adv. Obs. [f. prec. + -LY2.] = AFFECTIONATELY.
1. With eager desire, earnestly.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, f iij b. Moche affectually I praye yow as my right dere daughters.
1495. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de Worde), II. 184 b/1. Some folke … prayed hym thre dayes duryng affectually that he wolde delyuer … the poore syke.
1509. Fisher, in Wks., 1876, 303. I pray you al nowe affectually to praye, and for her … to say one Pater-Noster.
2. Lovingly, fondly; affectionately (in mod. sense).
1447. Bokenham, Lyvys of Seyntys (1835), 53. I love my wyf as affectually … as any man dothe his.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arthur (1814), 91. Whan Arthur was within the tente wyth the ladyes, who affectually behelde him.
