adv. [f. prec. + -LY1.] In a wholesome manner.
1. In a way conducive to well-being in general; with good tendency or effect; beneficially, salutarily.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 107. Þe giue of eche lif … he giueð mid þe holi husel, þanne man it understondeð rihtliche and holsumliche.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Rom. vi. 1–7. 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, Eccl. Hist., I. (1654), 47. What was wholsomly advised … that he willingly assented to.
1797. Burn’s Eccl. Law (ed. 6), I. 250, note. He was a good man, and wholesomely governed the church committed to him.
1879. M. Arnold, Mixed Ess., Democr., 24. That which operates noxiously in the one, may operate wholesomely in the other.
2. So as to promote health; in a way favorable to health; † remedially, medicinally (obs.); healthily (rare).
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xxviii. (Bodl. MS.). Auctours comaundeþ to take such whelpes holsomliche aȝens venemous bitinge of houndes.
1546. J. Heywood, Prov. (1867), 9. The meate good and holsome and holsomly drest.
1557. Order of Hospitalls, G ij. That their Linnen be wholsomly and cleanly washed.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., I. 47 b. This Citty … standeth holsomly and sweetly, as it were vpon a hill.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., IX. x. (1678), 222. Those things which do wholsomly and moderately nourish.
1859. All Year Round, No. 32. 127. Paraguay tea … adulterates the real souchong wholesomely.
1870. Echo, 15 Nov. A sufficiency of wholesome, and … wholesomely cooked food.
