adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an appreciative manner: with estimation of comparative value; discriminatingly; with sympathetic recognition of excellence.
1656. Hobbes, Liberty, etc. (1841), 315. Yet appreciatively in the estimation of judgment, he accounts the offence of God a greater evil than any temporal loss.
1656. Jeanes, Mixt. Schol. Div., 13. Appretiatively, preferring him, and his will, before all other things.
1879. T. H. S. Escott, England, I. 166. There are many good picture collections in Birmingham, but they have been slowly, lovingly, and appreciatively acquired, not purchased ready-made as in Liverpool or Manchester.
