ardlice

Old English

Adverb

arodlīċe

1. quickly

   Synonym: hraþe

2. immediately
   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil:

     God sylf ġesēah ða ðæt hit gōd was swā, and hēt ðā eorðan ardlīċe spryttan growende gærs and ðā grēnan wyrta mid heora āgenum sǣde...ðā wyrta sōna wynsumlīċe grēowon mid meniġfealdum blōstmum mislīċe ġeblēode.

     God himself saw that it was very good, and ordered the earth to immediately sprout forth growing grass and the green herbs with their own seeds...and the plants soon grew pleasantly with manyfold blossoms of various colors.

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ardlíce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.