easiliest
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English[edit]
Adverb[edit]
easiliest
- (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