adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a congruent manner; congruously.

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a. 1528.  Skelton, Philip Sparowe (R.). Right conueniently And full congruentlye.

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1601.  Deacon & Walker, Spirits & Divels, 36. You cannot congruently conclude from thence any essentiall inherencie.

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1651.  Raleigh’s Ghost, 122. Operations … most congruently and orderly directed to their designed ends.

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a. 1718.  Penn, Treat Oaths, Wks. 1782, II. 472. Which things Philo … pursues to the same scale, very congruently in the gospel.

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