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In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).

In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.

Secretly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

re manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely. His daring foe . . . securely him defied. Milton.

Purely; without alloy. Milton.

In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.

In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.

In a spare manner; sparingly.

In a square form or manner.

Becoming a squire; like a squire.

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [R.] Donne.

nly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii. 17. He that created something out of nothing, surely can raise great things out of small. South.

ily. [Obs.] They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep. Spenser.

In a yare manner. [Obs.] Shak.

d church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

g a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

(a) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. (b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.