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clearly, adv.|ˈklɪəlɪ|
[f. clear + -ly2.]
In a clear manner.
†1. Brightly; luminously; transparently. Obs. (exc. as blended with 2).
c1350Will. Palerne 4422 Into a choys chaumber þe clerli was peinted. 1375Barbour Bruce vi. 100 The moyn wes schynand rycht cleirly. 1535Fisher Wks. 381 They bee the brighter glasses and more cleerly receyue this loue. 1655Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 17, I have discover'd so many fresh Graces in her, and those shine so clearly. a1656Bp. Hall Invis. World i. §2 The spiritual agility and clearly-lightsome nature of that whereby they are enlived.
2. With optical distinctness; without obscurity; opposed to dimly.
c1300St. Brandan 461 Hi seȝe in the see as clerliche as hi scholde alonde. 1340Ayenb. 38 Þanne we him ssolle ysy face to face clyerlyche. 1382Wyclif Mark viii. 25 He is restorid so that he syȝ clerely alle thingis. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 243/3 The more he wente..the more clerlyer he sawe. 1820Keats Isabel xlvi, Clearly she saw..Pale limbs at bottom of a crystal well. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §11. 79 The top of the mountain rose clearly above us.
3. Of mental vision: With undimmed perception, with full and complete understanding; distinctly.
c1400Beryn 3867 They perseyvid clerelich in the plee thurh out hir ffrendis had the worse side. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. ii. (1483) 59 That thou knowe clerely how that this drye tree was restablysshed. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 84 Not clearly discerning the almost obliterated constitution of your ancestors. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims Wks. (Bohn) III. 153 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola (1880) I. ii. xxxii. 390 He had begun to see clearly that he could not persuade her into assent. 1884Gladstone in Standard 29 Feb. 2/5, I hope that will be clearly understood.
4. With clearness and distinctness of expression or exposition; plainly.
a1300Cursor M. 18851 Clerli spak he þat he wald. 1340Ayenb. 174 He ssel zigge his zennes clyerliche and nakedliche. 1388Wyclif Isa. Prol., The sacramens of ther beleeue to shewe ful clerly to the hethene. a1535More On the Passion Wks. 1322/1 For to declare the more clearelye, that the cause of his desyre, was, etc. 1611Bible Job xxxiii. 3 My lippes shall vtter knowledge clearely. 1647Cowley Mistr., Her Unbelief iii. (1669) 71 Nor does the Cause in thy Face clearlier shine, Than the Effect appears in mine. 1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. 356 To put the matter shortly and clearly.
5. Manifestly; evidently.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 287 But Britaine was clerely excepted. 1595Shakes. John iii. iv. 122 In this which he accounts so clearely wonne. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxv. 218 There be many other places that clearly prove the same. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 191 ⁋14 They, who have been so clearly detected in ignorance or imposture. 1875Jevons Money (1878) 20 A statement clearly implying that skins were taken as the representative of value.
b. Used parenthetically, = .., it is clear,..; the truth or correctness of the assertion being the thing that is clear.
1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. App. 744 This version is clearly wrong. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 187 He was clearly not aware of the importance of the principle. 1879Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §67 The animal has clearly no power over them.
6. With distinctness of sound; audibly.
1382Wyclif 1 Sam. xiv. 19 Greet noyse is out sprongen..and it wexe litilmele, and cleerliker it sownyde. c1450Merlin xiv. 207 That the sownde was herde in to the Citee clerly. 1721Lond. Gaz. No. 6002/3 Does not pronounce his Words clearly.
†7. Honestly; straightforwardly, frankly. Obs.
1389in Eng. Gilds. (1870) 4 So þt þe wardeins mowe here acompt ȝeld clerelich. 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) T vij b, I thanke the goddes immortall, that haue suffred me to lyue so clerely. 1603Drayton Odes ii. 13 Thy ancient Vigils yeerely I have observed cleerely. a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law 28 If an heire..doe not deale clearely with the court when he is sued, that is, if he come not in immediately. a1694Tillotson (J.), Deal clearly and impartially with yourselves.
†8. Thoroughly; completely; unreservedly; entirely; = clean. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B xviii. 389 Thei shul be clensed clereliche & wasshen of her synnes In my prisoun purgatorie. c1440Generydes 1063 The kyng hym gaue clerly an Erlys lande. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 1 Lette a man make a castell towre or any maner of newe buyldinges and finysshe it clerely. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 685 Clerely to extinguish the house of Yorke. 1633T. James Voy. 105 When the snow was cleerliest gone off the ground. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 24 The bones were not so clearly pickt, but some coals were found amongst them. 1816Philip Quarll 67 They went clearly away.
†9. Without deduction, net,; = clear 16. Obs.
1462J. Paston in Lett. 461 II. 114 Havyng a certeyn pension for her sustentacion payid clerly in money without any Charge. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 22 b, Landes to the value of xls. clerely aboue all charges. 1638Sir R. Cotton Abstr. Rec. Tower 25 By which his Majesty should gaine ten hundred thousand pound cleerely.
†10. Without entanglement or embarrassment; = clear 18. Obs.
1607–12Bacon Ess. Despatch (Arb.) 248 He that doth not devide, will never enter well into businesse; and he that devideth to much, will never come out of it clearelye. 1663Charleton Chorea Gigant. 12 Over which the other leaped cleerly, without so much as ever touching it. |