† formablyadv.
Obsolete.
According to customary or prescribed form; formally; in good form; speciously.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adverb] > conformably > in accordance with established rules
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c1450 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 6 See that you, telers..The storye of the Assention formablye doe frame.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 79 Þis cosynage..may not be known formably bi proue after þe court of plete.
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 416 Such thinges as I..haue not duely ne formably executed.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 30 The foxe made his excuse so wel and formably..that [etc.].
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure 123 As I shall shew anone more formably.
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