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underˈstandingly, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a comprehending or intelligent manner; with understanding. † Also, so as to be understood.
a1340Hampole Psalter xlviii. 12 For he wroght not vndir⁓standan[d]ly he is likynd..til vnwise bestis in vnwisdome. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 101 Besily and vnderstandandly y amonest þe, and gyues þe good conseill. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Entendiblement, vnderstandingly, learnedly. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandects 55 It is more plainlie and understandinglie opened by hime in these wordes. 1649F. Roberts Clavis Bibl. 46 Still fix your thought upon the Occasion and Scope of every Book, when you would peruse them understandingly. 1697Humfrey Righteousn. God i. 6 This Learned Man hath..understandingly exprest the very thing as it is. 1754Edwards Freedom Will iv. viii. 248 A Work of his almighty Power,..upheld understandingly, and on Design, as much as if no other had been made but that. 1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 154 His was one of those clear eyes which see beauty understandingly. 1850Fraser's Mag. XLI. 524 The young people began to look very understandingly at each other. 1890M. E. Wilkins Far-away Melody 16 They had studied the Bible faithfully, if not understandingly. |