intentivelyadv.
Obsolete or archaic.
In an intentive manner; with earnest attention or application; earnestly, heedfully, intently.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adverb]
intentivelyc1290
studiouslya1382
intentlyc1425
wistlya1500
poringly1594
intensively1637
wistfully1664
fixedly1702
concentratedly1794
c1290 Beket 504 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 121 Kniȝtes and oþure..beden seint Thomas ententifliche: þat he þat word forbere.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 210 And acsi wisliche and diligentliche þet is ententifliche and perseuerantliche.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. pr. xii. 81 For as I trowe thow ledyst now moore ententyfly thyne eyen to loken the verray goodes.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 239 The knyȝt with his meyne went to se the wall..Devising ententiflich þe strengthis al a-bout.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxxxiii. 268 Alle they of oure hooste behelde them moche ententyfly.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 71 The Phylosopher that too intentiuely gaz'd on the starres, stumbled & fell into a ditch.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ix. §1. 295 The end of the Mathematicks, is, to leade vs men intentiuely to consider of the nature of God.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 6. ⁋3 I looked intentively upon him.
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