adv. [f. CORRECT a. + -LY2.] In a correct manner; in accordance with what is considered right; exactly, accurately, without error: see the adj.
1692–9. Locke, Educ., Wks. 1722, III. 76 (J.). Speak as properly and as correctly … as [etc.].
1709. Pope, Ess. Crit., II. 240. Such Lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold and regularly low.
1751. Berkeley, Lett., Wks. IV. 330. The care you have taken in publishing the inscription so correctly.
1797. Burke, Regic. Peace, III. Wks. VIII. 381. If I am correctly informed.
1888. M. Morris, Claverhouse, i. 6. He could not spell correctly.
