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validly, adv.|ˈvælɪdlɪ| [f. as prec. + -ly2.] In a valid manner; with legal validity.
1637Gillespie Eng.-Pop. Cerem. iii. viii. 173 One simple Presbyter..can not validly give Ordination. 1681Baxter Answ. Dodwell iv. 45 May a man be validly a Bishop,..that believeth not that there is a God? 1767Chauncy Lett. (1768) 32 They may be validly commissioned to propagate the Gospel. 1791Boswell Johnson I. 137 A Highland gentleman..once consulted me if he could not validly purchase the chieftainship of his family from the chief. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. v. 25 The Court of Exchequer decided that impositions on exports and imports might be validly made by proclamation. 1883Weekly Notes 17 Nov. 170/2 He held that the Rule Committee were validly constituted and their power validly exercised. Comb.1848Soames Latin Church i. 16 note, Nor does the tale itself necessarily imply transubstantiation..whenever a validly-ordained consecrator intended it. |