obviouslyadv.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) iii. 304 Texts of holy Writ obviously writ or painted.

1668 M. Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. sig. b ij Other matters more obviously deducible by Argumentation.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. i. 302 The other two Islands were obviously enough incapable of furnishing us with any assistance.

1773 H. Mackenzie Man of World I. xv. 159 Their terms of salutation were so cold and forbidding, as obviously to show that the account of his circumstances had already reached them.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vi. 140 The last syllable, bog, is obviously..a mere corruption of the Saxon Burgh.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton iii Arthur..was obviously in a bad temper.

1914 M. Sinclair Three Sisters xlvii. 261 A much older man, closely attached to them, but not quite so obviously related.

1952 G. Vidal Judgm. of Paris i.v. 143 Obviously I would not travel to Florence with my lover.

1992 Lit. & Ling. Computing 7 27/1 As Greek libraries develop automated systems they obviously wish to have records in the Greek character set.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall ii. 22 In the dayes of Minucius it was obviously objected upon Christians, that they condemned the practise of burning.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 279 He that hath inspection therein but by the by and obviously.