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auˈthentically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
†1. With authority, authoritatively; with legal validity, in proper legal form. Obs.
1577G. Harvey Letter-bk. (1884) 56 A former Composition solemely and autentically agreid uppon. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. viii. (1821) 262 To declare his mind authentically to them, and dictate what his truth was. 1757Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. Wks. X. 286 Now for the first time authentically known by the name of England. 1798W. Taylor in Month. Rev. XXVII. 501 Its promises are more authentically proclaimed.
2. With evidence of truth or certainty, so as to be accepted or relied upon; credibly.
1590C. S. Right Relig. 26 How can they proue those counsels to be autentically true? 1681in Somers Tracts II. 125 When our Grievances shall be authentically proved. 1767Barrington in Phil. Trans. LVII. 212, I was most authentically informed..that several of them were caught. 1883Froude in Contemp. Rev. XLIV. 1 A few pages will contain all that can be authentically learnt of..Shakspeare.
3. Actually, genuinely, really.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus Wks. II. 524 Authentically differenced. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 252 All old Poems, Homer's and the rest, are authentically Songs. 1858― Fredk. Gt. I. ii. i. 49 An authentically noble human figure. a1850Rossetti Dante & Circ. I. 247 The possibility..of these sonnets being authentically by Dante and Forese. |