Broadly

adv. [f. BROAD a. + -LY².]

  1.  In a broad manner; widely, extensively.

1599.  Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 124. When the world … should looke about so broadly, and search so narrowly.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 126. The Colt … Barrel belly’d, broadly back’d.

1873.  Morley, Rousseau, I. 309. Two channels, flowing broadly apart.

1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner. & Ferns, 162. A broadly elliptical cavity.

  2.  fig. With a broad or general view; generally.

1856.  Sir B. Brodie, Psychol. Inq., I. iii. 91. He has laid down the rule too broadly.

1860.  Tyndall, Glac., II. § 22. 346. Broadly considered, two classes of facts are presented.

  3.  Outspokenly, openly; manifestly, markedly, decidedly; fully.

1624.  Bedell, Lett., iv. 81. [It] made them talke and write of it broadly.

1651.  Baxter, Inf. Bapt., Apol. 16. Mr. T.’s greatest friends, did the broadlyest speak … of his being foiled.

1753.  Scots Mag., Jan., 2/2. The janisaries … pretty broadly hinted their inclination.

1871.  Blackie, Four Phases, I. 154. Looking the man broadly in the face.

1876.  Green, Short Hist., v. § 3 (1882), 233. Wyclif broadly asserted that no man could be excommunicated by the Pope.

  4.  With broad pronunciation. See BROAD a. 7.

1580.  Baret, Alv., B 1341. To speake more brodely: to ioine wordes so … that vowels meete together gapingly.

  5.  Art. With artistic breadth. See BREADTH 5.

1875.  Fortnum, Maiolica, xii. 132–3. Broadly treated grotesques … in camaïeu of greenish grey on a blue ground.