easiliest

English

Adverb

easiliest

  1. (literary, dated) superlative form of easily (adverb): most easily
    • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find / The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare / Might easiliest harbour in?
    • December 15 1665, William Temple, letter to Sir William Coventry
      My presumptions may be great with my friends, but they are the easiliest checked of any man's alive.
    • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals:
      Inquire what be the stones that do easiliest melt

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