ingeniously, adv.
(ɪnˈdʒiːnɪəslɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In an ingenious manner; cleverly, skilfully; † sagaciously, learnedly (obs.); with skilful contrivance.
| 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII 27 b, When the commissioners were once met, they so ingeniously and effecteously proceded in their great affaires, that they agreed. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & F. xxxii. 25 Not being geuen so much ingeniously To lerned iudgement. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 147 The Quiver and Case, wrought and cut ingeniously. 1678 Aubrey in Ray's Corr. (1848) 129 Mr. Merret..hath methodized the laws of England very ingeniously. 1725 Pope View Iliad & Odyss. §5 (R.) Homer has ingeniously begun his Odyssey with the transactions at Ithaca, during the absence of Ulysses. 1753 J. Collier (title) An Essay on the Art of ingeniously Tormenting. 1869 Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xiii. 281 A case..in which each fallacy fitted ingeniously into another. |
† 2. Used, by confusion, for ingenuously.
| 1598 Florio, Ingenuamente, freely, franckly, according to ones conscience, vnconstrained, ingeniously. 1607 Shakes. Timon ii. ii. 230 Prythee be not sad, Thou art true, and honest; Ingeniously I speake, No blame belongs to thee. 1692 Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 332, I will tell you ingeniously, That it is not mine. 1740 Col. Rec. Pennsylv. IV. 464 Is this dealing ingeniously by me? 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. i. 147 If they would ingeniously acknowledge their offence they should be forgiven. 1786 S. Haswell Victoria I. 3 Tell me, therefore, ingeniously, whether he has ever entertained you [etc.]. |