liberallyadv.

c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 181 William..liberally [?a1475 Harl. gretely, L. liberaliter] rewarded..went aȝen to Normandye.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xliii. 168 Blanchardyn..right lyberaly graunted to hym his requeste.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDDviii^v Which..ministreth to their neyghbours liberally, suche goodes..as they haue receyued of god.

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 49 For such a one they lib'rally will give.

1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 119 How can God, though of his own nature never so liberally disposed, give to him who has liberty of asking, and yet does not?

1704 London Gaz. No. 4020/1 Your Majesty so Liberally upon all Occasions imparting to Your Subjects the Blessings You receive from God.

1762 North Briton No. 12 It [sc. Johnson's dictionary] will give the country of the old Romans the justest ideas of English liberty, and of the present patrons of it among us, who have so liberally rewarded the author.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. vii. 336 Promises, and even gold,..were liberally lavished.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. vi. 99 And, if I do anything worthy of praise, she gives me my meed liberally.

1885 Sir H. Cotton in Law Times Rep. 53 481/2 The bill..is one which the clients are not bound to pay unless they are minded to deal liberally with the solicitors.

1913 E. de Wolfe House in Good Taste (1914) xix. 286 He did everything for us, introduced us to his friends,..gave us liberally of his charm and knowledge, and finally gave us the chance to buy this old house.

1974 K. E. Woodiwiss Wolf & Dove 144 He entertained her liberally with the courtly ways of a Norman knight.

1998 A. Murray Suicide in Middle Ages I. p. ix My dossier of evidence..has been equally enriched by help from friends. Dr Patricia Morison liberally gave me material from her own big dossier of miracula.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xxvii. 130 With golden droppes so lyberally indewed.

1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles vi. 1 Their widowes were not so liberallie relieued.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 4 That vertue which she could not liberallie impart, Shee striueth to amend by her owne proper Art.

1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation lv. 565 As they were both riding home from a Treat, at which they had drunk liberally.

a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 63 He spared not to blame him liberally for it.

1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 23 Acid fruits should be liberally offered.

1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 111 After allowing liberally for casualties during the advance.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 8/1 The hair beneath her plain little felt bonnet was liberally streaked with gray.

1954 G. Beer Austrian Cooking 106 Dust liberally with icing sugar.

1968 Listener 26 Sept. 421/2 Peel's linking comments are liberally sprinkled with in-references to musicians and to long-playing records.

2006 A. Beaujon Body Piercing saved my Life iii. 63 Some artists take this as a call to liberally season their work with accounts of personal struggles and failures.

a1500 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 63 (MED) Al thyes lyberteis and customes..the fore sayd Burgeses claymes for to hafe..and yr antecessors liberally hafe usyd be fore tyme.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Q.vj Your daughter may speke lyberally with hir cousyns.

1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 3 The Mayre..shall..suffre all thinhabitauntes..lyberally and freely without interrupcion..to..bringe their saide hearinges.

1568 Mary Queen of Scots Let. 18 Jan. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) App. 30 Thay would have persuadit me be craft to have liberallie dimittit my crown.

1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque sig. C1^v Had mine owne brother spoke thus liberally, My fury should haue taught him better manners.

1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 32 Some may thinke, I speake liberally; God forbid I should doe it.

1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. i. ii. 50 The first spoke too liberally, when he said, that the whole Protestant Communion deny Bishops to be proper Priests.

1778 J. Brett tr. B. J. Feijóo y Montenegro Three Ess. or Disc. 66 The principles on which such conclusions are founded, to speak liberally, are uncertain and doubtful.

1827 Q. Rev. June 236 Our worthy Philhellenes have been rather liberally accusing one another of prevarication and falsehood.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 109 Vthiris in the meine tyme leiuet sa liberallie, forgetting planelie y^r office and seruice ecclesiastical.

1708 Gamesters Law iv. 54 The Statute of Gaming would be of little use, if it is not extended to By-betts, but only to the Gaming it self; and this Act hath always been construed liberally.

1756 T. Rutherforth Inst. Nat. Law II. ix. 624 Whether it is to be interpreted liberally or not, must be determined in the same manner, as if we had any other writing to construe.

1804 Times 11 Apr. 2/4 Where any doubts may arise upon the meaning of any particular clause, it will be interpreted liberally, and rather to the advantage of the individual who thinks he is entitled to a benefit from it.

1861 Dublin Rev. Feb. 443 The rules..had several features in common, but they seem to have been liberally interpreted.

1908 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 16 588 There is a line, or more accurately, a band or zone somewhere between 100 per cent. value and the 50 per cent. value, and this band, speaking very liberally, will be somewhere between 60 per cent. and 75 per cent. of the original cost.

1959 F. Sondern Brotherhood of Evil iv. 54 A code of behavior gradually took shape, and came to be known in the brotherhood as omertà, which can be translated liberally as ‘conspiracy of silence’.

2000 B. P. Krages Total Environmental Compliance v. 87 The rationale behind construing these laws liberally is that the promotion of the social good should not be obstructed through an overly strict reading of the law.