1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. II. i. (1621), 249. And brutely so To all that com his naked shame doth showe.
1645. Milton, Tetrach. (1851), 229. The vulgar expositor rushes brutely and impetuously against all the principles of nature.
1857. Emerson, Poems, 109. Property will brutely draw Still to the proprietor.