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soberly, adv.|ˈsəʊbəlɪ|
Also 4 sobreliche, -lyche, 5 sobirliche; 4–6 soburly (4 -li), sobirly (6 -lie), soberlie (6 -lye), etc.
[f. sober a. + -ly2. Cf. MDu. soberlike (Du. -lijk), MLG. soberliken.]
In a sober manner, in various senses of the adj.
1. Gravely, seriously, quietly; without any sign of excitement, impatience, or other strong feeling.
(a)13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 256 Soberly after þenne con ho say. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 857 This Philosophre sobrely answerde. c1400Destr. Troy 248 When Pelleus his proses hade..soburly said with a sad wille. c1440Alph. Tales 44 On þe morn..he com vnto þis Crasippus & tolde hym soberlie of his anger. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 544 The man that had the hound in cuir..Than soberlie askit agane the hound. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 45 The kyng of England..aunswered to his wordes so soberly, so grauely, and so princely. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 80 [He asked me] where was my money? to whom I soberly answered, I had no more then he saw.
(b)1382Wyclif Gen. xxxii. 22 Whanne sobirly [L. mature] he was arysun. c1386Chaucer Shipman's T. 255 Daun Johan sobrely This chapman took on-part, and prively Sayd him thus. c1425Lydg. Assembly of Gods 802 With countenaunce demure he roode full soburly. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 186 Thai maid offer to passe sobirly and curtaisly. 1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 130 Ladyes to dance full sobirly assayit. 1595Locrine iv. ii, My wife soberly sate rocking my little babie. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. v. 48 So he nodded, And soberly did mount an Arme-gaunt Steede. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 206 By being acquainted with their Keeper, and being soberly handled, you may with ease remove them from one Pasture to another. 1820Keats Isabella xx, Then the tale Shall move on soberly, as it is meet. 1884Manch. Exam. 21 Nov. 5/3 To keep the debate soberly within narrow channels.
(c)1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 35 If thou wilt deale soberlie without scoffes, thou shalt be answered grauely without iests. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 519 This is a matter then of which wee must speake very soberly, and with great reuerence of God. 1684B. Hale Pref. Contempl. State Man p. iii, I have soberly consider'd these Holy and Devout Contemplations. 1689Locke Govt. ii. ii, As he soberly judges the case to require. 1781Cowper Conversat. 667 That disease, when soberly defin'd, Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind. 1832H. Martineau Life in Wilds i. 7 That they would deliberate soberly. 1841Nonconformist I. 2 It becomes dissenters..soberly to set about it.
b. In all seriousness; with full conviction.
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 16, H. N. affirmeth very soberly as it seemeth that the Elders of his broode are illuminated. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 61 Agreeable to the faith of that age, miracles were soberly reported of him.
c. Without extravagance or excess.
1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 231 The cruelties of Mary's reign..which were neither accurately nor soberly related in the popular martyrologies. 1861Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. ix. 119 But these rights [of public meeting] must be soberly and moderately exercised.
2. With moderation in respect of natural appetites; temperately.
1340Ayenb. 248 Hire uor to wyne and habbe, me ssel libbe sobreliche ine þise wordle. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxii. 144 Þai liffe so temperately and so soberly in meet and drink. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xix. (1869) 14 Ye muste ete and drinke more sobirliche than oother folk. 1538Starkey England i. ii. 33 Yf men wold gouerne themselfe soburly by temperat dyat, then physycyonys were not to be requyryd. 1600Nashe Summer's Last Will 278 The silly beasts..will rather fall soberly to those thistles..then they will offer to breake their bounds. 1717Pope Iliad ix. 290 Then each..His thirst and hunger soberly repress'd. 1882Med. Temp. Jrnl. 146 They were..as soberly disposed a body of young men as one would wish to see.
3. In a poor, humble, or simple manner. ? Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 79 Þe childe..seide þat he couþe lyve soberliche, and þat lasse cost wolde doo his nede. 1533Bellenden Livy Prol. (S.T.S.) I. 2, I will assay How sobirly begouth þe romane blude. a1550Freiris Berwik 226 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 293 [That we] Sobirly our selffis dois sustene.
†4. Quietly, gently, in respect of motion.
1477Norton Ordin. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 85 Whereby Water maie soberly flowe, For violent Fluxes be perilous as nowe. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 251 This branch of Tacassin..towards Amina..runs soberly enough.
5. Not brightly or garishly.
1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 263 It was soberly lighted by a row of Gothic windows. |