endebyrdlice

Old English

Etymology

From endebyrd +‎ -līċe.

Adverb

endebyrdlīċe

1. orderly
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     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.

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “endebyrdlíce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.