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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Ordinarily, -lie, adv. [e.m.E. (1532).] = Ordinarly adv. — 1602 Melvill 549.
That the Generall Assemblies … ar nocht ordinarilie keipit … but that the dyatis thairof ar altered without the knawledge of the Presbyteries and Synodis 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1891) 274.
As ordinarily melted gold casteth forth a drossy scum 1654 Cramond Ch. Aberdour 25.
The minister … desires they would take more notice of common swearing … delating more ordinarily for it than they do a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 221, 356. 1669 Murray Early B. Organ. II. 517.
A fierce young man who ordinarily had a minȝie attending him 1681 Stair Inst. i. xvii, § 15.
Legal execution is not competent ordinarily till delay 1691 Dickinson Two Students at St. A. xl.
Which are not ordinarily counterfeited