adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. In a judicious manner; with sound or correct judgment; discreetly, wisely, prudently.
1601–2. Fulbecke, 1st Pt. Parall., Introd. 1. To excite … some other … farre more fully, iudiciously, and learnedly to accomplish this busines.
1688. Boyle, Final Causes Nat. Things, III. 91. Opium … is now imployed as a noble remedy, as indeed it is, if skilfully prepared and judiciously exhibited.
1756. Dr. Delany, in Life & Lett. Mrs. Delany (1861), III. 388. She read and wrote two languages correctly and judiciously.
1839. G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., II. 325. [There are] few examples of remote dependencies upon great empires being well or judiciously governed.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, vi. 56. Money judiciously distributed among the leading politicians had secured the Senate’s connivance.
† 2. By a legal or formal judgment; judicially.
a. 1634. Coke & Davies (title), England’s Independency upon the Papal Power, Historically and Judiciously stated.
1737. Whiston, Josephus, Antiq., III. xv. § 2. God … had judiciously condemned them to that punishment.
† b. With the air of a judge ‘laying down the law’; dogmatically. Obs.
1728. Morgan, Algiers, Pref. 7. How many [Englishmen] have I met with … most judiciously terming the best of them [Moors and Arabs] ‘savages.’
