Meanings
comparative more frolicly · superlative most frolicly
- obsoleteIn a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.
After some dys frolicly spent at Bath, he returned to his former temper
1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater2 more examples
Comming to ſee you, I was ſet upon, / I and my men, as we were ſinging frolickly, / Not dreaming of an ambuſh of baſe rogues, / Set on ith' forreſt, [...]
c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 74, column 2But, from a banquet that the Gods have blest In men whose spirits are frolicly inclin'd, Perform those rights that propagate thy kind.
1858, Richard Hooper (translator), Homer (original), Batrachomyomachia
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