a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 980 (MED) Scarsely cowde I charre a-way þe kyte That me bireue wolde my pullaile, And more axith housbondly gouernaylle.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 82 Oeconomicall prouision, husbandly furniture, expert trading, thriftie frugalitie, and carefull foresight, to store vp [etc.].

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 7 The course I haue formerly prescribed, I hold most Husbandly for his profit.

1707 O. Blackall Blessedness of Poor in Spirit 17 He..is nevertheless oblig'd to be Frugal and Husbandly, and not to lavish..what he has.

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 195 Lord Rochester..who was working the husbandly Point to save the Pension.

1950 New Colophon II. 311 Robert Frost could never be justly accused of other than good and husbandly care of the gifts bestowed upon him,..although there are amiable imprudences to prove the rule.

1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) ii. ix. sig. Fiiii^v Ye will..as soone stop gaps with russhes, As with any husbandly handsome busshes.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xviii. 473 The domesticall, or husbandly beanes, do growe in feeldes and gardens.

1606 R. Peterson tr. G. Botero Treat. Magnificencie Cities ii. xi. 76 There is not a little scratt of ground that is not husbandly and very well manured.

1568 T. Hill Pleasaunt Instr. Orderinge of Bees (title page) in Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) Certaine husbandly coniectures of dearth and plentie for euer, and other matters also meete for husbandmen to knowe.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 42^v Though neuer so much, a good huswife doth care, that such as doe labour, haue husbandlie fare.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. vi. 75 The performance of certaine inferiour and husbandly seruices vnto the Lord of the Fee.

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved To Rdr. sig. b2 As our English climate and best husbandly experience will admit.

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 627 He discoursed..[with] his Woodman, about felling some of his woods, & what money he might make to fell them in a husbandly way.

1791 T. Pennant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 80 Old Tusser, in his Account of the Christmas Husbandlie Fare.

1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. iii. viii. 251 Tusser, who wrote for the yeomanry, would not have selected it [sc. the triple measure], as the chief medium for conveying to them his husbandly lessons.

1942 H. J. Massingham Eng. Countryman v. 89 Squire Somerville..was..the reflective appraiser of husbandly plenty.

1569 A. Golding tr. N. Hemmingsen Postill f. 290 Hee embraceth hir with pitie: that is too saye with husbandly affection.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 353 He loveth his Church, with more then an husbandly love.

1679 T. Shadwell True Widow v. 78 I will lead a solid, sober, Husbandly life, if you will marry me.

1730 J. Hughes tr. B. Le Bovier de Fontenelle Dialogues of Dead (ed. 2) i. ix. 50 I must confess 'twou'd have cruelly mortify'd my Husbandly Pride.

1769 Oxf. Mag. 2 142/2 The timid offspring of husbandly authority.

1794 H. Walpole Let. 21 Sept. in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1865) I. 436 I..only write now in husbandly obedience.

1882 D. Masson Carlyle in Macmillan's Mag. 45 248 How husbandly [he would be] in his looks round to his wife when she interjected one of her bright and witty remarks.

1907 M. B. Lowndes Barbara Rebell xxi. 354 He saw Berwick suddenly bend down and kiss each of the traveller's pale cheeks, in French husbandly fashion.

1971 C. McGregor Don't Talk to Me about Love (1972) 133 He detached his hand and ran it with husbandly brazenness over her bottom.

2008 New Yorker 15 Dec. 89/2 She..wants to be left alone; he..wants the husbandly right to soothe her.

1532 G. Hervet tr. Xenophon Treat. House Holde f. 59 If the grounde be wel tylled and husbandly handled.

a1550 (a1477) Black Bk. (Public Rec. Office) in A. R. Myers Househ. Edward IV (1959) 178 To knowe howe honorably and husbandly the officers handill and minister the kinges goodes.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 4 Some husbandly thriueth that neuer had wyfe, yet scarce a good husband in goodnesse of lyfe.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 46 He is very thrifty, and husbandly he payes & takes.

1671 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1888) VI. Two gentlemen named to see the money husbandly employed.

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 24 However moderately and husbandly the Cause was managed.