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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
advisedly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the moment that gallery is engaged - I use the word advisedly - in purchasing an important Cuyp landscape.
▪ Of course such behaviour won't wash, and I use the word advisedly, if the neighbour happens to be a colleague.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Advisedly

Advisedly \Ad*vis"ed*ly\, adv.

  1. Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  2. With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. ``Advisedly undertaken.''
    --Suckling.

Wiktionary
advisedly

adv. With intentionality; deliberately.

WordNet
advisedly

adv. with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that word intentionally"; "I did this by choice" [syn: intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely, by choice, by design] [ant: by chance, unintentionally, unintentionally]

Usage examples of "advisedly".

I say soul advisedly, for after all the body and the senses had nothing to do with the connection.

And yet I am very much of the opinion, my dears, that he has not chosen his profession advisedly.

This ill presage advisedly she marketh:Even as the wind is hush'd before it raineth,Or as the wolf doth grin before he barketh,Or as the berry breaks before it staineth,Or like the deadly bullet of a gun,His meaning struck her ere his words begun.

When needed, he could blaze, and those scorched drew back advisedly, but his fire was always in control.