mutelyadv.

1587 F. Clement Petie Schole sig. Dvj^v This consonant v..standeth mutely in steede of a consonant.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 55 I had not taught thee then, the Alphabet Of flowers, how they..might with speechlesse secrecie Deliver arrands mutely, and mutually.

1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 64 Hail native Language, that..mad'st imperfect words..slide through my infant-lipps, Driving dum silence from the portal dore, Where he had mutely sat two years before.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther i. 30 The rest amaz'd Stood mutely still, and on the stranger gaz'd.

1752 M. Browne Sunday Thoughts (new ed.) iii, in Wks. & Rest of Creation 215 My Midnight Pillow's silent Visitor, Long with my Thoughts us'd mutely to converse.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Wanderings Cain ii The pointed and shattered summits of the ridges..seemed to prophecy mutely of things that then were not.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxx. 263 This poor soul had taken up a sash of George's from the drawers whereon it lay, and followed him to and fro with the sash in her hand, looking on mutely as his packing proceeded.

1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer i Nino sat mutely by, as we smoked.

1946 Liberty 25 May 56/1 Jane mutely held up her pole.

1987 C. Thubron Behind Wall iii. 99 The Chinese (I raged mutely) knew cruelty and squalor enough in their hierarchy-ridden families.