adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an upward direction; upwards.
1816. L. Hunt, Rimini, IV. 387. There lay she praying, upwardly intent.
1835. Browning, Paracelsus, V. 883. All tend upwardly though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Brown Rosary, III. xxxi. She glanced upwardly mute.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2706/1. The pistons were fitted with upwardly opening valves.