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ˈpopularly, adv.
[f. popular + -ly2.]
In a popular manner.
1. By or among the people at large, esp. the common people; generally, prevalently, commonly, ordinarily; by popular vote as opposed to nomination or election by one or a few.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 55 Not meete to be so popularly praysed. 1594T. Bedingfield tr. Machiavelli's Florentine Hist. (1595) 205 Hee feared many times to haue bene populerly slaine. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 185 A Dysentery slaying popularly and killing many. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 424 He had a son, who was popularly called the Boy of Egremont. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 291 The whole number..was popularly estimated at a hundred and thirty thousand men. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. ix. 730 A Town Council popularly elected.
2. In the ordinary language or style of the people; so as to be generally intelligible.
1581E. Campion in Confer. iii. (1584) R iij b, Saint Augustine there speaketh popularly. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. (Arb.) 77 They had not written so much nor so popularly. 1621Cade Serm. 19 The nature of conscience, which I will describe as popularly as I can. 1680Baxter Cath. Commun. (1684) 20 You will say that the Scripture speaketh popularly, and after the manner of Men. 1861Goschen For. Exch. 138 The difficulty lies not in the apprehension of them, when they are plainly and popularly stated.
†3. In a way that wins popular favour. Obs.
1593[see popularize v. 1]. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 336 Why then should I..Turn rebel and run popularly mad? Ibid. 689 On each Side bowing popularly low. 1739‘R. Bull’ tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 223 To twirl the Ringlets, which in Order grow, On each Side waving popularly low. |
