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ˈusefully, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a useful manner; so as to be of use; to a useful end; beneficially, profitably, serviceably.
1634Massinger Very Woman iii. ii, Serve usefully, Serve all with diligence. 1656Cowley Davideis iii. 281 How the kind Sun usefully comes and goes. 1711Steele Spect. No. 145 ⁋2 You cannot employ yourself more usefully. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxx. III. 175 Whose arms would have been more usefully employed to maintain the Roman limits. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. v. §3. 357 The notices of topography come in here, usefully, to illustrate the obscurity of history. 1868Kinglake Crimea III. 144 It was hardly one which could be usefully submitted to a numerous assembly. |