adv. [f. VERITABLE a. + -LY2.] In a veritable manner; with truth or verity; truly, truthfully; genuinely, really.
1481. Caxton, Godfrey, cxliii. 214. The nombre of them that were slayn was neuer verytably knowen.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., I. xxiii. 18. Kymarchus ye sone of Secilius, as some wryters haue, but more veritably as sayth ye olde Cronycle, the brother of Iago was made ruler of Brytayne.
c. 1532. Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 927. Veritably, veritablement.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 25 b. They esteeme many things by figure and fanticie, but few veritably and vprightly.
1804. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), VI. 143. All possible hazard may be precluded, by observing more veritably to the youthful reader, that [etc.].
1875. Poste, Gaius, II. (ed. 2), 237. Veritably afterborn, that is to say born after their father has made his will.