straightly

adv

Etymology: From Middle English streightly, streightli, streiȝtli, equivalent to straight + -ly.

1. In a straight manner; without curve or bend.
2. Without deviation; directly.

   “[…] I was directing my course towards it, as straightly and as speedily as the windings of a very indifferent road would permit, […]”

3. Immediately; straightaway.

   “[W]hẽ the vnclene ſpritꝭ ſawe him⸝ they fell doune before him⸝ and cryed ſayinge: thou arte the ſonne of God: And he ſtreyghtly charged thẽ that they ſhulde not vtter him.”

   “After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.”