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1509 in Charters & Documents Royal Burgh Stirling (1884) 74 The..biggin and recentlie insetting of certane cruffis.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. ii. 133 The commoun liberte sa recentlie Recouerit was nere loist be falset and tressoun.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlix Sodeinly he herde newes that fyer was sprong oute of the smoke, and the warre, recently begonne.

1613 P. Simson Short Compend Hist. First Ten Persecutions I. iii. iii. sig. N5^v Of olde time it was a custome that when men were recently departed this life, their friends would thrust the sacrament in the mouth of the dead body.

1666 D. Coxe Let. 19 Feb. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 73 I..ventred to make use of a medicine recently Commended to mee by a discreet gentleman.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments 42 Those Tubes that are most recently made of Fluids are most flexible and most easily lengthen'd.

1762 J. Galbraith Answers for John Galbraith of Balgair 8 The argument pro et con has been so fully stated in former papers, and so recently under your Lordships consideration.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 221 James did not pretend to have been recently convinced.

1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire v. 65 Its prelates and nobles..retained till recently the style and title of Princes of the Holy Empire.

1926 J. Buchan Dancing Floor (1976) xiii. 174 The lock must have been recently oiled, for it moved easily.

1964 J. Mitchell White Father iv. 86 He felt tired after his digging, and he hadn't practised recently as much as he should have done.

1997 Business Age Sept. 137/2 The question of independence never arises as an election issue, unlike, say, in Bermuda recently.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 32 Tying up in a rag, about the quantity of a nutmeg, of well and recently calcin'd Alabastre.

1692 R. Bentley Folly of Atheism 33 In all Climates a whole People has been over-run with some recently invented or newly imported kind of Vice, which their Grandfathers never knew.

1714 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis ii. 249 Apply'd externally on recently contused Parts, it [sc. the Spirit of Wine] doth by its great Heat and Subtilty inflame the same.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams II. i. 9 A recently conceived purpose.

1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 243 The blood flowed from his recently-wounded hand.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxx. 410 A small space of recently-open water that was glazed over with..ice.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 28 One of the recently-acquired German Protectorates.

1937 Granta 3 Feb. 219/1 He was off with the five survivors of our English group to join the recently formed English Battalion.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. 102/3 Females changed hands at prices ranging to 130 gs, paid for a recently-calved C.M. cow.

2005 Independent 17 May 5/2 The recently-popular GI diet..advocates the eating of foods which break down slower in the body.

1745 Information for Alexander Chrystie 1 Recently before the Bankruptcy broke out,..he commissioned the said Alexander Chrystie to purchase..a large Parcel of Goods.

1747 Information His Majesty's Advocate against A .Stuart 17 He had Opportunity to know all the Facts which he relates, and which he set down in Writing recently after they happened.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1752 I. 131 The situation in which he found him recently after his wife's death.

1843 J. F. Cooper Wyandotte II. xv. 188 Our heroine, however, was so reluctant even to assuming the appearance of happiness, so recently after the losses she had experienced.

1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. I. 251 We saw the Clitumnus, so recently from its source.., that it was still as pure as a child's heart.

1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-Master xi. 92 Miss Hawkins was recently from Massachusetts.

1944 Rev. Eng. Stud. 20 111 They were so recently from Heaven—their only Sin..being rebellion against God, apostasy.

1995 M. S. Weaver Timber & Prayer 84 Aisha, recently from India, Opens the door, and I tread Up the stairs to my lessons.