articulatelyadv.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. v. sig. Ciij^v Englishe..cleane, polite, perfectly and articulately pronounced.

1562 in Registrum Matthei Parker 1 (1928) II. 620 Then the Questmen to be cauled..and..their charge shalbe geven vnto them..monishinge them to make answere directlie and articulatelie vppon their othes to every article in writinge.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. ii. 16 To speake audibly and articulatly.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxix. 367 The voice from the Pulpit will not be heard so articulately as it would be if there were no vaulting.

1696 J. Edwards Demonstr. Existence God i. 20 The Lips..serve also for the forming of the Voice, and help in speaking and pronouncing of words articulately.

1715 J. Barker Exilius ii. 70 Finding her speak articulately and rationally in the Roman Language, I understood this Creature was really a Woman.

1790 C. Macaulay Lett. on Educ. v. 75 Let it be therefore the sole care of the tutor, to teach his pupil to speak plainly, clearly, articulately, and without affectation.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. v. 110 Sir Bingo..swore louder and more articulately than ever he was known to utter any previous sounds.

1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol III. ii. xvi. 110 He warbled..so articulately that the whole of the front row very nearly heard him.

1903 H. James Ambassadors iii. vi. 77 The two English ladies..he would even have articulately greeted if they hadn't rather chilled the impulse.

1946 N. Coward Diary 14 Dec. (2000) 70 I have seldom been more angry inside, but I kept my head and told them articulately exactly what I thought.

2004 Time Out 31 Mar. 68/1 The film begins with Aileen..reflecting quite articulately on the beauty myths and fairytales which have brought her nothing but destitution and despair.

a1581 E. Campion Let. in T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. (1655) ix. 116 I had articulatly set down in writing our points.

1620 Bp. Snowden in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 124 A more full declaracion of the matter is articulately expressed in the note.

1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 258 The Indistinctness of the Remarker's fancy would crumple up things together, which Grotius by virtue of his skill in History has explicated more articulately.

1765 Mem. W. Fordyce 6 James Smith himself was articulately and distinctly examined upon the subject-matter of those accounts.

1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. vi. 135 A detail of examples, distinctly and articulately proposed.

1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors II. lv. 394 He then goes over the different charges articulately.

1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations iii. 58 The sense of Ephraims μονωδία, thus sadly muttered, 'tis possible you may not articulately understand.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. §20 Christians that..do all of them explicitly and articulately long after the glories of an eternal love.

1680 J. Hinckley Fasciculus Literarum 66 I find in your late Book, not only oblique Reflections, but direct and down-right Expressions; wherein (without any Ambages) you articulately signifie your discontent both with me and my Book.

1724 J. Maubray Female Physician vii. vi. 371 So it is with the Foetus in the Womb, if oppos'd and resisted by the Constriction or Coarctation of the Place,..its members cannot possibly be articulately and distinctly form'd.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 118 A drum, a cymbal, or the violent strokes of the Curetes, and Salii, on their shields, as they would have marked the time more articulately, so they would have produced more miraculous effects than the sweetest voice.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiv. v. 692 It is the first time her Hungarian Majesty steps articulately forward with such extraordinary Claim of Damages.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 207 We can come to think distinctly and articulately what before we thought confusedly and indistinctly.

1968 R. J. Lifton Death in Life 6 Hiroshima struck me as the only place in Japan where people were still, vividly and articulately, aware of World War II.

1994 P. Birks in A. D. E. Lewis & D. J. Ibbetson Rom. Law Trad. iii. 41 The difference must have been articulately understood much earlier.

1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Introd. sig. c2^v/1 By this Curious Artifice the Various Sounds Arising from the Vibrations of the External Air, are Modifi'd, and Articulately Represented to the Auditory Nerve.

1727 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead I. vii. 193 [Our Body] is form'd of several parts of Matter, articulately jointed and coagmented together.

1979 K. Biernatowski in O. G. Inglis Proc. 3rd Internat. Conf. Appl. Statistics & Probability in Soil & Struct. Engin. III. 253 A system of continuous strip foundations joined articulately with a superstructure.