adv. [f. as prec. + -LY.]
1. Universally, with universal application. ? Obs.
1631. Sir L. Cary, Elegy on Donne (T.). No druggist of the soul bestow’d on all So catholicly a curing cordial.
1645. Milton, Tetrach. (1851), 170. That Mariage is indissoluble, is not Catholickly true; wee know it dissoluble for Adultery and for desertion.
2. In accordance with the faith or teaching of the Catholic Church.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xl. (1870), 302. That the sycke person may fynysshe his lyfe Catholyckely in the fayth of Iesu Cryste.
1583. W. Fulke, Defence, 63. The late new English Testament catholicly translated and printed at Rheims.
1679. Everard, Popish Plot, 1. I was one of her privatest Friends, and Catholickly affected.
1853. Cdl. Wiseman, Ess., II. 377. We own we do not see it, if viewed Catholicly.
b. so Roman Catholicly.
1793. H. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann (1834), I. lxviii. 250. You are either run Roman Catholicly devout or take me to be so.
