a. Obs. Also 5 sawly. [f. SOUL sb. + -Y1.]
1. Of or pertaining to the soul.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 96. If þe sawle be þanne perfyt and fulfillyd byfore his departynge fro þe body, it shall þanne be ressayued of all sawly vertu.
1727. J. Asgill, Metamorph. Man, I. v. 71. That Souly Part of him … which is thought to survive the Body, and to take its Flight to Heaven.
2. = PSYCHICAL a. 2. (Cf. SOULISH a. 1.).
1639. H. Ainsworth, Annot. Pentateuch, 10. This animalitie, or souly state, shall be changed into spirituality. As for the terme of this our souly or naturall life, it dureth while our breath is in us.
1660. Newton, Comm. John xvii. (Nichol, 1867), 371. The animal man, the souly man … perceives not these things.
