specialli
Middle English
Alternative forms
- specialle, specially, speciali, spessialli, specialeke, speceali; spacialliche (Kentish)
Etymology
special + -ly.
Adverb
specialli
- specially, especially
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 15-16:
- And specially from every shires ende / Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
- And specially from every shire's end / Of England they to Canterbury went,
- 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pp. 40–41:
- And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew. And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.
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Descendants
- English: specially
- Scots: specialy, specially
References
- “speciā̆llī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.