wholesomelyadv.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 107 Þeo giue he giueð mid þe holi husel, þanne man it understondeð rihtliche and holsumliche.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1731 Whyle þe hende knyȝt at home holsumly slepe[z] With-inne þe comly cortynes.

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 9 (MED) He shulde..considre the manyfolde snarys of oure sotell ennemy prudently And aware them holsumly [L. salubriter] leyste that..wrecchidly he shulde perysche.

?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 393 (MED) Þer is made a statute..þe whiche oure bischopis and oure predecessouris biholdynge religiously & purveynge hoolsumly.

1529 S. Fish tr. H. Bomelius Summe Holye Script. xxiv. sig. N.ij The good will of God, whyche shall defende theym and rule all thynges for the best, and more holsomely and ryghtuously then all the iudges of the worlde.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. vi. f. xiiii This bodye of synne is then in vs effectually and holsomely slaine.

1622 A. Court Constancie ii. 109 Afflictions..happen to vs wholsomely.

1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. (1654) i. 47 What was wholsomly advised..that he willingly assented to.

1718 Hist. Reg. 1717 121 The said Bishop..ordain'd him [sc. Laurence Howel] according to the Manner and Custom of the Church of England, in this Behalf wholesomely appointed and provided.

1797 Burn's Eccl. Law (ed. 6) I. 250 (note) He was a good man, and wholesomely governed the church committed to him.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 11 It wholesomely instils the advantages of frugality.

1879 M. Arnold Democracy in Mixed Ess. 24 That which operates noxiously in the one, may operate wholesomely in the other.

1908 L. A. Tollemache Old & Odd Mem. 130 So wholesomely snubbable as just to stop short of being bores.

1953 Changing Times May 32/1 When he came to Washington..he was wholesomely innocent of building methods.

2003 B. Wagner Still Holding iii. 196 The united front was impossibly, utterly, wholesomely Capraesque, almost as much of a story as its subject.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxviii. 1171 Auctours comaundeþ to take suche whelpes holsomliche aȝeins venymous bytynges of houndes.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 188 If þe þing þat is smyten may nouȝt be drawen oute holsomly in þe firste course, it schal be latten stille vnto þe flesche bygynne to wyddre.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 50 (MED) It is science to knowe..what metis and drynkis wolen nurische vs holsomli.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. v. sig. B^v The meate good and holsome, and holsomly drest.

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xxiv. f. 47^v This Citty..standeth holsomly and sweetly, as it were vpon a hill.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. ix. x. 331 Those things, which doe wholesomly and moderately nourish.

1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Gii That their Linnen be wholsomly and cleanly washed.

1723 H. Wilson Speculum Mundi iv. 19 From Dry and wholesomely hot,..it [sc. the air] became Damp.

1759 W. Harte Hist. Life Gustavus Adolphus I. 5 He was taught to feed wholesomely, but not luxuriously.

1859 All Year Round 3 Dec. 127/1 Paraguay tea..adulterates the real souchong wholesomely.

1870 Echo 15 Nov. A sufficiency of wholesome, and..wholesomely cooked food.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point i. 20 Perhaps we're brought up too wholesomely and aseptically, he thought.

2011 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 17 Jan. c9 We thought the start of the new year should be one of our wholesomely delicious breads.