gesceadlice

Old English

Etymology

From gescead +‎ -līċe.

Adverb

ġescēadlīċe

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

     Ful gescēadlīce ðū mē andswarast and ful rihte.

     Very reasonably thou dost answer me and very rightly.

References

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