advisedly
adv/ədˈvaɪ.zɪd.li/
Etymology From advised + -ly.
1
With intentionality, and deliberately, usually also with a connotation of due consideration and wise choosing.
- […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of othersa. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”
- The tongue is a sharp and parlous weapon, which we are bound to keep up in the sheath, or never to draw forth but advisedly, and upon just occasion; it must ever be wielded with caution and care: to brandish it wantonly, to lay about with it blindly and furiously, to slash and smite therewith any that happeth to come in our way, doth argue malice or madness.a. 1678, Isaac Barrow, “Sermon XVII. The Folly of Slander.”, in The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, D.D. […], volume I (Containing Twenty-four Sermons on Several Occasions), Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press, published 1830, →OCLC, paragraph 6, pages 502–503:
1 more example
- Of the remaining 580 channels, 2.5 channels had no fuel element in them and no orifice. We assumed advisedly that these transmitted twice as much air as an unorificed, unplugged channel loaded with a fuel cartridge.1951 July, Melville Clark, Jr., “Numerical Results and Conclusions”, in Axial Heat Distribution in Brookhaven Reactor (BNL-123), Upton, N.Y.: Brookhaven National Laboratory, →OCLC, page 17:
2
As prescribed by an authority, especially a dictionary
- By contrast, unelemental philosophy no longer has as its focal point humanity's relation to the world. Man (I use this term advisedly) becomes an analysing spectator of his existence, as opposed to a participant in it.2021, David Lorimer, A Quest for Wisdom:
- Now when I say the seal is vicious I use the term advisedly, according to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b1993, The Mountain Goats, “Beach House”:
- Antonyms
- ill-advisedly, inadvisedly
- Related terms
- advisedness, advisability, advisably, inadvisably