illy

(il’i), adv. [KX ill, a., + -ly2.] In an ill or evil manner; not well; unsatisfactorily; ill. [Iily, though correctly formed from the adjective il, is re = common or good use, the adverb il being preerred. ] How illy they [the Papists] digested it may be seen by this pa age. Strype, Memorials, i, 2. Whereby they might see how illy they were served. R. Knox (Arher's Eng. Garner, I. 366). Thou dost deem That I have ily spared so large a band, Disabling from pursuit our weaken’d troops. Southey.