industriouslyadv.

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 310 It is concluded..how Ceres was sumtyme called the modere of the erthe, as the exquysite and endustriously ymagyned poemes of Orphe the Traciane vnto the same dothe aggree and concent.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 851 The noble Pamphila..Habillimentis royall founde out industriously.

1578 M. Jennings tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande i. f. 33^v From whence she brought store of harnesse, the moste sumptuous, industriously engrauen [Fr. industrieusement graué], and moste richely gilded, that was possible to see.

a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) i. i. 26 The first part was full of little Chambers, so industriously built that they seemed to be cut out of the Rocke it selfe.

a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) i. i. 28 The seeling was of a hollow mirror, made of many Venice glasses, so industriously [Fr. industrieusement] joyned together, that [etc.].

1770 D. Dalrymple Anc. Sc. Poems Notes 235 His kethat, casaque, or gown, industriously made to fall down to his feet in ample folds.

1797 H. W. Tytler tr. G. Michel & J.-P. Niceron Life in tr. S. de Sainte-Marthe Pædotrophia p. cxxxvii He proposed to celebrate them by a poetry not used, and of his own invention: this was by a most beautiful ode, industriously fashioned according to the lyres of Pindar and Horace.

2012 R. A. Etlin tr. Descr. Belle Maison d'Anet in T. M. Costelloe Sublime xv. 263 The vault is industriously [Fr. industrieusement] shaped with similar, gilded crescents interlaced analogously, one with the other.

1561 T. Paynell tr. N. Hanapus Ensamples Vertue & Vice cxv. sig. Xx.vi The workmen wrought industriously, and sette vppe the house of our Lorde in as good estate and condytyon as it was before, and strengthened it.

1573 tr. F. Hotman True Rep. Outrages Fraunce p. xxii The matter of the league with Englande, the Admirall so diligently and industriously handled, that within short space after by Embassadours sent, and by faith giuen and receyued, and othes solemnely taken on both parts, it was confirmed.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Industrieusement, industriously; diligently..laboriously.

1663 A. Cowley Verses Several Occasions 5 But thou industriously hast sow'd, and till'd The fair, and fruitful field.

1722 L. Braddon Particular Answers Objections to Proposal for Relieving Poor 42 One Acre of good Gardinary-Ground..when judiciously and industriously manag'd, may be made annually to produce much more than two hundred thousand Weight of good Nourishment.

1781 W. Blane Ess. on Hunting Pref. p. x If he..chuses to be idly busy rather than industriously so.

1835 J. Hall Tales of Border 135 A group of handsome daughters were..sewing away industriously under the supervision of the experienced matron.

1859 S. Smiles Self-help ii. 41 He worked away industriously employing a few hands.

1934 M. Cowley Exile's Return ii. 71 New factories where other workmen would toil industriously, and save, and become capitalists in their turn.

1991 High Life (Brit. Airways) May 48/4 My Private Secretary had applied himself industriously to the preparation for an important international conference.

1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xxii. 163 And bicause this is the chiefe poynt of all the sermon, he handleth the same verye industriously and in apt order.

1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xi. 185 Let vs cast off all hinderaunces and striue industriously vnto that saluation which is set before vs.

1605 A. Munday tr. G. Affinati Dumbe Divine Speaker xii. 140 The murmurer and detractor..seekes industriously (altogether) into other mens weaknesses, to load them with blames and reprehensions.

1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 608 The rankest pleasures which are industriously applied to the corruption of human nature.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 96. ⁋3 It has been industriously given out..that John Partridge is dead.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 96. ⁋7 Several have industriously spread abroad, That I am in Partnership with Charles Lilly.

1716 S. Sewall Diary 5 Oct. (1973) II. 834 Gov^r, L^t. Gov^r laid their hands on the Bible, and kiss'd it very industriously.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 437 A notion industriously propagated by the Romish clergy.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 8 Industriously shouting the cry of a church.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xviii. 212 In the act of disrobing, prayers are said most industriously.

1946 Liberty 25 May 60/1 Half an hour later they were industriously clubbing golf balls.

2007 Variety (Nexis) 1 Oct. 101 But everyone carries chirping cellphones and laptops on which they chatter away, industriously manufacturing and spreading..vicious gossip and outright lies.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 258 If industriously I play'd the Foole, it was my negligence, Not weighing well the end. View more context for this quotation

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell v. 63 But here, shee seemes to have industriously, and of set purpose studied it.

1674 T. Turner Case Bankers & Creditors Concl. 33 There be many things which possibly I have forgot, and some things which I have perhaps industriously omitted.

1714 H. Wanley Let. 30 Aug. (1989) 302 Part of them were burned on purpose, and others industriously mangled with the penknife.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 431 His horns are industriously so placed as to form two lunettes.

1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry III. 244 The three pyramids of Egypt have been industriously built upon the first hill between Cairo and the western bank of the Nile.

1857 F. D. Maurice Gospel St. John (ed. 2) 480 Why did he industriously choose another image, which no tradition except that of one passage in a prophet seemed to justify?