adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a charitable or kindly manner; with charity.
c. 1400. Wycliffite Tract, in Wyclif’s Bible, Pref. 14, note. Men … that ȝyuen charitably the greet almes of Goddis word, declaryng it ryȝtly to cristene puple.
1494. Fabyan, V. cxxxii. 116. He exortyd his .ii. sones charitably to loue.
1526. Tindale, Rom. xiv. 15. If thy brother be grieued with thy meate: now walkest thou not charitablye.
1563. Abp. Parker, Articles. And releaue the poore charitably.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, II. i. 28. Let him first charitablie reprehend them.
1691. Hartcliffe, Virtues, 213. We then learn to think soberly, and to judg charitably.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 195, ¶ 2. I was always charitably inclined to believe the Fault lay in myself.
1766. Goldsm., Vic. W., xxiii. A supply of provisions charitably sent us by my kind parishioners.
1880. M. Collins, Th. in Garden, II. 270. There are such delightfully illogical people wandering about: I charitably hope that my amiable critic is not one of them.
