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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 110^v Signes, forsoþ, of þe spicez of þe lepre..som beþ vniouoca, som equiuoca; Vniuoca ar said which euermore signifieþ þe lepre and folweþ it ouþer intensly or remissely [?c1425 Paris by..remyssioun; L. remisse].

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 34 In December and Ianuarie the cold groweth somewhat more sharpe:..howbeit this happeneth in the morning onely, but so gently and remissely, that no man careth greatly to warme himselfe by the fire.

1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie v. xvii. 314 And therefore, it will worke in them awhile, though at length, weakly and remissely.

1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. v. 142 Being much deaded..and burning very remisly in Summer time and hot Weather.

1725 R. Burrow Meletemata Darringtoniana iv. 88 They may strive faintly and remissly, soon discontinue and give up their Attempt and Hope.

1902 Science 3 Oct. 547/1 The sun or the fire or some other agent..that agitated more vehemently its parts before, does either now cease to agitate them or agitates them but very remissly.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 24 The consonant shalbe but remissely sounded.

1584 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 95 He pronounceth the i so remissely, as it is scarce heard.

1533 Anno XXIIII Henrici VIII. Actis Made xi. f. xii^v Them that remisly or insufficiently shall here after meynteyne the same pauement.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xi. 80 It is not in our power not to do the same: how should it then be in our power to doe it coldly or remisly?

1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre ii. 102 Yet wee that liue remissely vndertake as great dangers as they.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 613 It is hardly to be believed, how negligently and remissly that Nation..took these Things.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 425 Lord Danby..could not give much credit to it, and handled the matter too remissly.

1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 423 Presenting the matter at first with a seeming eagerness, but proceeding afterwards more remisly.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 88 The months pass'd on, remissly,..in vague And loose indifference.

1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 50 At the same time they acted very remissly against their foreign kinsmen.

1877 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 6 435 The wares..were left at the village of Wykin, very remissly, until they were removed by Stoakes and delivered to Turvill.

1928 Chester (Pa.) Times 30 Mar. 28/2 These delicate scents..lose all traces of their original fragrance if they are handled remissly.

1996 Times (Nexis) 17 June Remissly, I have rarely watched The Knock (ITV), so I gave it a try.

1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull v. f. xliiii And to them that receiue the giftes..some persones hath them more intensly, more fullye, and more perfitly, & some more remysly, more faintlye, and not after so perfit facion or maner.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 112/2 In hot Diseases simply Cold things are no way expedient, but things remisly hot [L. in calidis tamen non simpliciter expediunt frigida, sed calida illorum remissiva].