adv. [f. as prec.: see -LY2.] In a sociable manner; with sociability.

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1573.  G. Harvey, Lett.-bk. (Camden), 6. How sociablely he hath delt bi me.

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1605.  Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. vii. § 2. I 1 b. Beasts and birds … stood all sociably together.

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1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., II. xvii. 86. Certain living creatures, as Bees, and Ants, live sociably one with another.

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1755.  World (1772), III. 294. [They] spend their evenings very sociably together.

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1878.  Gladstone, Primer of Homer, 111. Wine was sociably enjoyed, but drunkenness was abhorred.

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