Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of broil.

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Examples

  • Saint Silvester, where be nuns of an hundred orders: and it is yet all broilly, as though it were half-burnt, for the Emperor Julianus above-said, of his cursedness and malice, let burn that part with the other bones, and yet it sheweth; and this thing hath been proved both by popes and by emperors.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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