adv. [OE. carful-líce: see prec. and -LY2.] In a careful manner; with care: in various senses of the adj.; now chiefly, Heedfully, attentively, circumspectly, cautiously.
a. 1000. in Thorpe, Laws, II. 360. Se sacerd sceal don carfullice Godes þenunga.
a. 1300. Cursor M., p. 989. 333. Ful carfully me-think be þis way ȝe walk.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XXIII. 201. For drede gan ich quaken, And criede carfully.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utop. (Arb.), 147. Whome they see depart from his life carefullie and agaynst his will.
1559. Morwyng, Evonym., 7. I began carefully to muse.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., II. ii. 8. Let it be your charge … To attend the Emperours person carefully.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. 110 (J.). Envy, how carefully does it look? How meager and ill-complexioned?
1710–1. Swift, Lett. (1766–8), III. 95. I walkt plaguy carefully, for fear of sliding.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), I. v. 429. The parliament, in asserting the freedom of England, carefully chose their language.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 160. We must examine carefully the character of his proposals.
