manifoldly, adv. Now only literary.
(ˈmænɪfəʊldlɪ)
[OE. maniᵹfealdl{iacu}ce, f. maniᵹfeald manifold: see -ly2.]
In manifold ways; † occas. in the proportion of many to one.
| c 825 Vesp. Psalter lxii. 2 Multipliciter, moniᵹfaldlice. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. John x. 10 Abundantius, moniᵹfal[d]⁓lice. c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3318 Mankynde..cryed to goode manyfaldly. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. 10 The deuilles snares (which he layeth manyfoldely). 1599 Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 177 The proportion..is manifoldly inferiour, not one to twenty. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ii. §13 So also is there another kind of history manifoldly mixed, and that is history of cosmography. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 38 Good Culture doth infinitely meliorate the Land,..and manifoldly repay the expence and labour bestowed thereon. 1825 Coleridge Aids Refl. 83 The manifoldly intelligent ant tribes. 1855 Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note A. 27 These are divided manifoldly, in that some understand by conversion identity of place..others..an order of succession. 1873 A. W. Ward tr. Curtius' Hist. Greece I. i. i. 8 The country is so manifoldly broken up, that it becomes a succession of peninsulas. |