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safely, adv.|ˈseɪflɪ|
Forms: 3–4 sauveli, 3–5 saveliche, 4–5 -lich, -lych(e, -like, (compar. saveloker, -lokr), 4–5 salvely, 4–6 savely, (5–6 -lye, 6 -lie); 3–5 saufli, 4–5 saufliche, -lych(e, -like, sauffly, sawf(f)ly, 4–6 saufly, 6 saulfly(e, saulfely; 3–6 safly, 4–5 safliche, saff(e)ly, salfly, 6 saf(f)eli, Sc. saifly, 5– safely.
[f. safe a. + -ly2.]
In a safe manner.
1. Without harm or injury occasioned or received. Often with verbs of coming, going, keeping, and the like, where the adj. might be used (see safe a. 1).
a1300Cursor M. 4944 Lede þam sauueli [Gött. safly, Fairf. sauely] to þair land. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 6622 Sauelike held þey þer castels & touns. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 359 The queyn..sawffly come to the castell. 1418E.E. Wills (1882) 44 And also that it be put in a bagge, & asselid, and safly kepid. c1440Generydes 6456 Ye shall savely come and savely goo. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 178 How suld thai be callit sauf condytis, bot gif thai condyte thair maisteris saufly and surely? 1529Cromwell Will in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 58 All the which parcelles of plate and houseold stuf I will shalbe savelye kept to thuse of my saide Soonne Gregorye. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxi. 58 They aryuyd sauely at the port of Jaffe. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, v. i. 70 God safely quit her of her Burthen. 1635Hakewill Apol. v–vi. 116 The earth being safely delivered from that inundation. 1765Warburton in W. & Hurd's Lett. (1809) 365, I hope this will find you safely returned. 1853C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe xliii, They were safely at home again the same evening. 1859Clough Poems, etc. (1869) I. 239 Your article..came safely to hand. 1868Thirlwall Lett. (1881) II. 169, I send the Contemporary Review by this post. Pray let me know that it has reached you safely. 1891Law Times XC. 461/2 She was in the train, lawfully.., and therefore a duty was cast upon the company of carrying her safely.
2. In a manner free from danger or hazard; securely, without risk.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) I. 347 (Harl. MS.) Ȝe mowe sauflyche þet holy þyng as he dude auonge. a1300Cursor M. 686 Be-tuix þe wolues lai þe schepe, Sauueli [Gött. saufli, Fairf. sauely] moght þai samen slepe. 1390Gower Conf. II. 248 And thanne he may saufliche ynowh His Oxen yoke into the plowh. c1400Rowland & O. 1362 Ther myghte no wapen his medys ryfe, So Savely was he dighte. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. §12 Are we not hereby..admonished which wee may safeliest cleaue vnto? 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 837 Nor safely cou'd they shear the fleecy Store. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 162 ⁋4 No man can safely do that by others, which might be done by himself. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 205 He could not safely venture to outrage all his Protestant subjects at once. 1884Manch. Exam. 29 May 4/7 The demand for advances will exceed..the sum which the State can safely or conveniently lend.
b. Without risk of error.
c1350Will. Palerne 3051 But saufly þis may [i] seye & þe soþe proue. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 33 For o thinge, sires, saufly dar I seie. 1390Gower Conf. I. 308 Bot I dar saufly make an oth, Mi ladi was me nevere loth. 1573T. Cartwright Reply to Whitgift's Answ. 17 Howe can we doe safelyer then to follow the Apostles customes? 1647Greaves Roman Foot 103 Therefore wee may the safelier give credit to them. 1710Addison Tatler No. 250 ⁋1, I can safely say, I acted according to the best of my Understanding. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 26 Such a one (safeliest spoken of by the neuter pronoun). 1875T. W. Higginson Hist. U.S. xxxii. 328 We can safely assume something more than this.
†3. In safe confinement or custody. Obs.
c1420Brut 429 All his prisoneris weren..brought into the Toure of London, to kepe hem there-ynne saufly. 1505Mem. Hen. VII (Rolls) 268 That he shuld resayve and savely kepe the said rebell. 1601Shakes. All's Well iv. i. 104 Ile keepe him darke and safely lockt. 1611Bible Acts xvi. 23 Charging the Iaylour to keepe them safely.
†4. With confidence or assurance. Obs.
1609Bible (Douay) 2 Kings xvi. Comm., King David was here abused by false information: to which he ought not so safely to have geven credite. 1674Campion Art of Descant 38 Doing that safely and resolutely which others attempt timorously and uncertainly. |