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currently, adv.|ˈkʌrəntlɪ|
[f. current a.]
1. In the manner of a flowing stream; with easy rapid movement; smoothly, fluently, readily. Now rare.
1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 68 The English wordes..wyll become any one of ye most accustomed sortes of Latine or Greeke verses meetely, and run thereon somewhat currantly. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. xv. i. (1622) 223 Neither went things currantly with him..the siege tooke no effect. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. lxx. 900 The spouts will not runne currantly, if we pump not deep. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 71 To pare old Trenches..whose Edges will grow so thick with Grass, that thou canst not get thy water to pass currently. 1768Woman of Honor I. 131 Lady Harriet..very currently took her share of the intended presents. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 58 While he holds the reins we roll smoothly and currently along. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. ix. (1819) 122 How currently does the work proceed! 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. xi. 187 Able to read in public currently and correctly.
2. In current use, practice, opinion, belief, report, or acceptance; generally, commonly among mankind, popularly; now, at the present time.
1580North Plutarch (1676) 320 Songs and Ballads..currantly Sung in every place. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxiii. 167 Many..which beare that name, and currantly passe among us. 1719J. Richardson Sc. Connoisseur 89 A Story which passes very currently. 1850Prescott Peru II. 337 He..was detained at home, as currently reported, by illness. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. i. (1876) 5 The view currently taken. 1947J. Hayward Prose Lit. since 1939 ii. 20 The same writer..is currently writing a section of the secret history of the war. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation vi. 187 These were probably the two most exciting and original games [of postal chess] he was currently playing. 1971Daily Tel. 8 June 10/3 They are currently to be seen at the Hampstead Theatre Club.
†3. With a common current or direction of evidence, opinion, etc. Obs.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. Pref. (J.), Which maketh the simple and ignorant to think they even see how the word of God runneth currently on your side. 1658Baxter Saving Faith §3. 15 In which you know how currantly the schoolmen..are against you. |