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carefully, adv.|ˈkɛəfʊlɪ| [OE. carful-líce: see prec. and -ly2.] In a careful manner; with care: in various senses of the adj.; now chiefly, Heedfully, attentively, circumspectly, cautiously.
a1000in Thorpe Laws II. 360 Se sacerd sceal don carfullice Godes þenunga. a1300Cursor M. p. 989. 333 Ful carfully me-think be þis way ȝe walk. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxiii. 201 For drede gan ich quaken, And criede carfully. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. (Arb.) 147 Whome they see depart from his life carefullie and agaynst his will. 1559Morwyng Evonym. 7, I began carefully to muse. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. ii. 8 Let it be your charge..To attend the Emperours person carefully. 1710–11Swift Lett. (1766–8) III. 95, I walkt plaguy carefully, for fear of sliding. a1726Collier (J.) Envy, how carefully does it look? how meagre and ill-complexioned? 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 429 The parliament, in asserting the freedom of England, carefully chose their language. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 160 We must examine carefully the character of his proposals. |