diversly

comparative more diversly · superlative most diversly

1. archaicArchaic form of diversely (“severally, variously”).

   [T]h’vn-full Harmony / Of vn-even Hammers, beating diverſly, / VVakens the tunes that his [Tubal-cain’s] ſvveet numbery ſoule / Yer birth (ſom think) learn’d of the vvarbling Pole.

   1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second Weeke, […]. Adam. […].] The Handi-crafts. The IIII. Part of the I. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 290

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   Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]

   1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068