PEACEABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peaceably mean? 

• PEACEABLY (adverb)
  The adverb PEACEABLY has 1 sense:

1. in a peaceable manner

  Familiarity information: PEACEABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEACEABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a peaceable manner

Synonyms:

pacifically; peaceably

Context example:

the tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing the several covenants herein on his part contained shall peaceably hold and enjoy the demised premises

Pertainym:

peaceable (disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature)

 Context examples 

The week which passed so quietly and peaceably at the great house in Mansfield had a very different character at the Parsonage.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His conscience was clear and his heart light amidst all his troubles; so he went peaceably to bed, left all his cares to Heaven, and soon fell asleep.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Catherine did not think the portrait a very inviting one, but it was too late to retreat, and she was too young to own herself frightened; so, resigning herself to her fate, and trusting to the animal's boasted knowledge of its owner, she sat peaceably down, and saw Thorpe sit down by her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Her own ears, with a snuggling movement, laid their sharp points backward and down against the head for a moment, while her mouth opened and her tongue lolled peaceably out, and in this way she expressed that she was pleased and satisfied.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He said, “the Yahoos were known to hate one another, more than they did any different species of animals; and the reason usually assigned was, the odiousness of their own shapes, which all could see in the rest, but not in themselves. He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable. But he now found he had been mistaken, and that the dissensions of those brutes in his country were owing to the same cause with ours, as I had described them. For if,” said he, “you throw among five Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself; and therefore a servant was usually employed to stand by while they were feeding abroad, and those kept at home were tied at a distance from each other: that if a cow died of age or accident, before a Houyhnhnm could secure it for his own Yahoos, those in the neighbourhood would come in herds to seize it, and then would ensue such a battle as I had described, with terrible wounds made by their claws on both sides, although they seldom were able to kill one another, for want of such convenient instruments of death as we had invented. At other times, the like battles have been fought between the Yahoos of several neighbourhoods, without any visible cause; those of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are prepared. But if they find their project has miscarried, they return home, and, for want of enemies, engage in what I call a civil war among themselves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)