Meanings
adverbheedily (comparative more heedily, superlative most heedily)
comparative more heedily · superlative most heedily
- obsoleteHeedfully; attentively.
if heedily he endevour to measure and count them, he shall finde that what he did by nature and chance, he cannot doe it so exactly by desseign.
, II.17
Origin
- Englishheed
- Englishheedy
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishheedily
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