"butcherly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Alexander comming to the Ocean of India, cast in favour of Thetis many great rich vessels of gold into the Sea, replenishing moreover her Altars with a butcherly slaughter, not onely of innocent beasts, but of men[…].",
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        "Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage."
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        "Like a butcher; cruelly, brutally."
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        "(obsolete) Like a butcher; cruelly, brutally."
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