adv. Obs. [f. prec. + -LY.] Usefully, profitably, duly; necessarily.
1443. Hen. VI., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., III. 34, I. 80. Vndir the whiche the seid pees shall mowe behouefully be treted to a good conclusion.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 47. [They] techen ful clereli and bihouefulli the treuthis.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., III. (1617), 112. Most behoouefully spoken.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 630. It must behouefully be now remembred.
