Conforming to the law; legally.
This grand ceremony was immediately followed by a proclamation expreſsly forbidding the Abyſſine clergy, monks, and prieſts, to perform any prieſtly functions till they were previouſly examined and approved by the patriarch ; there being ſome reaſon to doubt whether they had been lawfully examined.
From Middle English lawfully, lawfulliche, lawefulliche; equivalent to lawful + -ly.
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