adv. Sc. Obs. [f. VOLUNTAR a. + -LY2.] Voluntarily.
c. 1568. Regent Murray, in H. Campbell, Love-lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824), App. 21. Sho … constituted me … Regent to his Grace;… and that voluntarlie.
1580. Reg. Privy Council Scot., III. 325. Frelie, voluntarlie, and with thair awin gudewill.
1637–50. Row, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), p. xliv. The saids ministers doe voluntarly expon … ane portion of Scriptur.
1639. Drumm. of Hawth., Conv. w. B. Jonson, Wks. (1711), 224. He [Ben Jonson] … voluntarly imprisoned himself with Chapman and Marston.
