adv. rare. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
† 1. With patient endurance. Obs.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 300 b/2. They … knelynge on their knees receyued Suffrably wyth a Joyous herte the Swerdes of them that martryd them.
† 2. To the accompaniment of suffering. Obs.
1548. Geste, Agst. Priv. Masse, F v b. Els he shuld not haue bene eaten whole & vnbroken vnsufferably but by pecemele and sufferably as the lambe was.
3. So as to be tolerable, tolerably. arch.
1702. Addison, Dial. Medals, ii. 92. An infant Titan held she in her arms Yet sufferably bright, the eye might bear The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.
1875. P. Bayne, in Contemp. Rev., XXVII. 68. They but suffice to prove that he [Whitman] can write sanely and sufferably when he pleases.
