passivelyadv.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 375 (MED) Infantis mowe receive and vse passyuely or suffringly þi sacrament of baptym eer þei mowe kunne worschipe þee.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes v. f. 203 He..is intestable, both actiuely and passiuely..he can neither make a testament, nor receiue anie benefite by a testament.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 5 The whole State and Kingdome..may lawfully..not only passively, but actively resist their Prince, in such his violent, exorbitant, tyrannicall proceedings.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 376 Shall thy Creature only passively glorifie thee as an Avenger, and not actively as a Compassionater?

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. ii. 140 The Author [is] demean'd, if not actively and passively ridicul'd.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 68 Incendiaries, that..toss brands among a rabble passively combustible.

1810 M. F. Johnson Orig. Sonnets 126 He who..is all passively to slav'ry brought, Was, ere his thraldom, morally a slave.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. xii. i. 50 Soft iron is only passively magnetic.

1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 713 The tissues which are passively distended may be said to be in a state of negative tension.

1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xiii. 151 After these words, and without a change of attitude, he, so to speak, submitted himself passively to a state of silence.

1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iii. 228 They were all looking passively at Daphne, willing though not keen to fall in with her next plan.

1987 F. Wyndham Other Garden i. 10 The half-remembered excursions of my babyhood, passively mobile in an ample pram.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 302 All..whose signifycacion may serve bothe actyvely and passively, as muable, apte or mete or able to chaunge, or apte or mete or able to be chaunged.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxvii. 3) (Ragna) should be taken passively, (to be fed).

1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 17^v Rehearse them Actiuely, and Passiuely togither.

1685 Case Doubt. Conscience 63 Some~times it is taken Passively, and then the Signification of it is this, to be Divided.

1750 Let. 10 Oct. in Student (1751) 2 No. 8. 308 Several conjugations..whether they are to be taken actively, passively, causatively, or absolutely.

1847 B. H. Kennedy Elem. Lat. Gram. 174 For signifying Necessity Passively, the Gerundive is used Impersonally in the Neuter Gender.

1988 Paragraph 11 242 In fact, it contains two past participles used passively (coupée and bordée).

1995 New Yorker 26 June 96/2 A coinage has formed itself within the media community of the West Coast: ‘O.J.,’ as a verb. Thus, ‘to O.J.’ Or, passively (and much, much more commonly), ‘to be O.J.-ed’ or ‘to get O.J.-ed.’