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† conˈfusely, adv. Obs.
[f. confuse a. + -ly2: cf. F. confusément.]
In a ‘confuse’ manner.
1. Confusedly, indistinctly, obscurely.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 185 In this lyfe we se and knowe god but confusely or derkly, as it were by a glasse. 1530Palsgr. 2 They be sounded either distinctly or..confusely. 1692South Serm. (1697) I. 361 The Retrieving of a thing at present forgot, or but confusely remembered. 1737Waterland Eucharist 53 He taught more confusely, what others after Him improved, and cleared.
2. In an intermixed way, without distinction of elements, promiscuously. Cf. confusedly 2 b.
c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camd. Soc.) I. 4 The entercourse..which they [common people] have with the nobilitie, confuselie dwellinge emonge them. 1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. (1568) 46 b, Take freshe floures of Rosemary two pound, Amber a scruple..all confusely together. 1578Cooper Thesaurus Introd., This diversity..I have not onely noted togyther confusely in the first exposition of the worde, but afterwarde dystinctlye each by itself.
3. Confusedly, in a disorderly manner.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 110 [To] bynd euery part ryght..and not crokedly and confusely. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lviii. 398 Doder..confusely winding it selfe about hedges and bushes. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. i. viii. (1622) 15 [Germanicus] perceiuing them confusely shuffled together. |