payably
advEtymology From payable + -ly.
1
Of a mine etc.: so as to yield profit; profitably.
- In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126: