probablely

comparative more probablely · superlative most probablely

1. obsoleteObsolete form of probably.

   Sum pretending to claime annual-rents & few dewties of landes, fallen in fore-faltour of many zeires preceeding: Quhilkis probablely ar taken away be poſteriour richtes or diſcharges, conſiled or abstracted be the ſaid perſones fore-falted.

   1682, The Laws and Acts of Parliament Made by King James the First, and His Royal Successors, Kings and Queen of Scotland, Edinburgh: Iosua van Solingen, Iohn Colmar, page 498

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   If then it ſhall appeare that the daily bread allowed by the Ancients to their ſervants & ſouldiers, was no more then is by vs allowed at this day to ours, it will, as I take it, from thence be more then probablely inferred, that the common ſtature & ſtrength of our bodies, is not ſomuch inferiour to theirs, as is commonly ſuppoſed.

   1627, George Hakewill, An Apologie of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World: Or, an Examination and Censure of the Common Errour Touching Natures Perpetuall and Vniversall Decay: Lib. III, Oxford: Iohn Lichfield, page 184

   Wherefore Columbus hath found out a new way, which is, that the blood is carryed to the lungs by the vena arterioſa, and there attenuated; and carried from thence together with the air by the Arteria venoſa to the left ventricle of the heart; this he writes truly very probablely.

   1649, Thomas Johnson, transl., The Workes of That Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, London: Richard Cotes and William Du-gard, translation of original by Ambroise Paré, page 115