Warily

adv. [f. WARY a. + -LY².] In a wary manner, cautiously, † watchfully.

1552.  Huloet, Warilye, solerter, uigilanter.

1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., III. vii. 61. They that … ride not warily, fall into foule Boggs.

1605.  B. Jonson, Volpone, I. v. Shee’s kept as warily, as is your gold: Neuer do’s come abroad, neuer takes ayre, But at a windore.

1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. viii. 33. More warily are we to receive the relations of Philes, who in Greeke Iambicks delivered the proprieties of Animals.

1658.  Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 914. It [sc. honey] is a heavenly gift, and very profitable for men, if they use it well and warily.

1747.  Wesley, Prim. Physick (1762), 37. Take ripe Puff balls. Break them warily.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. II. 163. Surrounded by snares in which an ordinary youth would have perished, William learned to tread at once warily and firmly.

1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 396. Their adversaries defend themselves warily from an invisible world.