ˈuprightly, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a just or upright manner; with strict observance of justice, honesty, or rectitude; sincerely, justly. (Freq. c 1560–c 1590.)
| 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts xxiii. 75 Bearyng my selfe vpryghtely and with a good conscience. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 32 In times past when men dealt vprightly, and in the feare of God. 1624 Bedell Lett. x. 129 Iudge now vprightly if this be indifferent dealing. 1649 Davenant Love & Hon. iv. iii. 27 If you uprightly love her and the prince. 1668 Dryden Dram. Poesy Ess. (ed. Ker) I. 89 Betwixt the extremes of admiration and malice, 'tis hard to judge uprightly of the living. 1755 Johnson, Honestly,..uprightly; justly. 1838 Arnold Hist. Rome I. 296 The first decemvirs..governed uprightly and well. 1847 S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 39 A man who would rule uprightly. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 454 He was sure, he said, that they had acted uprightly. |
† b. Candidly; straightforwardly. Obs.
| 1565 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 340 To declair planelie and uprychtlie the wordis and brute..of the said allegeit conspiracie. 1579 E. K. Gloss. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Aug. 53 By Perigot who is meant, I can not vprightly say. 1598 J. Melvill Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 439 All sic as stud uprightlie for the established discipline and fredome of the Kirk. 1620 Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1629) 130 Besides (to speake vprightly) one might..complaine of the privatenesse of the Angells appearing. 1630 R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 13 To speak uprightly, from these Nations..have tortures of more exquisite device taken their originals. |
2. In an upright position; vertically, perpendicularly. Also fig. and in fig. context.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 159 He..shall live in this world uprightly and in even ballance, without enclining more to one side, than unto another. 1639 J. Taylor (Water P.) Part Summers Trav. 46 You were never known to be drunke, and though you never walke uprightly, yet you never stumbled. a 1718 Parnell Poems (1758) 9 The waters were afraid;..In heaps uprightly plac'd they learn to stand. 1751 Harris Hermes i. v. (1765) 84 These Pronouns..assumed a peculiar Accent of their own, which gave them the name of ὀρθοτονουµέναι, or Pronouns uprightly accented. 1826 in A. C. Hutchinson Pract. Obs. Surg. (ed. 2) 173 But I have watched him,—have seen him..walk..as uprightly as you can walk. 1868 Lockyer Elem. Astron. §168 We found that the Sun was not floating uprightly in our sea, the plane of the ecliptic. |