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In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson.

To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

rodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

Openly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Openly; clearly. [Archaic]

To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly. If this which he avouches does appear. Shak. Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. Spenser.

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence. Donne.

Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- A*vow"ed*ly (, adv.

Openly; shamelessly. Locke.

n Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

oisily and outrageously. Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke.

ganization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a social organization, the restrictive laws having been repealed prior to

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

g, contract, etc.; to renounce. -- To declare one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

Manifestly; openly. [Obs.] Desdemona is directly in love with him. Shak.

e the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward.

Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere. With a double heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2.

rich the understanding with knowledge. Seeing, Lord, your great mercy Us hath enriched so openly. Chaucer's Dream.

To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop. There openly enthronized as the very elected king. Knolles.