adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.]
† 1. Effectively, serviceably, advantageously. Obs.
1530–1. Act 22 Hen. VIII., xv. His said free pardon … shall be … taken … most beneficially and auailablye to all … his sayed subiectes.
1655. Gouge, Comm. Heb. xiii. 1. How to do any thing acceptably to God, or availably to his own salvation.
2. So as to be capable of being employed.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., x. 197. Such means as lie most availably at hand.
1879. G. Macdonald, P. Faber, II. vii. 114. The moment his property was his availably.
