Temerariously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  1.  With temerity; rashly.

1535.  Joye, Apol. Tindale (Arb.), 24. Thus temerariously and abominably to write.

1638.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (ed. 2), 310. They account them happiest, who out of a frantick zeale, temerariously throw their naked bodies in the way.

a. 1745.  Swift, Disc. Antiq. Eng. Tongue, ad fin. I have ventured (perhaps too temerariously) to contribute my mite to the learned world.

1863.  Lytton, Caxtoniana, I. 50. To be … corrected in any subsequent edition of the work in which such descriptions had been temerariously adventured.

  † 2.  At random; fortuitously. Obs.

1669.  Address to Hopeful Young Gentry England, 86. As temerariously and blindly they [Gamesters] cast round about them these fire-brands and fatal ponyards, as she seems to them wantonly to dispense her destinies.

1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 7. 198. The Atheists make the Universe … to be devoid of Counsel, and therefore … to be carried on Temerariously and Fortuitously.