nativelyadv.

1542 T. Becon Pleasaunt Newe Nosegaye sig. L.iiij^v That ye myghte natiuely & vnfaynedlye on this sorte loue youre neyghbour.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 110 To represent so natiuely to vs the blindnesse of the great, and rich of this world.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 191 To speak natively and distinctly.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 300 This is more natively and clearly laid down in Sacred Philosophie.

1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 53 In lieu of expressing their thoughts natively, they are troubled and confounded.

1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 59 There is nothing even or natively done in their behaviours.

1737 A. Hill Tears of Muses 12 Scarce had th' imploring Accents voic'd her Pray'r, When the known Sounds and recollected Air Through the false Semblance, natively convey'd, To the charm'd Prince, a speaking Muse, betray'd.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 107 They will let you break all the commandments, if you do it natively, and with spirit.

1895 R. Hovey tr. S. Mallarmé Herodias in Chap-bk. 1 Jan. 178 If the warm blue summer sky That woman natively unveils before, See me in my star-shivering shamefastness, I die!

1920 L. Binyon Two Desires in Secret xxii. 36 Yet not because shadow-fearing or world-defeated But natively in its own unprompted sort, Because of desire profounder than desire.

1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 374 Though it arise most natively from the words, and be clearly verifiable.

a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 50 This natively follows on that desire.

1745 J. Wesley Wks. (1830) I. 496 I often thought since I was favoured with this letter how far it natively and clearly went.

1831 Biblical Repertory 3 509 Who can doubt that all its [sc. the Bible's] influence natively tends..to beget and to mature a perfect sense of perfect accountability?

1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 69 Yoong men, natiuely brought vp in temperate regions.

1609 C. Tourneur Funerall Poeme sig. B1 Labour increas'd what natively was bred.

1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 79 I cannot tell how any thing should bee evill natively.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 111 How they [sc. spiders] are natively provided with a stock, sufficient for such Texture.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 211. ⁋4 There is something so natively great and good in a Person that is truly devout.

1772 G. A. Stevens Common Sense in Songs, Comic & Satyrical 95 If chance she is seen, tho' for fear we mistake her, She's natively neat, like a lovely young Quaker.

1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title III. 211 One of the most natively lovely figures of the sex.

1815 F. Burney Jrnl. in Jrnls & Lett. (1980) VIII. 466 M. D'Arblay again joined me—revived, by his natively martial spirit.

1867 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 9) iii. i. 290 Virtue or moral good is not natively known by the mind as an abstract or general idea.

1881 J. Cairns in Christian World Pulpit 19 315 That which is not natively great cannot be truly or pre-eminently great.

1934 H. Belloc Cromwell i. 11 He had good-fellowship in him—which is what one might expect from a man natively a soldier.

1985 New Yorker 15 Apr. 41/3 Mme. Carette implored him to find someone, not a Greek, of the right kind: sober, established, Catholic, French-speaking, natively Canadian.

1993 M. Sebba London Jamaican (BNC) 38 In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition, but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base.

1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 90 Hayrie men natiuely appertaine vnder regions hote and drie.

1629 J. Lightfoot Erubhin 118 I take two names giuen to Christ..to be natiuely Chaldee words.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 226 The Tuscan Order..is peculiarly and natively our own.

1887 Cent. Mag. May 26/1 A marked refinement betrays her superiority in rank and race to everything natively Egyptian.

a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) i. 6 These were the places, where the Greeke tongue was natiuely and vulgarly spoken, either originally, or by reason of Colonies.

1958 M. L. Wolf Dict. Painting 88 Dry brush, in Chinese art, a painting technique in which the ink is used sparingly with a minimum of moisture in the brush; known natively as kan pi.

1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 68 This paper will not concern itself with English as spoken natively in Africa.

1991 Amer. Speech 66 138 Private conversations tend to employ the native vernacular, which, for many slave descendants, corresponds to a narrower American population consisting of speakers who have not learned standard English natively.