Meaning of confusedlie | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of confusedly.

Scotland, alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson] they say⟳ 's turned Epigrammatist, / Soe think⟳ not I, believe⟳ it they that list. / Peruse his booke, thou shalt not find⟳ a dram / Of witt befitting a true Epigram. / Perhaps some scraps of play-bookes thou maist see⟳, / Collected heer & there confusedlie, / Which piece his broken stuffe; if thou but note⟳, / Iust like⟳ soe many patches on a cote.”

“Now ye have⟳ the Kingis letter and this ſupplicatioun both coppeit; read⟳ and conſidder both the ane and the uther, with the Counſallis anſuer ſent to the ſaid ſupplicatioun, quhilk is ſo ſtrangelie and confuſedlie ſet down that I can not wnderſtand the ſamen perfectlie weill.”

“After the prayer, Mr. Byfield the ſcribe, reads the propoſition and the Scriptures, whereupon the Aſſemblie debates in a moſt grave and orderlie way. No man is called up to ſpeak; bot who ſtands up of his own⟳ accord, he ſpeaks ſo long as he will without interruption. If two or three ſtand up at once, then the divines confuſedlie calls on his name⟳ whom they deſyre to hear⟳ firſt: On whom the loudeſt and manieſt voices calls, he ſpeaks.”

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