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warily, adv.|ˈwɛərɪlɪ|
[f. wary a. + -ly2.]
In a wary manner, cautiously, † watchfully.
1552Huloet, Warilye, solerter, uigilanter. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. vii. 61 They that..ride not warily, fall into foule Boggs. 1605B. Jonson Volpone i. v, Shee's kept as warily, as is your gold: Neuer do's come abroad, neuer takes ayre, But at a windore. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. 33 More warily are we to receive the relations of Philes, who in Greeke Iambicks delivered the proprieties of Animals. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 914 It [sc. honey] is a heavenly gift, and very profitable for men, if they use it well and warily. 1747Wesley Prim. Physick (1762) 37 Take ripe Puff balls. Break them warily. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 163 Surrounded by snares in which an ordinary youth would have perished, William learned to tread at once warily and firmly. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 396 Their adversaries defend themselves warily from an invisible world. |