adv. rare. [f. SURFACE sb. 7 b + -LY2.] ‘On the surface’; superficially.
1885. L. Oliphant, Sympneumata, 106. The change from the trueness of man’s dual nature, to the falseness of a nature surfacely admixed with base ingredients.
1893. J. Pulsford, Loyalty to Christ, II. 420. Ordinary friends may know you surfacely.
