learnèdly

learnèdly (comparative more learnèdly, superlative most learnèdly)

1. Alternative spelling of learnedly
   • 1854, Lord Byron, “Don Juan”, in The Illustrated Byron, London: Henry Vizetelly, part VIII, canto X, stanza XL, page 293:

     Low were the whispers, manifold the rumours: / Some said he had been poison’d by Potemkin; / Others talk’d learnèdly of certain tumours, / Exhaustion, or disorders of the same kin;

   • 1869, John Ford, “Fame’s Memorial”, in The Works of John Ford, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, volume III, London: James Toovey, page 287:

     Great Mountjoy! were that name sincerely scann’d, / Mysterious hieroglyphics would explain; / Each letter’s allegory grace the hand / By whom the sense should learnèdly be drawn, / To stop the dull conceits of wits profane; / Diving into the depth of hidden art, / To give but due to each deserving part.

   • 1874, “The Two Views of Life”, in The Scramble of New Lights: One of the Hundred Frustrates of the Peek Prize Essay Competition, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Salisbury: Brown & Co., page 166:

     When, however, it is quite undeniable that the vast body of the clergy of the Establishment, with very few isolated exceptions,—such exceptions must always obtrude themselves while the world is a fallen world,—are energetically pursuing their sacred calling as the pastors of all the parishes; when it is matter, and increasingly, of daily notice, that they are diligently seeking the highest welfare of the flocks committed to their care; that they are doing this studiously, learnèdly, prayerfully, devotedly, “in labours, in watchings, in much patience; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness; by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned; by the Word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left; through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report:” […]

   • 1893, Henry Binns, “Pico Della Mirandola”, in The British Friend, page 91:

     Rather wolde God our love than all our witte, / Faith than Philosophie, / The inarticulate pray’r that liftes with it / The soule eternallie, / Than Schoolmen’s lytell thought learnèdly writte.

   • 1895, “An Answer to some Enquiries concerning the Author’s opinion of a Sermon preached at ⸺⸺ upon the Operation of the Holy Spirit”, in Adolphus William Ward, editor, The Poems of John Byrom (Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester; volume 34), volume II (Sacred Poems), part I, Manchester: the Chetham Society, stanza II, page 279:

     While he went on, and learnèdly perplext / The genuine Meaning of his chosen Text, / I cast my Eyes above him, and explor’d / The Dove-like Form upon the Sounding-board.

   • 1912, Contemporary French Poetry, page 129:

     Say, wilt thou follow me to my high house, / Whose silence hears the nibbling of a mouse, / And, with one finger at thy temple, sit / Learnèdly when the shaded lamp is lit, / Exiled and happy in the fireside nook, / Calm idol with thy elbows on the Book / And one hand on its clasp?

   • 1923, The Musical Times, page 390:

     A German Privatdozent would discover in it sixteen allegories, all different, and many mutually exclusive, preface his exegesis with an elaborate and learnèdly documented essay on the parallel between der reine Thor and the Muscovite Innocent.

   • 1983, Ben Jonson, edited by R. Brian Parker, Volpone, or The Fox (The Revels Plays), Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 258:

     Was it not carried learnèdly?

   • 1987, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “Henry VIII”, in The Contemporary Shakespeare Series, →ISBN, act II, scene I, page 264:

     Much / He spoke, and learnèdly, for life; but all / Was either pitied in him or forgotten.

   • 2000, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, edited by Gordon McMullan, King Henry VIII, The Arden Shakespeare, →ISBN, act II, scene I, page 268:

     Much / [line 28] He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all / Was either pitied in him or forgotten. […] 28 learnedly three syllables (learnèdly)

   • 2008, Between Paris and Fresno: Armenian Studies in Honor of Dickran Kouymjian, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, Inc., page 303:

     The noun ակն/ական (akn/akan), best glossed ‘*eye,’ but also ‘spring, opening, gem, and (-) Sun,’ has been well observed and studied descriptively, and long, attentively, learnèdly, and admirably known and studied philologically and historically.

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