adv. [f. LIVELY a. + -LY2.] In a lively manner (see the senses of LIVELY a.). Briskly, vigorously; keenly; vividly, impressively.
1558. Knox, Baptism, Sel. Writ. (1845), 253. The promises of Salvation in Christ Jesus are not in the papistical baptism livelily and truly explained to the people.
1634–5. Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), 57. Pictures made in wax most livelyly of the Infanta.
1646. H. Lawrence, Comm. Angells, 59. Let them walke livelily and cheerefully.
1697. trans. C’tess. D’Aunoy’s Trav. (1706), 28. Least he should … appear livelily toucht with the Reproach she made him.
1709. S. Sewall, Diary, 13 July (1879), II. 258. I found the Deal-Box of Wafers all afire, burning livelily.
1751. Eliza Heywood, Betsy Thoughtless, III. 132. Those distractions, which her letters to him had so livelily represented.
1825. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Superann. Man. Livelily expressing the hollowness of a day’s pleasuring.
a. 1834. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 116. Truths, which it seems almost impossible that any mind should so distinctly, so livelily, and so voluntarily, have presented to itself.
1845. E. Warburton, Crescent & Cross, I. 12. [They] bound over the depths of ocean as livelily as if they were all tritons and sea-nymphs.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1944. 132/1. A fourth, who is livelily talking.
