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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unitely, adv. [17th c. Eng. vnitely (1602).] Unitedly; as one. —1675 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 192.
Albeit the king names a deacon of the wrights and a deacon of the masons; so that, … if his meaning had been, that these two trades should elect their respective deacons, they behoved to have dissolved their former society … and to have elected their deacons severally; yet they did make no alteration, but did elect unitely, wrights voting to the election of the deacons of masons,—and they to the wrights
