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a1450 L. Power Treat. on Counterpoint in Speculum (1935) 10 242 (MED) Whoso wil syng manerli & musikili, he may not lepe to þe 15the in no maner of discant, for it longith to no mannys voys.

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1659 Ioyne your elementis Musicallye, For ij causis: one is for melodye.

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 81 In weddings they were wont to playe musically.

1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. B4 By the third is cald to question most that musically fret their time out in idle baubling.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. xv. 260 That a Sound..may powerfully operate upon the Blood and Spirits, I, who am very Musically given, have divers times observ'd in my self.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 36 Poems and songs..which they sing, not musically as we do, but with a certain tone, which though at first..not pleasing, yet by custom becomes agreeable enough to the ear.

1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 14 Thine too those musically-falling Founts To slake the clammy Lip.

1748 J. Hervey Medit. (ed. 2) II. 56 A Melody..far more musically pleasing than sweet Philomela's sweetest Strains.

1791 Asiatick Researches 2 374 Though their [sc. the Chinese] common tongue be so musically accented as to form a kind of recitative, yet it wants those grammatical accents, without which [etc.].

1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxiii. 66 Ellis quietly answered, that she was not very musically inclined.

1854 Trans. Philol. Soc. 19 Such a line would be measured musically by four measures or bars.

1878 C. C. Clarke & M. C. Clarke Recoll. Writers 179 Miss Lamb promised to..hear her read poetry with the due musically-rhythmical intonation.

1885 Liverpool Daily Post 7 May 5/3 Mr. Ball took snuff with all his friends, sneezing musically after each pinch.

1928 Gramophone 6 300/1 With a musically artistic legato rhythmic swing and not ‘jazzily’.

1967 Listener 14 Sept. 350/3 As a rock group..the Kinks don't rate musically.

1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate i. xviii. 148 Light drifted all round, riffled like water, musically ringing.

1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. in U.S. II. i. 7 The Americans, I think, are a very musically inclined people.

1946 Speculum 21 195 It seems almost as though the same musically-inclined person were brought to despair by the discordant howls of the inept choristers and the clatter of the ‘swarte smekyd smeþes’.

1994 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 17/5 One of the most dextrous people in Gloucestershire is Keith Harding, a musically inclined horologist with a museum of music boxes.