adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a comparable manner.

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1612–5.  Bp. Hall, Contempl. O. T., IV. iii. None in all Egypt or Midian was comparably fit for this embassage.

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a. 1716.  South, Serm., V. 420. There is no nation … which despise their clergy or priesthood comparably to the English.

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1726.  trans. Gregory’s Astron., I. 176. The Area … doth not comparably differ from the Sector of a Circle.

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