adv. [f. ARTICULATE a. + -LY2.] In an articulate manner.
1. By joints.
1728. Earbery, trans. Burnet’s State of Dead, I. 193. [Our Body] is formed of several parts of Matter articulately jointed and coagmented together.
2. With articulate voice, with words and syllables distinctly heard.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. v. (R.). Englishe … cleane, polite, perfectly and articulately pronounced.
1637. Gillespie, Eng.-Pop. Cerem., III. ii. 16. To speake audibly and articulatly.
1656. trans. Hobbes’s Elem. Philos. (1839), 494. The voice from the pulpit will not be heard so articulately as it would be, if there were no vaulting.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, v. Sir Bingo … swore louder and more articulately than ever he was known to utter any previous sounds.
3. Distinctly, definitely, in sense or manner.
1660. Jer. Taylor, Duct. Dubit., II. iii. § 20. Christians that … do all of them explicitly and articulately long after the glories of an eternal love.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. XIV. v. 217. It is the first time her Hungarian Majesty steps articulately forward with such extraordinary Claim of Damages.
4. In the form of distinct articles, article by article, specifically.
1620. Bp. Snowden, in Fortesc. Papers, 124. A more full declaracion of the matter is articulately expressed in the note.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. 116. I had articulatly set down in writing our points.
1794. Paley, Evid., II. vi. (1817), 127. A detail of examples, distinctly and articulately proposed.
1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), III. lv. 111. He then goes over the different charges articulately.
