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1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels vi. 193 Yet for all that, his verie death it selfe, was the true beginning of a rightly compounded state.

1617 T. Taylor Davids Learning vi. 194 Christ in his prayer teacheth vs to..pray acceptably; and that includeth sundry child-like affections, all concurring in a rightly disposed person to pray, as first, Reuerence and feare.

1661 A. Burgess Expository Comment 1st Chap. 2 Cor. lxxxv. 385 Let us enquire first into the constituent or ingredient qualities, of a rightly guided conscience.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. 99 He sends them into the world with a well-temper'd, and rightly-disposed body.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 26 A rightly aimed intention will prove a guidance both in the manner and measure of our religious duties.

1857 W. M. Thackeray Let. in J. Brown Lett. (1912) 410 Yes, Doctor, the Oxford election cost £850. It was a cowardly robbery of a poor, innocent, rightly-served man.

1857 H. R. Reynolds in S. F. R. Best & H. R. Vaizey Life & Lett. H. R. Reynolds (1898) vi. 140 I was..prepared to accept the decision..as a rightly guided one.

1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 177 This rightly-named thirst land.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Tom Sawyer xxv There comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

1909 H. James Ambassadors (new ed.) I. Pref. p. ix The dramatist always, by the very law of his genius, believes..in a possible right issue from the rightly-conceived tight place.

1949 H. A. R. Gibb Mohammedanism viii. 130 The transformation of the Second Advent of Christ into a doctrine of the coming of the Mahdi, the ‘rightly-guided one’ who will effect the final victory of Islam.

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