diversely, adv.
(dɪ-, daɪˈvɜːslɪ, ˈdaɪvəslɪ)
[f. diverse a. + -ly2.]
In a diverse manner, in a different way; differently, otherwise; in diverse ways or directions, variously; with diversity. See also diversly.
| a 1300 [see diversly 1]. c 1325 Poem Times Edw. II, 255 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 335 Nu ben theih so degysed and so diverseliche i-diȝt. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 432 Þei lyveden diverseliche fro þise newe sects. c 1386 Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 194 Diuerse folk diuersely [v.r. dyuersly] they demed. 1485 Caxton Chas. Gt. 1 The helthe of euery person proceedeth dyuercely. 1526 Frith Disput. Purgatory 167 Infernus, which is diversely taken in Scripture both for death, for a grave, and for hell. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. ii. i. (1695) 42 Being surrounded with Bodies, that perpetually and diversely affect us. 1732 Pope Ess. Man ii. 97 On Life's vast ocean diversely we sail. 1862 Merivale Rom. Emp. (1871) V. xl. 23 The seven hills of Rome have been diversely enumerated. |