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colourably, colorably, adv.|ˈkʌlərəblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a colourable manner.
1. With a fair appearance, speciously, plausibly.
a1400Serm. agst. Miracle Plays in Rel. Ant. II. 55 Addyng many lesynges therto so colowrably that the puple ȝife as myche credense to hem as to the trwthe. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xxii. 105 Colourably with fayre speakyng should entise him. a1667Cowley Ess. Solitude, If it were as truly as it is colourably and wittily said. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 697 It might have reflected more colourably a kind of neglect upon them.
2. Under a feigned or counterfeit appearance; feignedly; in appearance but not in reality.
1523Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII, c. 4 §1 They occupie here..not only for themselfe but also colourably for other straungers. 1546Bale Eng. Votaries ii. (1550) 50 b, Colourably or dyssemblyngly reconcyled. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 466 Fayningly, and counterfetly or colorably. 1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. ii. 29 The jewels were sent, colourably..to Germany. 1883Law Rep. 11 Q.B. Div. 436 He..colourably withdrew from the partnership.
3. With a show of reason or legality; with a prima facie ground or pretext; on the face of it.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 463 To the end he might colourably depose him. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 277 There is no other place that can so much as colourably be drawn to countenance [it]. 1786Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1842 II. 198 [It] could not be even colourably disposed of at the pretended will of the said nabob. 1862Sat. Rev. 13 Sept. 308 No one could doubt that the issue was at least colourably different. |