of Rapes is good for the same purpose, [the heels] being washed and bathed therein sokingly.
1842. Dickens, Amer. Notes (1850), 100/2. The driving rain, which now poured down more soakingly than ever.
b. fig. Deeply, profoundly.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., Wks. (Grosart), II. 63. You … may closely sitt, or sokingly ly at your bookes.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Jas. iv. 9. Savouringly and soakingly, with a deep and down right sorrow.
