adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. With studied attention or care; carefully, solicitously, diligently.
a. 1349. Hampole’s Wks. (1895), I. 103. Graunte me, swete ladi, to haue & to holde þis passioun in mynde as hertili & as studiousli in al my lijf, as þou.
1408. trans. Vegetius’ Art War (MS. Digby 233), 203 b/1. Thei that moost studiousliche haue ylerned of dedees of armes þei sei þat many mo perils fallen.
c. 1425. St. Mary of Oignies, I. xi. in Anglia, VIII. 147. Hir cloþes were in a mene, for desyred filthes & studiously soghte clennesse plesyd hir neuere.
c. 1450. Myrr. our Ladye, 21. All … ar bydden … to say or singe the seruyce of these vii houres studyously and deuoutly.
1561. T. Norton, trans. Calvin’s Inst., I. ix. 20 b. We ought right studiously to apply the redyng & hearyng of the scripture.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., III. i. 2. Com’st thou with deepe premeditated Lines? With written Pamphlets, studiously deuis’d?
1639. N. N., trans. Du Bosq’s Compl. Woman, II. 59. These Harlots sometimes seek more studiously the outward shewes of vertue.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, VII. 249. Sabinus,… On a short Pruning-hook his Head reclines: And studiously surveys his gen’rous Wines.
1826. Art of Brewing (ed. 2), 99. Be at all times studiously attentive to flavour and complexion.
1839. De Quincey, Recoll. Lakes, Wks. 1862, II. 175. From growing interest in the author, every copy of the small impression had been studiously bought up.
b. With careful design or intent; deliberately.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Hydriot., v. 29. While some have studied Monuments, others have studiously declined them.
1694. S. Johnson, Notes on Pastoral Let., I. 90. Men have studiously forgot it, and discharged their Memory of it.
1741. Middleton, Cicero, II. x. 410. How studiously he had avoided every step.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xix. (1787), II. 134. The troops, whose station lay along the public road, were studiously removed on his approach.
1838. W. C. Harris, Narr. Exped. S. Africa, 19. He … studiously absented himself from the house.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., vi. (1858), II. 5. The language of this act was studiously guarded.
1884. Manch. Exam., 16 May, 4/7. If he had studiously endeavoured to be unjust he could not have succeeded more completely.
1886. G. Allen, Darwin, i. 8. Buffon was careful to put his conjectural conclusions in a studiously guarded … form.
c. qualifying an adj.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., v. (1858), I. 400. To the English agents he had been studiously cold.
1862. Whyte-Melville, Queen’s Maries, II. 202. Maxwell by a studiously quiet … demeanour, contrived to throw his gaoler completely off his guard.
1898. Earl Selborne, Mem., I. II. xi. 229. Its tone was studiously respectful towards the United States; no pains were spared to avoid the use of any language which could wound [etc.].
2. With careful attention to learning or books; as a student.
a. 1626. Bacon, Elem. Com. Laws (1630), (title-p.), Explicated for the more facile Introduction of such as are studiously addicted to that noble Profession.
1650. in 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., 455/2. Wee … doe certify that John Petty … hath piously, soberly, and studiously demeaned himself in the same Colledge.
