adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. In a successful manner; with success.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., I. i. 194. I haue bene thy Souldier forty yeares, And led my Countries strength successefully.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 36. In order to move him the more successfully thereto, they procured the Pope to write a Letter himself to his Highness.
1709. Addison, Tatler, No. 24, ¶ 2. He is very successfully loud among the Wits.
1826. Lamb, Pop. Fallacies, v. A domestic … cut his throat, but not successfully.
1898. ‘H. S. Merriman,’ Roden’s Corner, i. 8. His … phlegmatic calm successfully concealed the fact.
† b. To look successfully: to seem likely to succeed. Obs. rare.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., I. ii. 165. He is too yong: yet he looks successefully.
† 2. Successively. Obs.
1651. Davenant, Gondibert, Pref. Brief hints such as, if all the arguments were successfully read, would make him easily remember the mutual dependencies of the general design.
