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fairly, adv.|ˈfɛəlɪ|
[f. fair a. + -ly2.]
†1. So as to make a fair appearance; beautifully, handsomely. Also in bad sense: Speciously. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xxii. 242 Alle the hoost cometh fayrely aftre him. c1400Destr. Troy 5142 Þai..ferdon on fote fairly to-gedur. 1483Cath. Angl. 120 Fayrly, ornate. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. ii. 84 Was euer booke..So fairely bound? 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 131 Saint Germaines..was very fairely builded. 1819Byron Juan iii. lxxvi, To make The skin..appear more fairly fair. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 47 Raiment..Most fairly woven.
b. Of writing: Neatly, elegantly. arch.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. vi. 2 The Indictment..in a set Hand fairely is engross'd. 1717Berkeley Tour in Italy Wks. IV. 514 The book is fairly writ on vellum.
†2. Courteously, respectfully. Obs.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 233 Fairely I bespoke the Officer To go in person with me. 1608― Per. v. i 10, I pray ye, greet them fairly.
3. With due regard to equity; candidly, impartially; without undue advantage on either side.
1676Dryden Aureng-zebe iii. i, I interpret fairly your design. 1712Steele Spect. No. 272 ⁋1 Circumstances fairly represented in the Spectator. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 25/1 The Durbar charges were not just and fairly charged. 1783Ld. Hailes Antiq. Chr. Ch. iv. 72 The inferences that are fairly deducible from it. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 375 The counsel were by no means fairly matched. 1851Dixon W. Penn v. (1872) 47 In no corner of these islands were the Quakers treated fairly. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. xiii. 260 Only in the light of that time can they be fairly considered.
4. Becomingly, fitly, properly, suitably; proportionably.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. i. 128 My cheefe care Is to come fairely off from the great debts. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xx, The Bolt-heads, &c., being fairly parcelled. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments iv. ii. §24. 98 The Serum of the Blood is fairly substituted in its place. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 462 His time will be fairly, and I doubt not successfully employed. 1832H. Martineau Homes Abroad v. 74 You may fairly marry as soon as you like. 1892Sir A. Kekewich in Law Times Rep. LXVII. 139/1 The facts..may be fairly described in that manner.
b. By proper or lawful means, legitimately; opposed to foully.
1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 145, I will kill thee fairly, as becomes a good Knight. 1709Steele Tatler No. 38 ⁋3 [They] in decent Manner fought full fairly with their wrathful Hands. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. xi. 236 We came honestly and fairly by the ship. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian iii. 23 She came fairly by her death.
†5. Gently, peaceably, quietly, softly. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xiv. 61 It standes still and rynnez noȝt, or elles bot fairely. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 40 Guyon..with strong reason master'd passion fraile, And passed fayrely forth. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. v. 14 They parted very fairely in iest. 1634Milton Comus 168, I fairly step aside, And hearken.
6. Clearly, distinctly, plainly.
a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 490 The door fairly set open for him by Divine Providence. 1671Grew Anat. Plants. i. iii. §11 The Pores..by the help of good Glasses, are very fairly visible. 1828Scott F.M. Perth ii, [I] saw the bonny city lie stretched fairly before me. 1841Miall Nonconf. I. 2 It becomes dissenters fairly to avow it.
7. Completely, fully, quite, ‘clean’; actually, positively, really.
In written examples it is often difficult to know whether this or the very different sense 8 is intended; but in speech this confusion is prevented by the marked difference in intonation.
1596Spenser State Irel. (1633) 9 All which they neverthelesse fairely overcame. 1604in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 249 III. 216 He would wish him fairly buried before his eyes. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xx. 73 They fairly tore out one anothers throats with their teeth. 1713Guardian No. 42, I fairly nodded in the elbow-chair. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xx, I had some thoughts of fairly shipping back to England again. 1804–8Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 268, I never think of fairly sitting down for a conversation. 1823Lamb Elia, Poor Relation, When he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner..and feel fairly rid of two nuisances. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. vi. 500 The star of Harold was fairly in the ascendant. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 306 Our system..has fairly run away with us. 1873Tristram Moab iv. 64 We were fairly in the trap.
8. Moderately, passably, tolerably.
1805Wordsw. Waggoner i. 110, I am fairly safe to-night. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ix. 63 The structure of the ice was fairly developed. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1877) I. xiv. 215 He..rode fairly to hounds. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 9 People with whom the world goes fairly well materially.
9. Comb., as fairly-balanced, fairly-fitted.
1848Dickens Dombey (C.D. ed.) 8 They were..a..fairly-balanced, give-and-take couple. 1870Bryant Iliad I. iv. 115 He drew The arrow from the fairly-fitted belt. |