adv. [f. as prec.]
† 1. a. With equivalence of value. Obs.–1
1629. Gaule, Holy Madn., 137. A great Patrimony may be valuably transubstantiated into the quantity of a little stone.
† b. At a high rate or value. Obs.
1755. Johnson, Preciously, valuably; to a great price.
2. With valuable or precious articles.
1780. Gentl. Mag., L. 617. Danford gained intelligence at an inn in the country of a box valuably filled.
1805. Naval Chron., XIII. 83. She is valuably laden.
3. In a valuable manner; so as to be valuable or highly useful.
1865. Sat. Rev., 5 Aug., 177/2. Mr. Palgrave’s sombre picture must be treated as … valuably qualifying, not as superseding, such standard representations as that by Layard.
1895. Review of Rev., Aug., 167. If he had lived only to write that, he would have lived valuably.
1896. Pop. Sci. Monthly, L. 285. Which perplex and exhaust the pupil without contributing valuably to his mental discipline.
