literatelyadv.

1600 R. Kittowe Loues Load-starre sig. H More literately to define, what is this pollished place, but (like a painted Sepulchre) an habitation for rotten bones?

1648 R. Robins Whip for Marshalls Court sig. D2 This is their Exordium which I have litteratly set downe formerly, out of which have observed one pritty passage.

1652 R. Williams Bloody Tenent yet More Bloody 27 Doth Master Cotton indeed believe that..each private father and mother (as that place of Zechary, literately, taken carries it) must..run through and kill their Son the false Prophet?

1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances III. 40 I may be said, literally, but not literately, to follow my studies.

1779 Church of Eng. Vindic. vi. 231 His lordship in this article has proved himself to be literately versed in the historical and modern practice (with regard to his own time) of the Roman Church.

1869 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 725/1 He was..conversant with all that is going on in the world of Europe, politically, artistically, and literately.

1920 D. T. Owen Child Vision xvii. 159 This is true in life just as much as it is literately.

1978 Washington Post 3 Dec. f7/4 Lucid description, classical commentary,..all literately written to make serious archeology joyful and easy to read.

2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Dec. 16 The new edition of The Companion to British History..answers, pithily and literately, almost every question you might have about any aspect of our past.