Usually

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  1.  In a usual or wonted manner; according to customary, established, or frequent usage; commonly, customarily, ordinarily; as a rule.

  In frequent use from c. 1600.

1477.  Rolls of Parlt., VI. 191/2. All the Membres usuelly called to the forseid Parlementes.

1485.  Yorks. Archaeol. Soc., Record Ser., XLI. 1. [He] awaytid vpon hym thyder according as he vsually dyde.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 17. The moost vyle meet that is vsually ordeyned for beestes.

1587.  Southampton Crt. Leet Rec. (1906), II. 262. Emery lake doth vsually delyver his key of the lynnen hawle to straungers at all dayes.

1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 331 b. Through their excellencie in horsemanship they vsually made the victorie … to be certaine.

1634.  W. Tirwhyt, trans. Balzac’s Lett. (vol. I.), 203. If thy letters be so short, as usually they are.

1682.  Norris, Hierocles, 10. The Keeper of this observation was usually call’d … by the mystical Name Oath.

1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 17, ¶ 2. The Ornaments which are usually given to the Actions of the Great.

1766.  Goldsm., Vicar, xii. One of those observations I usually made to impress my wife.

1825.  Scott, Betrothed, xv. The blessings which are usually bestowed on a departing kinswoman.

1840.  Penny Cycl., XVII. 174/1. Palms are woody plants, usually trees, with simple stems.

1878.  Jevons, Prim. Pol. Econ., 16. Even a successful strike usually occasions loss.

  b.  In the phr. than usually (now only as in quot. 1875), † as usually. Cf. USUAL a. 4 d.

a. 1700.  Evelyn, Diary, 18 Jan. 1645. A very large payr of stayres, round, without any stepps as usualy.

1713.  Derham, Phys. Theol., I. iii. 22. The Summer of 1708, part of which … was much colder than usually.

1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, XV. iii. The Company behaved as usually on these Occasions.

1805.  Med. Jrnl., XIII. 107. It absorbs this substance more eagerly from the surface of the body than usually.

1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 38. The mind of man has been more than usually active in thinking about man.

  † 2.  In a regular manner; regularly. Obs. rare.

1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 17. To walke thy pastures vsuallie To spie ill neighbours subtiltie.

1605.  Camden, Rem., 233. He would not have so weighty a matter tumultuously and rashly done, but vsually and orderly.