tentively

English

Etymology

From Middle English tentifly, or by surface analysis, tentive +‎ ly.

Adverb

tentively (comparative more tentively, superlative most tentively)

1. (obsolete) attentively
   • 1795, Uzal Ogden, Antidote to Deism. The Deist Unmasked; […]‎^[1], volume 1, Newark: John Woods, page 50:

     We have a Saviour, tell it out among the heathen, that all the nations of the earth may partake of the gift, whose radient eye brightens tentively on such a subject as this, who are under the domination of the sensual affections and appetites

   • 1901, “Case of Primary Syphilitic Lesion of the Faucial Tonsil”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association‎^[2], volume XXXVII, number 15, Chicago Illinois, Clinical Report, page 979:

     For the three days following her first visit her temperature varied form 99.2 to 100 in the mornings, and from 100.2 to 102 in the evenings. At the first visit she was treated tentifly, her throat being thoroughly cleansed, and a 15 per cent. solution of nitrate of silver was applied to the ulcerated surface