Obs. Forms: 1 syndriʓlice, Sc. 4 syndryly, 4–5 syndrely, 5 sindrely, syndryli; 4–6 sondrily, 6 -lie, 4 sundrylyche, 7 sundrily. [OE. syndriʓlíce: see SUNDRY and -LY2. Cf. SUNDERLY adv.]
1. Separately, severally, individually.
a. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., II. x. [xiii.] (1890), 164. He … syndriʓlice [v.r. synderlice] wæs fram him eallum friʓnende, hwylc [etc.].
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XII. 138. [They] held thair way in full gret hy, Nocht all to gidder bot syndrely.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 129. Sondrily to everich on [sc. star] A gras belongeth and a Ston.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., II. i. 127. Succedit to þat heretage Fourteyn ayris syndrely [v.r. sindrely].
1539. Act 31 Hen. VIII., c. 13 § 25. The same duke and lorde Cobham … shall … enjoye the premisses by them sundrily purchased.
2. Diversely, variously.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. vii. 1453. Off Murrawe and of þe Dowglasse … Sen syndry spekis syndryli [v.r. syndrely] I can noucht put þaim in story.
1576. T. Newton, Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 136. These humours being of great force divers wayes, and sundrily affecting the body.
