intelligentlyadv.

1601 J. Dove Diuorcement i. 5 Let vs not read cum neglectu sed cum intellectu, not ignorantly but intelligently.

1671 R. Boyle Some Consid. Vsefvlnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. in Wks. (1772) III. 429 The knowledge of celestial bodies is not well to be attained, nor..the theories proposed of them to be intelligently judged of, without arithmetick and geometry.

1749 tr. Voltaire Zadig 213 After some Respite, he invited them to a frugal, yet elegant Repast; during which, he talk'd very intelligently about the late Revolutions in Babylon.

1790 J. Beattie Elem. Moral Sci. I. ii. i. 381 In affirming that the universe proceeds from chance, it would appear, that atheists mean, either that it has no cause at all, or that its cause did not act intelligently, or with design, in the production of it.

1867 in R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board Foreign Missions (1872) II. xxxvi. 325 They..discuss and vote as intelligently..as the missionary fathers.

1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) v. 144 A doctrine which, intelligently enforced, ought to appeal to all men with convincing power.

1958 P. White Let. 12 Aug. (1994) v. 147 I found a glamorous young man still in his twenties, with rather sunken blue eyes, and a full under lip, who spoke very intelligently.

1992 Sci. Fiction & Fantasy Writers of Amer. Bull. Spring 10/2 I attempt to write intelligently about apartheid in South Africa and at least semi-intelligently about superstring theory.