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agreeably, adv.|əˈgriːəblɪ|
In 4 agreablely.
[f. agreeable + -ly2.]
In an agreeable manner.
1. In a way which pleases, or suits the inclination; pleasantly.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. 43 With hem þat euery fortune receyuen agreablely or egally. 1597–8Bacon Ess. (Arb.) 20/1 To speake agreeably to him with whome we deale. 1740–61Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III. 300, I spent an hour and a half very agreeably. 1842Macaulay Lays (1864) Pref. 25 He..tells very agreeably the stories of Elfleda and Elfrida.
2. In a manner suiting, corresponding, or answering to; in conformity or accordance with.
1461Paston Lett. 407 II. 34 A signement sufficient to hem aggreabili for the seid payment. 1611Bible 1 Esdr. viii. 12 Agreeably to that which is in the Law of the Lord. a1745Swift Wks. II. 28 Men should act agreeably to the motive of that respect. 1769Robertson Chas. V, III. x. 252 Agreeably to the manifesto which he had published. 1837J. H. Newman Proph. Off. Church 108 Agreeably with this anticipation, the Church of Rome..is led to profess to know not only infallibly but completely.
†b. without to: (a) In a way that corresponds to something else; correspondingly, conformably. (b) In ways that correspond to each other, in the same way, uniformly, similarly. Obs.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apocal. (1573) 91/b, The Scripture euery where agreeably witnesseth, that the Saintes in heauen are free from grefes. 1563Homilies ii. (1859) 421 And St. Peter most agreeably writing in this behalf saith. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. vii. 3 Two Knights..The which were armed both agreeably. 1659Hammond On Ps. 2 And agreeably the fiftieth Psalm inscribed to Asaph. 1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. II. xxii. §28 Another experiment proved the same no less agreeably.
†c. In a way that answers to circumstances or the nature of things; suitably, fittingly. Obs.
1754Richardson Grandison II. xxix. 269, I was shy of forcing an opportunity, as none agreeably offered. |
