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Alluterly, Aluterly, adv. Also: all vterly, alluterlie, -lye; all wtirly, allutirle, -lie, -ly, allut(h)yrle;— aluterlie, alwterly, alvtherlie, alutirlie; — all(e)utterly, -lie, allwtterly, alluttirlie; alutterly, al vttirly;— all wttrely, all vtrel(l)y, alvttrely;— all wtraly, all vtrali, allvtrally; al vtralye, alvtraly. [ME. allouterly, allutterly (c 1375), f. All adv. and Uterly adv. After early 15th c. only in Sc. use, and common then till 1600.] Wholly, completely, entirely, absolutely.(a) 1375 Barb. xiv. 154 (he wist all wtirly that … ). 1456 Hay I. 37/21 (sa was the citee destroyit alluterly). 1488 Acts II. 207/2 (secludit aluterly fra the saidis officis). 1535 Stewart 24761 (alluterlie allane). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1272 (the hole warld corruptit was alluterlye). a1578 Pitsc. I. 32/20 (alluterlie deiectit and cassin down). 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. 39 (the king alluterlie dischargis this consuetude). 1622-6 Bisset II. 352/1 (alluterlie inradged).(b) 1481 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 411 (A. has referrit this actione aluterly to my lord). 1497 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 611 (to be alvterly frustrat). 1513 Doug. iv. vi. 99 (aluterly dissauyt); v. vii. 82 (reffusvng aluterly). 1533 Bell. Livy I. 17/14 (that the successioun suld aluterly expire). 1554 Misc. Bann. C. III. 83 (seuerit aluterlie fra science of lettres). a1578 Pitsc. I. 157/28 (quhilk aluterlie I will affirme). 1596 Dalr. I. 95/24 (vnchanget aluterlie). 1638 Rothes Affairs Kirk 122 (aluterlie impossible).(c) 1461 Liber Plusc. I. 398 (efter the terme of law al vttirly). 1479 Acta Conc. 34/1 (the declaracion standis alutterly apoun … ). 1551 Hamilton Cat. 62 (sweir nocht alutterly). a1578 Pitsc. I. 15/1 (seand justice allutterlie suppressed). 1605 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 268 (allutterlie to decay). 1685 Corshill Baron Ct. 169 (abused the same alutterly).(d) 1389 Wemyss Chart. II. 23 (has al vttrely ratyfyit and confermyt). c1420 Wynt. ii. Prol. 12 C (war myskende all wttrely); v. 4700 C (he forsuyk thaim al wttrely). 1456 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 10 (the qwhilk actioun A. allvtrelly denyit). 1487 Brus xv. 291 C (thai war abasit all vtrely).(e) c1420 Wynt. ii. Prol. 12 (mvskende all wtraly). 1453 Reg. Dunferm. 341 (all vtrali excludit). 1472 Lennox Mun. 83 (be excludvte al vtralye). 1490 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. vi. 28 (alvtraly and clerly to the vtilitie of … ). 1518 Fife Sheriff Ct. 135 (quhilkis crimes Williame denyit alwtraly).