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blindly, adv.|ˈblaɪndlɪ|
[f. blind a. + -ly2.]
1. In a blind way; after the manner of the blind; fig. without foresight or reason, deludedly.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. x. §6 Hu blindlice moneᵹe þeoda sprecað ymb þone cristendom. c1380Wyclif Antecrist & Meynee 152 If þe puple..folowe hem blyndly. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, v. v. 24 The Brother blindely shed the Brothers blood. 1697Dryden Virg. Eclog. vi. 52 How Seas, and Earth, and Air and active Flame..Were blindly gather'd in this goodly Ball. 1832Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. V. 399 Whigs struggling blindly forward, Tories holding blindly back. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. Introd. 96 Groping blindly in the darkness.
†2. Dimly, indistinctly. Obs. Cf. blind a. 7.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2168/4 A Dun Gelding..R.B. blindly upon the same Leg.
3. Without an opening. Cf. blind a. 11.
1872Huxley Phys. viii. 202 The scala media..at its opposite end terminates blindly. |