Meanings
adverbfuturely (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteIn time to come.
But this Preſcience of God (as it is Preſcience only) is not the cauſe of any thing futurely ſuccecding : neither doth Gods fore-knowledge impoſe any neceſſity, or binde.
1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter I, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §. XII Of Preſcience, page 17
Origin
From future (adjective) + -ly.
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