reˈstrainedly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
With restraint; † restrictedly.
| 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxvii. 19 Bycause our flesh woold streit fall to loocenes, God dealeth more restryenedly, with us. 1620 T. Granger Div. Logike 295 Strictly and restrainedly vsed, or largely. 1684 T. Burnet The. Earth ii. 164 More particularly and restrainedly, the government of Christ is opposed to the kingdom..of Antichrist. a 1703 Burkitt On N.T. Luke vi. 30 These and the like precepts of our Saviour, are not to be taken strictly, but restrainedly. 1890 Daily News 4 Oct. 3/1 The gilt designs that cover in some cases exuberantly, in others restrainedly, the sides of the volumes. |