adv. [f. BRUTE a. + -LY2.] a. Roughly, rudely; coarsely. b. Irrationally; mechanically.

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. II. i. (1621), 249. And brutely so To all that com his naked shame doth showe.

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1645.  Milton, Tetrach. (1851), 229. The vulgar expositor … rushes brutely and impetuously against all the principles … of nature.

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1857.  Emerson, Poems, 109. Property will brutely draw Still to the proprietor.

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