adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a cautious manner, with caution; warily, heedfully, carefully, circumspectly.

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1664.  Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 196. Uncover also Artichoaks cautiously, and by degrees.

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1699.  Bentley, Phal., 131. He cautiously says, that he often uses the Excerpta.

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1781.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., II. 137. He cautiously suppressed his grief and resentment.

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1876.  Green, Short Hist., viii. § 3 (1882), 488. Cautiously and tentatively they were introducing Roman doctrine.

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1877.  Lady Brassey, Voy. in ‘Sunbeam,’ xiv. (1878), 243. Opening the curtains cautiously.

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