What Is "Ably"? Definition And Usage Of This Term

What Is Ably? Definition And Usage Of This Term

WHAT IS ABLY – In this topic, we will first know the definition of this term and how is this term used in sentences.

Definition

The Oxford Dictionary described this term as the following:

skillfully; competently
forming adverbs corresponding to adjectives ending in -able (such as suitably corresponding to suitable ).

On the other hand, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines this term as the following:

This term’s first known use with the said meaning above.

Examples

Here are some of the examples:

This silly comic Christmas romp is ably performed by a cast of 22 actors, led by the high-spirited Danny McBride as the childlike Buddy.
In the department of natural theology and the Christian evidences he ably advocated that method of reconciling the Mosaic narrative with the indefinite antiquity of the globe which William Buckland (1784-1856) advanced in his Bridgewater Treatise, and which Dr Chalmers had previously communicated to him.
The whole body of medical literature belonging to the Hippocratic and Alexandrian times is ably summarized, and a knowledge of the state of medical science up to and during the times of the author is thus conveyed to us which can be obtained from no other source.
He claims recognition as an independent a priori propounder of the “First Law of Thermodynamics,” but more especially as having early and ably applied that law to the explanation of many remarkable phenomena, both cosmical and terrestrial.