Old English · adverb
endebyrdlice
- Part of speech
- adverb
Meaning
orderly
Swīðe endebyrdlīce þū hyt recst, ac ic þē wille secgan ġēt þēah hwæs [ic] þǣr fæstlīce ġelȳfe [and] ymb hwæt ic þǣr ġȳt twēoge.
Very orderly thou dost explain it, but I will yet say to thee what I firmly believe, and about what I yet doubt.
late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquiesordinal
Etymology
From either endebyrd + -līċe or endebyrdlīċ + -e.
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