perfectlyadv.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 15 (MED) In erþe ne ys zuo holi man þet moȝe parfitliche [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues parfyȝtly] be-uly alle þe maneres of zenne.

c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 122 (MED) Þai shullen vnderstonden parfitelich of his makynges þat ben wonderful.

a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Rawl.:Napier) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1899) 14 461 (MED) Full perfytely he couth his partes.

a1500 Warkworth's Chron. (1839) 16 There was suche a grete myste, that nether of them myght see othere perfitely.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxij In lyke maner shall we also..know more perfitly our parentes, wyues, children, & what so euer is besydes.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 222 He being neere and innermore to al things than the things themselues are, doth know them most perfectly.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 4 I hate them [sc. otters] perfectly, because they love fish so well. View more context for this quotation

1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. v. 235 Affirming that that Universal is nothing which Reason thinks it so perfectly sees.

1729 B. Mandeville Fable Bees ii. iii. 99 I perfectly loath the sight of those Sexless Animals [sc. eunuchs.]

1745 S. Patrick tr. Terence Eunuchus iv. vi. 30 Do you understand me? C.: Yes, perfectly.

1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iii. 108 The rest of the madwomen seemed to understand the joke perfectly.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. iii. 41 There is no doubt that she perfectly idolised him.

1884 Harper's Mag. Apr. 748/2 There is not a man in the United States so perfectly hated by the people of my district as yourself.

1974 O. Manning Rain Forest i. x. 107 They understand perfectly.

1998 G. Phinn Other Side of Dale (1999) xiv. 148 He would..ask for clarification and then demonstrate in his quiet, diffident way that he had understood perfectly.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 12092 (MED) He þat shryueþ hym parfytely..haþ forȝyuenes of Goddys ȝyfte.

a1500 tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1977) 6 When þu hast ete þi mete, be ware þu ete not eftsonis, vn-til þi mete bifore receiuid be perfitely digested.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 32 The thre generall distinctions of tyme, present, parfytly past, and to come.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 42 They were all perfitly reclaimed.

1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn sig. A4 Goods perfectly manufactured which hinder the consumption of our own..ought to be discouraged.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews i. xviii. 90 Having perfectly recovered the Effects of her first unhappy Passion, she seemed to have vowed a State of perpetual Chastity.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 334 The troubles..had never been perfectly appeased.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 243 He ssel clyerliche izy god and him ssel louie parfitliche [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues parfiȝtliche] and worþssipie euremo.

c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 111 Crist..spak to hem that wolde lyue parfitly.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 3428 (MED) Swa parfitely may nane lyf here, With-outen veniel syns sere.

1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) iv. sig. Av/2 Though I wyll but fayntly, my wylle is to wylle perfyghtly.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cv. 24 He is maste at loue that..perfytliest lufis heuen.

a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) v. 1672 And lyvyt thare religyowsly And dyde thare office perfytely.

a1605 R. Bannatyne Memorials Trans. Scotl. (1836) 338 How the erle had diet so perfytlie and with sic kynd of speich as give he had died with the grittest provisione that ever man died.

1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 269 Christ..in the residue of his whole life, afterwards fulfilled the whole Law, actually, workingly and perfectly.

1711 J. Humfrey Peace in Divinity 15 There is a keeping them [sc. the Commandments] perfectly and indispensably, which is the Condition of the Law.

1747 J. Edwards True Saints vi The soul shall live perfectly in and upon Christ.

2003 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 10 May (Faith section) 3 f Humans fail in any attempt to live perfectly before God.

c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1834 Ther nys no werkman..That may bothe werke wel and hastily; This wol be doon at leyser parfitly.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3300 (MED) iij preciouse stonys been within the hafft Perfitlych I-couchid.

c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 14 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 129 Gyfe he his varke dois parfytly.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xl. 132 Teche hyr to speake perfeyghtly the language of frenche.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 183 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 100 Parfytlye yir pikmawis..With yar party habitis present yam yare.

1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. viii. ii. 318 Whereof he discoursed perfectlier than my selfe that came from thence.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 14 Evill manners are as perfectly learnt without books a thousand other ways which cannot be stopt.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 25 They cannot be so perfectly call'd the Fore-runners, or Fore-tellers, much less the procurers of such Events.

1789 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) III. 9 Mr. Littlepage has returned..to Warsaw, where he has been perfectly received by the King.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 311 The large accumulations of perfectly-rolled shingle.

1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 772/2 I had trained it into being a perfectly mannered house pet.

1934 R. Lynd Both Sides of Road vii. 42 A perfectly judged long kick into touch.

1947 Life 17 Nov. 23/1 (advt.) Tall, medium or small, Adjustables fit you perfectly!

1988 D. M. Thomas Memories & Hallucinations iii. 22 One may love the crippled child more than the perfectly formed one.

c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2381 Ther is no wight parfitly [v.rr. perfitly, perfytely; parfite] trewe to hym that he to soore dredeth.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 228^v And if fruyt is perfitliche rype, it schal haue good sauour and mery smelle.

c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 128 (MED) Too of hir neybouris..infect with a maner of palesie..wer..mad parfitly hool.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 176 Yat we knaw perfitely wele, yat thir fals jowis.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. vi. f. 32 The earth is not perfectlye rownde.

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 25 When it is boyled enoughe, it wyl bee perfitely Redde.

1658 A. Conway Let. 9 Apr. (1992) iii. 148 Most perfectly and eternally yours.

1677 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 43 The D[uchess] is perfectly well again.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 39 Who I knew by his Face perfectly well.

1753 Earl of Bath in World No. 17 Every body is dressed so perfectly alike.

1794 E. Inchbald Wedding Day i. ii. 16 Lady Contest: Would not that do as well? Lord Rakeland: Perfectly as well. The very thing.

1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. v. 94 But all looked perfectly comme il faut.

1846 J. E. Ryland Life Foster II. 472 Unostentatious and perfectly simple address.

1896 Law Times Rep. 73 615/1 The railway line..was perfectly straight for a distance of over 700 yards.

1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow viii. 200 She was perfectly happy to do just nothing.

1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk i. 26 Most of her oddities are perfectly harmless.

1989 A. Storr Freud vi. 61 Schreker appeared perfectly normal unless the subject-matter of his delusions was touched upon.

1742 Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 178 The air may be consolidated in many hard bodies..till..it is again restor'd to its perfectly elastic state.

1784 G. Atwood Treat. Rectilinear Motion 376 In the impact of perfectly elastic bodies.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. vii. 67 Two threads, or perfectly flexible and inextensible lines, be wound in contrary directions round two cylinders.

1912 Times 28 Feb. 26/3 A simple way of comparing different bodies was to observe how far the strain effects produced by stress deviated from the ideal condition of a perfectly elastic body.

1936 R. S. Glasgow Princ. Radio Engin. xiv. 418 If an antenna is located over a perfectly conducting earth, the electromagnetic waves radiated in the direction of the latter will be reflected..in the manner shown.

1990 Scope Summer 10/1 Imagine that we have elastic billiard balls (they lose no energy when they collide) and a perfectly smooth billiard table (so the balls are not slowed by friction).