fastly

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English fastly, fastliche, festliche, from Old English fæstlīċe (“firmly, constantly”), from Proto-West Germanic *fastulīkē, from Proto-West Germanic *fastulīkê (“securely, firmly”); equivalent to fast ‎ -ly.

Adverb

fastly (comparative more fastly, superlative most fastly)

In a secure or firm manner; securely
Synonyms: fast, firmly, securely, tightly

We tied the rope fastly this time; we didn't want it to get away again.
- 1843, Thomas Archer, Roderick Dhu, Clan Alpine's Chief, or, the Scottish outlaw:
  Before them was a door which apparently led into the grand apartments; this was fastly secured, but it yielded to their united strength, and they entered a lofty hall, whose concave top was supported by pillars.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fastliche, fastly; equivalent to fast ‎ -ly.

Adverb

fastly (comparative more fastly, superlative most fastly)

(now nonstandard) quickly
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signatures K2, recto – K2, verso:
  A reuerend man that graz’d his cattell ny, / Sometime a bluſterer that the ruffle knew / Of Court of Cittie, and had let go by / The ſwifteſt houres obſerued as they flew, / Towards this afflicted fancy faſtly drew: / And priuiledg’d by age deſires to know / In breefe the grounds and motiues of her wo.
- a. 1661, Isaac Tullie, A Narrative of the Siege of Carlisle, in 1644 and 1645. […], Whitehaven, Cumbria: Michael Moon’s Bookshop, published 1840 (1988 facsimile), →ISBN, page 13:
  Another time, my Mother seeing them come fastly to her house, my brother gave the key of his desk to my sister, bidding her convey the money somewhither; […]
- 1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Rope”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 1031, column 1:
  Rope, Cord, or Strap, in the Manage, is any of theſe tied round a Pillar to which the Horſe is faſtned when they begin to quicken and ſupple and teach him to flee from the Shambner, and not gallop faſtly or incompactly.
- a. 1807, Henry Kirke White, “Written in the Prospect of Death”, in The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, […], volume II, London: […] [F]or Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; […] by W. Wilson, published 1808, page 84:
  Yes, ’tis the hand / Of death I feel press heavy on my vitals, / Slow sapping the warm current of existence. / My moments now are few—The sand of life / Ebbs fastly to its finish.
- 1859, Kinahan Cornwallis, chapter IX, in A Panorama of the New World. […], volume I, London: T[homas] C[autley] Newby, […], page 207:
  During these twelve days the life of the child was fastly on the wane; and all this time Emily tended him with an assiduity and tender solicitude that never flagged.
- 1885, The Missionary Herald of the Baptist Missionary Society, page 162:
  Determined in his death, and chasing him, he ran fastly to the 'Mission House,' and under Mrs. Richardson's bed he was sheltered and saved.
- 1930, Stella Benson, chapter II, in The Far-away Bride, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, pages 31–32:
  Seryozha went to the house of Alexei Vassileievitch, and there he was—the saddlemaker, you remember?—making bets with all his friends that he could drink more beer more fastly than they could drink.
- 1990, Shailendra Jha, Agricultural labour: present position and problems, legislations, and governmental steps, measures for upliftment:
  This trend continued upto^[sic] the close of the Second World War, although the price index moved fastly.
- 2011, Raj Kumar Singh, Contemporary India with Controversial Neighbours, page 264:
  The turn of events moved fastly in Nepal at the close of the century and thereafter as well.