sociablyadv.
/ˈsəʊʃəbli/, U.S. /ˈsoʊʃəbli/ In a sociable manner.
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society > society and the community > social relations > [adverb]
commonlya1450
sociably1573
socially1621
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adverb]
fellowlyc1225
fellowlike1546
sociably1573
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 6 How sociablely he hath delt bi me.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I1v Beasts and birds..stood all sociably together. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xvii. 86 Certain living creatures, as Bees, and Ants, live sociably one with another.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 39 We went on very sociably together.
1755 World (1772) III. 294 [They] spend their evenings very sociably together.
1819 Times 28 Sept. 3/5 The more fortunate dealers..sociably dined at the house of the publican.
1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 111 Wine was sociably enjoyed, but drunkenness was abhorred.
1934 E. D. Mitchell & B. S. Mason Theory of Play iii. x. 234 The failure to mix sociably with one's fellow beings is the reason so many brilliant students in our schools fail in the actual working out of their profession.
1974 Ethos 2 307 We were impressed by the degree to which those infants in our study were encouraged to behave sociably.
2007 Independent (Nexis) 20 Sept. (Extra section) 22 The City Hall on Dame Street..was teeming with fellow culture-nighters sociably chatting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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