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Webster 1913 Edition

Possibly

Pos′si-bly

,
adv.
In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps;
as,
possibly
he may recover
.
Can we . . .
possibly
his love desert?
Milton.
When
possibly
I can, I will return.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Possibly

POS'SIBLY

,
adv.
By any power, moral or physical, really existing. Learn all that can possibly be known.
Can we possibly his love desert?
1.
Perhaps; without absurdity.
Arbitrary power tends to make a man a bad sovereign, who might possibly have been a good one, had he been invested with authority circumscribed by laws.

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