adv. Also 6 sircum-. [f. CIRCUMSPECT a. + -LY2.] In a circumspect manner, with circumspection; cautiously, warily, carefully.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 337. Thei scholde haue writen more circumspectely, if they hade seide, [etc.].
1553. Primer, in Liturgies Edw. VI. (1844), 465. Circumspectly and warily to look unto my household.
1611. Bible, Eph. v. 15. See then that yee walke circumspectly, not as fooles, but as wise.
1741–2. H. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann (1834), I. xxi. 88. We must write circumspectly, for our letters now are no longer safe.
1888. M. Morris, Claverhouse, vi. 99. To us … who manage these matters so much more circumspectly.
