rightfullyadv.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1872 (MED) King he was þritti ȝer; he ladde is kindeom Riȝtuolliche & suiþe wel.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 153 (MED) Phalaris, a tyraunt of Sicilia, punschede men ofte riȝtfulliche, þey he were hym self unriȝtful.

?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 328 (MED) Prelatis þat breken openly Goddis hestis ben riȝtfully cursed of God.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 33 This man lyued rithfully, and distroyed mech abhominable lecchery in Jerusalem.

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Avii^v The plages of Egypt, which ye haue alreadye rightfully deserued.

1580 R. Parsons Brief Disc. Ep. Ded. The cogitations of al hartes shal be reueled and examined, and in iustice of iudgment, rightfully rewarded.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvii. 687/1 That victorious Prince King Henry the fifth..whose blood you haue either rightfullie or wrongfully (God knoweth) extinguished and destroied.

1688 T. Grantham Infants Advocate 23 But Infants can commit no Fault, therefore the punishment here assigned doth belong to the Adult only, they only be rightfully Punished.

1849 W. I. Bowditch Slavery & Constit. xvi. 150 No wrong action can be righfully done. No wrong can be rightfully supported.

1870 Arthur's Home Mag. 35 115/2 There never will come an hour,..whether I live rightfully or wrongfully, when God will not stand in love by my side.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Mar. 1/3 The city of Vancouver will urge the Dominion and Provincial Governments to carry a burden which it believes should rightfully be borne by them.

2005 J. Cory Activist Business Ethics x. 93 It is much easier to harm somebody who you do not know and do not respect, especially when you are convinced that you act rightfully.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 196 (MED) Yef hi weren riȝtuolliche milde, hi ssolden..louie þe uelaȝrede of poure men.

a1425 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Dulwich Coll.) l. 1956 (MED) Ar we in loue all ryȝtfully [a1400 Harl. Þan beþ we yn loue ryȝtly].

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 142 (MED) Rihtfulliche j may be cleped an ape clogged.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 5907 Of seuene heuenes we of telle for seuene planetis þat þei in dwelle, But rightfully of heuenes to lere Ben no mo but þise þre here.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xv. 90 b They that are vnder Moses law be rightfully called seruauntes.

1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 52 None but you..Can rightfully aread so dolefull lay.

1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories x. 53 The proper subiect of honour, which the most high, and noble Phylosopher Plato rightfully calleth Diuinum bonum.

1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold ii. xviii. 468 The Air seems to be as rightfully term'd cold, as Iron, Marble.., and such other Bodies, which men unanimously look upon as such.

1784 E. Allen Reason x. 349 When we speak of any being who by nature is capable of being rightfully denominated an individual, we conceive of it to exist but in one essence.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 1 I show to each system that I fully understand and rightfully appreciate what that system means.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 112 Books..stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.

1884 Manch. Examiner 24 Nov. 6/3 He rightfully distrusted such a frail-looking craft.

1938 Amer. Home Jan. 62/1 (advt.) For these woods are rightfully noted for the lasting beauty they give to even the lightest colored paints.

1991 Potato Marketing Materials (BNC) Today the potato is rightfully acknowledged to be the most important vegetable we eat.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) xi. l. 1251 He was next heir; entrid rihtfulli As enheritour to succeede in that rewm.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 674 (MED) All possessions and all maner goodes that now rightfully and lawfully ye possesse..shold abide to them and to ther successours sure and vntastid.

?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. aviii Euery persone whiche is cyted lawfully or rightfully before his Iuge ordynarye ought not departe vnto the tyme that the cause be declaryd good or euyl.

1542 Proclam. Henry VIII 23 Jan. in R. Garnett Tudor Proclam. (1897) No. 25 We be ivstely and rightfully kynge of our Realme of Irelande,..and the non vse therof in our style hath caused moche disobedience.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 350 The realme of Fraunce, the which rightfully did apperteyne vnto them.

1641 Termes de la Ley 39 When an action is rightfully brought for a duty but yet about the bush, as it were..it is called Circuity of action.

1695 Anc. Const. Eng. 5 This [kingly] power cannot rightfully be acquired without the people's consent.

1711 T. Madox Hist. & Antiq. Exchequer Ded. sig. A ij^v That Imperial Crown, which from the Renowned Saxon and Normannick race rightfully descendeth to Your Majesty.

1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 344 On-stand, the rent paid by the outgoing to the incoming tenant for such land as the former has rightfully cropped before his leaving the farm.

1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 423/2 Return of Cattle, &c. is a term applied to the restoration of cattle, &c. distrained,..after it has been ascertained that the distress was rightfully taken.

1885 Law Times Rep. 51 747/1 The goods were rightfully sold under the bill of sale.

1913 F. A. Erwin Cases on Torts (ed. 2) 154 Owners of real property are not obliged to fence but against cattle which are rightfully on the adjoining lands.

1941 Cosmic Stories Mar. 47/2 It's not rightfully yours, either. You stole it from that Uranian prince.

1995 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 56/1 He compared the Compact to a gigantic tree throwing its shadow over the colony, soaking up wealth that should rightfully go to honest workmen and farmers.