judiciously

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

JUDI'CIOUSLY, adverb With good judgment; with discretion or wisdom; skillfully. Longinus has judiciously preferred the sublime genius that sometimes errs, to the middling or indifferent one, which makes few faults, but seldom rises to excellence.
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