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lawfully, adv.|ˈlɔːfʊlɪ|
[f. lawful + -ly2.]
In a lawful manner.
1. a. In accordance with law.
a1300Cursor M. 26111 Scrift es opin scheuing o breist Laufulli mad be-for þe preist. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 74 Þes false men seye in here doyinge þat crist was lafully don to the deþ. c1400Destr. Troy 3512 Qwyle ye lawfully lefe may & your lyf haue. c1430Freemasonry 300 Ȝet most the mayster, by good resone, Warne hem lawfully by-fore none. c1470Henryson Tale of Dog 66 This exceptioun Wes of na strenth, nor lauchfullie mycht stand. a1500Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 208 This woman..Was wedded lawfullye this other yeaire. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 9 Preamble, The heires males of his body laufully begoten. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 165 b, Thus..we may perceyue what thoughtes..we may lawfully admyt..in y⊇ tyme of the seruyce of god. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 242 b, That the kyng might lawfully mary where he would. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 5 General counsallis lauchfully gaderit in the halye spreit. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 58 Ȝit thair is lesum lufe That law fully suld lest. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech., Confess. 9 Adulterie lauchefullie prouen. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. Table 74 The defender being lawfullie summoned, may vse his lawfull essonzeis. 1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. III. 102 There are certain bounds..which neither you nor we can lawfully passe. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xiv. 69 What I lawfully Covenant, I cannot lawfully break. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. xvi. (1793) 573 He may lawfully correct his child, being under age, in a reasonable manner. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1116 The declaration ought to have stated, that the mare was lawfully on the common. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 316 Without having issue on her body lawfully begotten. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 159 Each provincial assembly might lawfully have a permanent president. 1885Dunckley in Manch. Weekly Times 24 Feb. 5/5, I cannot pray for those who are engaged, however lawfully as men may think, in shedding blood.
b. In accordance with laws of nature.
1959M. Bunge Causality i. 22 The principle of universal lawfulness does not assert that facts are determined by laws, but in accordance with laws, or simply lawfully.
†2. Loyally, faithfully. Obs.
c1500Melusine vi. 32 And indide I lawfully [Fr. leaulment] promytte you that so shal I doo. |