Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POS'SI-BLY, adv.

1. By any power, moral or physical, really existing. Learn all that can possibly be known. Can we possibly his love desert? – Milton.
2. 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. – Addison.