halfly

English

Adverb

halfly

1. (obsolete) Half.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:

     So holy that him there, they halfely deifide.

   • 1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter VI, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert Boulter, […], →OCLC, page 167:

     [S]eeing that Gods all-fillingneſs cannot be halv'd, but is vvhat is is vvholly, and this is vvhat it is halfly, it follovvs, That becauſe this Being cannot reach half of it, or all of it, it can reach none at all of it.