adv. [f. JESTING ppl. a. + -LY2.] In a jesting manner; by way of joke or merriment; in jest, not seriously.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 58. The king receyved him after a certayne maner … taunting him iestingly and merily.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, III. II. xli. Thus jestingly he flung out what was true.
1722. De Foe, Relig. Courtsh., I. ii. (1840), 38. He told me he kept a chaplain, and jestingly told me, he was devout enough for all the rest of the house.
1883. Froude, in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., II. 256. She had taken the harder parts of her lot lightly and jestingly.
