advisedly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English advised Middle English -ly English -ly English advisedly 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 others”

   “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.”

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.”

   “Now when I say the seal is vicious I use the term advisedly, according to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b”