properlyadv.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 78 Lokið hu propreliche þe lauedi in canticis..leareð ow bi hire saȝe hu ȝe schule seggen.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 672 (MED) He wend to haue lauȝt þat ladi loueli in armes, & clipte to him a pulwere & propirly it gretes, and welcomes hir worþli..þat puluere clept he certeisly & kust it ful ofte.

c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 69 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 210 He send til hyme þane a paynteore..to paynt his fygur propirly.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 86 (MED) Thei wist not propirly to whom thei shulde or ought to do the perfeccion of this honoure which longith to the deite.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. b2^v Marke..how properlye that substancyall reason wherwith they go aboute to stablish purgatorye concludeth.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 372 Those famous sheep called Pacos which serve as properly for carriage as horses.

1724 J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger Epist. & Panegyrick I. vi. xxx. 312 You very properly think of Rufus, for he was an Acquaintance of your Son.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 95 Law can never regulate them [sc. wages] properly . View more context for this quotation

1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude III. xlviii. 73 He took leave affectionately and yet properly.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxiii. 71 Take the horse back, and clean him properly.

1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. (1879) vi. xxxvii. 219 If the object-glass does not perform its part properly.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View ii. 35 Built by faith indeed! That simply means the workmen weren't paid properly.

1964 J. Mitchell White Father x. 227 She nodded and said I was to tell you she hoped you were keeping well and eating properly.

1983 M. Roberts Visitation i. ii. 11 Her eyes so swollen with crying that she cannot see properly where she is going.

1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army ii. 15 Their own sergeant..is their parent for the duration since he's the one who has to get them up, make sure they're properly dressed and off to school on time.

2006 Miami Herald (Nexis) 26 Feb. d1 Several U.S. Olympians on hand for a wrap-up news conference spoke of their obligation to behave properly on and off the field of play.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 34 (MED) Ac specialliche and propreliche, of þe rote of auarice guoþ out manye smale roten, þet byeþ wel greate dyadliche zennes.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 297 Þe frogge..makeþ nouȝt þat voice but oonliche in water, And propreliche þe male in tyme of loue whanne he cryeþ for þe female.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xliii. 73 (MED) This Owhte for ȝow to ben Chastysinge; And this belongeth to ȝow properly.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. d ii/a That terme, draw, is propurli assigned to that hawke that will slee a Roke or a Crow or a Reuyn.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 19 A certane schort..grase, quhairin scheip properlie delytes.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. viii. §5. 130 A subject hath nothing properly his owne against the will of the Supreme Authority.

1823 W. Scott Peveril III. ii. 50 One would think mischief was so properly thy element, that to thee it was indifferent whether friend or foe was the sufferer.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Kings Prol. 37 Þese ben þe fyue bookis of Moises, þe whiche þei clepyn propreli thorath, þat is, þe lawe.

c1390 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 280 (MED) Þis desyre is not propurli loue, but hit is a begynnyng..For loue is propurli ful couplyng of þe louer & þe loued to-geder.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 20 (MED) For if ‘makyng of nouȝt’ schulde be take and be undirstonde propirli, it is not trewe þat god þanne made Adam of nouȝt, forwhi þe mater of his bodi was bifore.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xiv. 1 Tabernakile propirly is the mansyon of feghtand men.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxiiij If we wil properly & exactly speake, accordyng to the difinition of the word.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. i. 7 He keepes me rustically at home, or (to speak more properly) staies me heere at home vnkept. View more context for this quotation

1674 W. Allen Danger of Enthusiasm 128 Carefully avoiding to take words properly, which are spoken metaphorically.

1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 7 Are those Things only perceived by the Senses which are perceived immediately? Or may those Things properly be said to be Sensible, which are perceived mediately.

1750 J. Mayhew Disc. Submission 18 These expressions are absolute and unlimited (or more properly, general).

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. ii. 17 Greece properly so called, that is, as distinguished from Macedonia.

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) i. iii. 71 Virtue is not virtue, properly speaking, when it is constrained.

1913 W. Cather O Pioneers! iv. i. 211 The French Church, properly the Church of Sainte-Agnes, stood upon a hill.

1974 J. B. Morton Beachcomber 182 She is now the Captain's general manager at Katzphur House or, as it is more properly called, Maison Katzphur.

1997 National Geographic Traveler July 99/1 The North Cascades, properly speaking, are the last hundred miles or so just south of the Canadian border.

c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3320 Yclad he was ful smal and proprely, Al in a kirtel of a light waget.

c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 509 (MED) Þe Orisoun is of seynt Ambrose, Þat he properly in prose Made in his preyere.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 107 Made of precious stanes so properly and so curiousely þat it semez as it ware a vyne growand.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 134 (MED) In þat land er many papeiais..and þai speke of þaire awen kynde als properly as a man.

c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 62 (MED) ‘Apparaile þe propirli,’ quod Pride.

?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Cvj^v I can pranke it properly.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Properly or trymme, concinne, dextre.

1732 Earl of Oxford in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 159 I never saw hills so properly and so finely clothed.

1740–87 Lett. Miss Talbot, &c. (1808) 19 A mean dressed man got up into a tree, and from thence harangued them very properly.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1926 (MED) For now he proches for pride & propurly he wedis, For-þi him bose to be bett as a barne fallis.

a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) 3283 Prosperite & proride [read pride] propyrly me blyndyd.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xxiv. sig. Di^v For certayne I thoughte properly it had ben you.

1664 S. Pepys Diary 24 June (1971) V. 188 Such variety of pictures and other things of value and rarity, that I was properly confounded.

1724 J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger Epist. & Panegyrick I. iv. xv. 186 Things that wait their due Time, are not properly ripen'd, but are of later Growth.

1816 W. Scott Let. 29 May (1933) IV. 242 Economy is the order of the day, and I can assure you they are shaving properly close.

1895 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 309 They beat us properly..we polled about half what they did.

1896 Daily News 18 Mar. 3/6 The accused said he got ‘properly drunk’.

1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door App. 305 Those moorland waters have to flow further down the haughs before they properly enter human life.

1969 N. E. Cameron Trumpet 22 They properly hate the Catholics and preach terribly against us, words that I won't repeat.

1990 P. Melville Shape-shifter (1991) 38 On the first day she felt properly well, Millie sat out on the front steps.

1929 L. Weisner tr. E. Galois in D. E. Smith Source Bk. in Math. 281 It is easy to see that it [sc. a group] is not further properly decomposable.

1968 E. T. Copson Metric Spaces i. 6 The set A is..properly contained in B if every member of A belongs to B and there is at least one member of B which does not belong to A.

2001 Amer. Math. Monthly 108 545 The..functions are properly contained in the class of functions that are differentiable almost everywhere.