Add: I. graciously. Cf. hold; I :-- Hū holdlīce God spræc be his clǣnum þegenum, Hml. A. 22, 190. II. loyally. Cf. hold ; II :-- Befrān se cyning . . . ' Hwilce mēde hæfde Mardochēus for þām ꝥ hē swā holdlīce hogode embe mē ?' Ail rex: ' Quid pro hoc fide praemii Mardochaeus consecutus est?', Hml. A. 98, 218. Utan ǣnne cynehlāford holdlīce healdan, Ll. Th. i. 312, 21. Holdlīce hȳran, 314, II : Wlfst. 266, 8. Holdlīce (holdelīce, ), Chr. 1065; P. 194, 20. III. devoutly. Cf. hold; III :-- Holdlīce devote (but the text in Ald. 81, 29 is: Iuxta quod vestra vota devota sposponderunt), Wrt.Voc. ii. 88, 50: 27, 2. IV. in a friendly way. Cf. hold ; IV :-- Holdlīce affectuose, Wrt. Voc. ii. 4, 5. [N. E. D. holdely.] holdlice,hold-lice