adv. [f. prec. adj. + -LY2.]
† 1. Evidently or manifestly to the sight; visibly, openly. Obs.
a. 1400. Chester Pl., I. 1. Pagentes set fourth apparently to all eyne.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 16. In this stone is apparantly seene verie often the verie forme of a Tode.
1651. Hobbes, Govt. & Soc., xvi. § 11. 273. The Prophets … who saw not God apparently like unto Moyses.
2. Evidently or manifestly to the understanding; clearly, plainly.
1553. J. Heywood, Play of Wether. Our dedes declare us apparauntly.
1644. Quarles, Boanerges & Barn. (1881), 93. When thou knowest not apparently, judge charitably.
1770. Junius Lett., Pref. 21. Cutting off ears and noses … penalties so apparently shocking to humanity.
1853. H. Rogers, Ecl. Faith, 138. The malady, which is but too apparent, is also as apparently without a remedy.
3. To external appearance; seemingly. (Distinguished from, though not necessarily opposed to, really.)
1566. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 49. The Bischoppis … hes had heirtofoir sick authoritie upoun thy subjectis, that appearandly thei war rather King, and thow the subject.
1646. Row, Hist. Kirk (1842), Introd. 25. I left him appirandlie in a better case then I fand him.
1794. S. Williams, Hist. Vermont, 126. They found many frogs apparently inactive.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sc., I. xxi. 493. A cannon-ball … would have its flight apparently arrested.
4. So far as it appears from the evidence; so far as one can judge; seemingly.
1846. J. Ryland, in Foster’s Life (1846), II. 107. It has been remarked, and apparently with truth.
1877. Lytteil, Landmarks, II. ii. 57. This early ecclesiastic has a church in Kintyre, and another apparently in Glen Sannocs, Arran.
