adv. Obs. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a complacential manner; with pleasurable satisfaction or content.
1671. Baxter, Holiness, Design Chr., iv. 16. To love complacencially an ungodly person as if he were godly. Ibid. (1675), Cath. Theol., iii. 205. God might be said to love him … Complacencially, according to the good that was in him; And benevolently as he purposed his future Sanctification and Salvation. Ibid. (1681), Apol. Nonconf. Min., 63. We cannot love them complacentially.
