scortlice

Old English

Alternative forms
  • sċeortlīċe

Etymology

From sċort +‎ -līċe.

Adverb

sċortlīċe

  1. (of time) shortly, before long, soon.
  2. (of speech, narrative, etc.) shortly, briefly, compendiously.

Descendants

References
  • scortlíce in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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