adv. [f. EXPERT a.1 + -LY2.] In an expert manner. † a. As one who has had experience; by actual experiment. † b. As one who has been proved or tried. c. Skilfully.
a. c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., VII. 110. Unbynde it thenne, and there expertly se How oon tree is in til an other ronne.
b. 1548. Vicary, Anat. (1888), 11. Not for them that be expertly seene in the Anatomie.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 114. What good end else can there be of their own counselling and warning, that an Astrologer be a man both expertly Ethicall, and Physicall?
c. 1798. Edgeworth, Pract. Educ., I. 359. Children may answer expertly to the questions, ‘What is attention? What is memory? What is imagination?’
