judiciouslyadv.

1593 G. Harvey New Let. Notable Contents sig. B2 They are iudiciously wise,..that dare not vse other otherwise, then themselues would be vsed.

1601 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. Introd. 1 To excite..some other..farre more fully, iudiciously, and learnedly to accomplish this busines.

1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes iii. 91 Opium..is now imployed as a noble remedy, as indeed it is, if skilfully prepared and judiciously exhibited.

1726 A. Pope in tr. Homer Odyssey V. Postscr. 304 In reading a style judiciously antiquated, one finds a pleasure not unlike that of travelling on an old Roman way.

1755 P. Delany in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 388 She read and wrote two languages correctly and judiciously.

1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV II. 325 [There are] few examples of remote dependencies upon great empires being well or judiciously governed.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar vi. 56 Money judiciously distributed among the leading politicians had secured the Senate's connivance.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 158/3 By planning judiciously I hoped to be able to spend a whole month adventuring abroad.

1987 E. Ronay Bird's Eye Guide Healthy Eating Out 106 Drink sweet or salted lassi with your judiciously spiced meal at this friendly vegetarian restaurant.

2011 New Yorker 28 Mar. 60/1 [She] believes that there is no figure problem..that can't be solved with a little judiciously placed Lycra.

1604 Abp. G. Abbot Reasons Dr. Hill Vnmasked ix. 358 They are so impossible to be overcome in disputation, that if one will deale iudiciously with them, hee shall sooner bee helde guilty of some other evill then convince and cleere that which is theirs.

1709 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1852) V. 233 The said William..being interrogat vhat was in the said chists, declaired judiciouslie that he knew not.

1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews iii. xv, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 94 God..had judiciously condemned them to that punishment.

1782 W. Cowper Let. 23 Nov. (1981) II. 94 Though I love my Country I hate its follies and its Sins, and had rather see it scourged in mercy, than judiciously harden'd by prosperity.

1889 Manifesto Oct. 234/2 The cemetery, where so many sinners are lying—even such as have not been condemned judiciously.

1900 Amer. Law Reg. 48 699 Even though the allegation be made..with an honest belief in its truth, and yet should be judiciously determined false in fact in an action brought against them.

2011 Nation (Pakistan) (Nexis) 8 Apr. ZAB [= Zulfikar Ali Bhutto] was judiciously murdered by the establishment.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. vii How many [Englishmen] have I met with..most judiciously terming the best of them [sc. Moors and Arabs], Savages.

1760 Ovid's Metamorphoses ii. 160 When Apollo rais'd his ivory lute..the judge's ear was pleas'd, who soon judiciously decreed the palm, and to the squeaking pipe prefer'd the lute.