Obs. Forms: 1 sundorlic, synderlic, 2–3 sunderlich, 4 sunderly, 5 sonderly, sondrely. [OE. sundorlic (also synderlic), f. sundor: see SUNDER a. + -lic -LY1, Cf. (M)LG. sunderlik, OHG. suntarlîh (MHG., G. sonderlich), ON. sundrligr. Cf. SUNDRILY a.]
1. Peculiar, special, private.
c. 888. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxiii. § 5. Seo ʓesceadwisnes … is synderlic cræft þære saule. Ibid. (c. 897), Gregory’s Past. C., lii. 409. Ðæm is sundorlic sang to singanne.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 91. Ne heore nan nefden sunderlich ehte.
2. Separate, several; distinct, diverse, different.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 14. Euerich dole wiðute moncglunge spekeð al bi himsulf of sunderliche þincges.
a. 1400. Gloss., in Rel. Ant., I. 9. Singulus, i. unus per se, sunderly.
c. 1425. Found. St. Bartholomew’s (E.E.T.S.), 16. Three men … sonderly went to sonderly Bishops of the See of Rome.
1481. Caxton, Myrr., II. ix. 88. The meruayllous trees that growe in ynde … ben many dyuerse and bere sondrely fruyt.
