adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a comprehending or intelligent manner; with understanding. † Also, so as to be understood.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, xlviii. 12. For he wroght not vndirstandan[d]ly he is likynd … til vnwise bestis in vnwisdome.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 101. Besily and vnderstandandly y amonest þe, and gyues þe good conseill.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Entendiblement, vnderstandingly, learnedly.
1602. Fulbecke, Pandects, 55. It is more plainlie and understandinglie opened by hime in these wordes.
1649. F. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 46. Still fix your thought upon the Occasion and Scope of every Book, when you would peruse them understandingly.
1697. Humfrey, Righteousn. God, I. 6. This Learned Man hath … understandingly exprest the very thing as it is.
1754. Edwards, Freedom Will, IV. viii. 248. A Work of his almighty Power,… upheld understandingly, and on Design, as much as if no other had been made but that.
1833. New Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 154. His was one of those clear eyes which see beauty understandingly.
1850. Fraser’s Mag., XLI. 524. The young people began to look very understandingly at each other.
1890. Mary E. Wilkins, Far-away Melody, 16. They had studied the Bible faithfully, if not understandingly.
