Obs. Forms: 1 suundor-, sundurlice, synderlice, 2–3 sunderliche, (4 sinderliche, sundirly, 5 sondir-, sondre-, 6 sonder-, soondre-, sundur-, sundrely), 5–8 sunderly. [OE. sundorlíce and synderlíce: see SUNDER a. and -LY2. Cf. NFris. sannerlik especially, MLG. sunderliken, - likes, OHG. suntarlîhho, sunterlîcho (MHG. sunter-, sunderlîche(n), G. sanderlich). Cf. SUNDRILY adv.]
1. Separately, apart; individually; singly.
c. 888. Ælfred, Boeth., xli. § 5. He hine onʓit þurh þa eaʓan synderlice,… þurh ʓesceadwisnesse synderlice [etc.].
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark vii. 33. Seorsum, sundurlice. Ibid., xiii. 3. Separatim, suundorlice.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxiii. 625. Þa hine synderlice ælc man beheold.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 11. Þer weren in þer oðres tables sunderliche .iii. ibode.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 90. Nu ich habbe sunderliche ispeken of þeos þreo limes—of eien, & of muðe, & of earen.
c. 1320. Cast. Love, 1508. Þauȝ vche nome of þise þre Be sinderliche seyd.
1490. in Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 111. In wytnesse wherof the partyes aforsayde to this endenturs, sunderly hath sett ther seales.
1528. More, Dyaloge, III. Wks. 355/2. I … haue also dyuers and manye times sunderlye talked with almost all such.
1542–3. Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII., c. 17 § 3. Our … Soveraigne Lorde … hathe soondrelye and severallye giuen and graunted unto the saide Bisshopps, divers and soondrye Manoures.
a. 1631. Sir R. Cotton, Abridgm. Rec. Tower (1657), 362. The King … declared, that they [sc. the Commons] were sunderly bound to him.
1635. Swan, Spec. Mundi, vii. § 3 (1643), 347. Seeing they be laid downe severally, it is fit they be explained sunderly.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 108. Every whole being greater than its parts, taken sunderly.
2. Singularly, specially. rare.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. xxiv. (1899), 480/1. On þysse abbudissan mynstre wæs sum broðor synderlice mid godcundre ʓyfe ʓemæred.
1481. Caxton, Reynard, xxviii. (Arb.), 70. My wyf his sondrely wyse.
3. Diversely, differently, variously. rare.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. (1811), 640. Of this Charlys sundrye wryters sunderly wryte.
4. Dispersedly, widely. rare.
1541. St. Papers Hen. VIII., I. 681. Commen brutes and rumours, which be sunderly spred here.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 364 b/1. That good thing which by ye almighty God is sonderly dispensed to diuers.
