adv. [f. VARIABLE a. + -LY2.] In a variable, inconstant, or uncertain manner; changeably; with variation.

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1590.  H. Barrow, Brief Discoverie, 4. Amongst those 4 he stil contended to set vp one chief, which variably fell out, sometimes to one, sometimes to another.

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1598.  Florio, Variamente, changeablie,… diuerslie, variablie.

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1648.  Hexham, II. Veranderlicken, Changeably, or Variably.

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1731.  Bailey (ed. 5), Variably, changeably, uncertainly.

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1772.  C. Hutton, Bridges, iv. The variably increased velocity.

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1824.  Byron, Juan, XVI. cxxi. The blue eyes glared, And rather variably for stony death.

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1852.  H. Rogers, Eclipse Faith, 372. That Nature was, within certain limits, only variably uniform.

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1890.  Science-Gossip, XXVI. 275/1. The … variably-coloured Helices.

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