adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a knowing manner; with knowledge; intelligently, consciously, intentionally, etc.: see prec.
1382. Wyclif, Wisd. xiii. 5. Of the mykilnesse of fairnesse, and of creature, knowendeli shal moun the creatour of these ben seen.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 103. He truly þat knawyngly & wilfully fallis in to þe lest [sin], vnauisyd to gretter oft-tymes sal fall.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 94 b. Wylfully & knowyngly … to chose … ye thynge that is of lesse goodnes.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., III. iii. 46. Did you but know the Citties Vsuries, And felt them knowingly.
1682. Burnet, Rights Princes, Pref. 8. I have not knowingly left anything unobserved.
a. 1708. Beveridge, Thes. Theol. (1710), II. 362. Then perform these duties,… knowingly.
1827. Scott, Two Drovers, ii. A good-looking, smart little man upon a pony, most knowingly hogged and cropped, as was then the fashion.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., vi. His eyes twinkled knowingly.
1875. Freeman, Hist. Ess., Ser. I. viii. 213. It is not likely that any such feeling was knowingly present to the mind of any man.
