adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension.
† 1. By laying hold. Obs.
1656. Trapp, Exp. Rom. iii. 29. Men are said to be justified apprehensively by faith.
2. With anticipation, esp. of danger; with fear as to what may be coming.
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1810), VI. xxxii. 236. What think you made me write so apprehensively?
1828. Southey, To A. Cunningham, Wks. III. 315. The face Composed and apprehensively intent Upon the necessary operation About to be performd.
† 3. So as to be apprehended, intelligibly. Obs.
1692. Dryden, St. Euremonts Ess., 14. The Quality considered in itself, to speak apprehensively, was very savage.