adv. [f. FREQUENT a. + -LY2.] In a frequent manner.
1. At frequent or short intervals, often, repeatedly.
1531. Elyot, The Boke Named the Gouernour, I. xxii. (1883), 245. In the excellent and most noble emperour Octauius Augustus, in whom reigned all nobilitie, nothinge is more commended than that he had frequently in his mouthe this worde Matura, do maturely.
1639. Massinger, Unnat. Combat, III. ii.
| These being heaven’s gifts, and frequently conferr’d | |
| On such as are beneath them. |
1766. Goldsm., Vic. W., xxi. He had been since frequently at my house, in order to comfort the rest of my family.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., xxvii. I frequently examined the colour of the snow.
† 2. Numerously, populously. Obs.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., IV. 279. For they being cut downe by Agrippa, the place became frequently inhabited on euery side.
1638. R. Baillie, Lett., iv. (1775), I. 34. The noblemen who came in frequently against the afternoon, stayed all that night, and for no request would remove.
