popularlyadv.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 55 Not meete to be so popularly praysed.

1595 T. Bedingfield tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. viii. 205 Hee feared many times to haue bene populerly slaine.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 217 A Dysenterie slaying popularly and killing many.

1785 Daily Universal Reg. 29 Dec. 4/1 Two or three arrangements are popularly mentioned—one in particular, that of a new Master of the Rolls.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 424 He had a son, who was popularly called the Boy of Egremont.

1838 H. H. Milman in E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xv. 296 (note) The doctrine of the immortality of the soul..if popularly known among the Jews, must have been purely Egyptian.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. ix. 730 A Town Council popularly elected.

1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 35 A flowering plant not distantly related to the grass family, technically known as Zostera marina, and popularly called eel grass.

1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 193 Westminster Palace Clock. The clock popularly known as ‘Big Ben’, in a tower of the Palace of Westminster.

1995 Economist 23 Sept. 75/1 The Democratic Party..dominated the races for the 20 popularly elected local seats.

1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. R3^v Saint Augustine there speaketh popularly.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. 51 They had not written so much nor so popularly.

1621 A. Cade Serm. Nature of Conscience 19 The nature of conscience, which I will describe as popularly as I can.

1684 R. Baxter Catholick Communion 20 You will say that the Scripture speaketh popularly, and after the manner of Men.

1730 J. Dennis tr. T. Burnet Treat. conc. State Departed Souls viii. 249 This often happens in the Style of the sacred Scripture, that a Thing is express'd or represented popularly, and adapted to the Capacity of the Vulgar in some Places.

1795 R. Foley Def. Church of Eng. i. 2 The times are naturally measur'd by the course of the Sun in the firmament, whose diurnal rotation, to speak popularly, metes out day and night to each quarter of the globe.

1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 138 The difficulty lies not in the apprehension of them, when they are plainly and popularly stated.

1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 95/3 The book is popularly written, often dramatic in presentation, and contains only a modest amount of technical information.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 111 Some Popes haue bene glad for their aduantage, to tyrannise Popularly, so he may chaunce be content for his aduauncement, to popularise tyrannically: and shall not be the first..that hath cunningly done it with a comely grace.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 11 Why then shoud I..Turn Rebell, and run Popularly Mad?

1735 E. Fenton Mariamne i. ii. 11 He's nobly born, and popularly vain, Rare tinsel-stuff t'adorn a room of state!

1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 223 To twirl the Ringlets, which in Order grow, On each Side waving popularly low.