anight

I remember, when I was in love, I broke my sword upon a stone, and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile […]

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

I speak very kinde things of you between my Maid and I anight as I am going to bed, and next my Prayers too, Heaven forgive me!

1680, Thomas Betterton, The Revenge, or, A Match in Newgate, London: W. Cademan, act IV, scene 1, page 37:

My Lord, there stands in Court one Thomas Johnson, Apprentice to Mr. Pemmel; he can tell what time a-night it was I came to Mr. Humston’s, he let me in; I desire he may be call’d.

1692, The Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Condemnation of Henry Harrison, London, page 18:


off-world

Conrad Verner: Getting the whole getup was pretty expensive, but my wife was really supportive. She even paid for my shuttle fare off-world!

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:


offworld

From off- + world, by analogy with offshore.

The would-be astronauts had not been offworld yet.

(chiefly science fiction) Away from Earth.


gloatily

en-adv

gloatily (comparative more gloatily, superlative most gloatily)

more gloatily (comparative)
most gloatily (superlative)

[…] if you’re better off than your friends and neighbours, then you're gloatily content, but if you're a millionaire trapped in a ghetto of billionaires, you're more likely to be a miserable git.

2005 August 16, “Joanna Briscoe: At the Sharp End”, in The Independent:


cyberly

Jason Woolcott originated the contact list. Jason used his masterful operations research background to keep the class together cyberly.

2002, The Association, Bulletin, Volume 64

[…] colourful games where the player can 'cyberly' dress a wide variety of dolls in a choice of hundreds of different costumes.

2014, Nicola Lonie, Online Safety for Children and Teens on the Autism Spectrum, page 47:

I pointed out to him we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly. He knows. In a cyber way.

2021, Charles P. Pierce, “Vladimir Putin Is a King Bullshit Artist,” Esquire, June 17 [quoting Joe Biden]


traumatologically

(medicine) In terms of traumatology; with respect to the traumatology.


monistically

monistically (comparative more monistically, superlative most monistically)

more monistically (comparative)
most monistically (superlative)


moonishly

moonishly (comparative more moonishly, superlative most moonishly)

more moonishly (comparative)
most moonishly (superlative)


inflatedly

inflatedly (comparative more inflatedly, superlative most inflatedly)

more inflatedly (comparative)
most inflatedly (superlative)


inhibitedly

inhibitedly (comparative more inhibitedly, superlative most inhibitedly)

more inhibitedly (comparative)
most inhibitedly (superlative)


interruptively

interruptively (comparative more interruptively, superlative most interruptively)

more interruptively (comparative)
most interruptively (superlative)


infatuatedly

infatuatedly (comparative more infatuatedly, superlative most infatuatedly)

more infatuatedly (comparative)
most infatuatedly (superlative)


impassionedly

impassionedly (comparative more impassionedly, superlative most impassionedly)

more impassionedly (comparative)
most impassionedly (superlative)


asynclitically

(medicine) In an asynclitic manner; assuming an asynclitic position.


at one blow

'There is no lack of strength,' answered the little tailor. 'Dost thou think that could be anything to a man who has struck down seven at one blow?'

1884 [before 1557], Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Margaret Hunt, editors, The Valiant Little Tailor [European folk tale] (Grimm's Household Tales; 1):

[...] also notable is the condemnation of all but one of the nine Stanier 0-4-4 tanks at one blow.

1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115:

With one strike (of a hand, tool, or weapon).


bitchly

bitchly (comparative more bitchly, superlative most bitchly)

more bitchly (comparative)
most bitchly (superlative)

I wanted to get up and lift her onto the recliner. I wanted to help her get comfortable, perhaps cover her legs with a light blanket. But she was determined, bitchly so, to do most everything herself.

1994, Robert Dingwall Zimmerman, Red Trance, page 34:


piacularly

piacularly (comparative more piacularly, superlative most piacularly)

more piacularly (comparative)
most piacularly (superlative)


uncensoriously

uncensoriously (comparative more uncensoriously, superlative most uncensoriously)

more uncensoriously (comparative)
most uncensoriously (superlative)

It was Martin's job to help solve them and, patiently and uncensoriously, that is what he did.

In an uncensorious way; without censure.


woman-fashion

1875, May Agnes Fleming, Norine’s Revenge in Norine’s Revenge and Sir Noel’s Heir, New York: Carleton, 1886, Chapter 6, p. 74,
Mr. Gilbert took her out for a walk after breakfast, and Uncle Reuben availed himself of the opportunity to inform his sister and brother. They were no more surprised than he had been, and equally pleased, but Aunt Hetty cried quietly, woman-fashion, for all that.

Lloyd turned to her mail, and one after another slit the envelopes, woman fashion, with a shell hair-pin.

1902, Frank Norris, chapter 9, in A Man’s Woman, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 232:

1953, Algis Budrys, “Dream of Victory” in Amazing Stories, Volume 27, No. 6, August-September 1953, p. 43,
Lisa clenched her fists, knuckles forward, woman-fashion.

Yet in spite of this profound intimacy, this flirtation of private minds, she was still hungry to get nearer to him, to devour him woman-fashion.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 9, in Constance, New York: Viking, page 289:

In the manner in which a woman is thought or expected to act.

Since it is quite muddy put my linen safeguard petticoat on him, Patty, the better to conceal his long legs, for it will be somewhat awkward riding woman-fashion, but my saddle is broad.

1890, Amanda M. Douglas, chapter 15, in A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia, New York: A.L. Burt, page 217:

On looking out, the woman continued, she saw, in the grey of the morning, more gentlemen than she had ever before seen in one place, all on horseback, in armour, and dripping wet—and that Kinmont Willie, who sat woman fashion behind one of them, was the biggest carle she ever saw—and there was much merriment in the company.

1913, Andrew Lang, John Lang, chapter 17, in Highways and Byways in the Border, London: Macmillan, page 399:

He imagined her tiny, lithe figure at his side, on a horse she would mount not woman-fashion but astride […]

2013, Julian Barnes, “On the Level”, in Levels of Life, Random House Canada:

Sidesaddle, riding (a horse, etc.) with both legs on the same side of the animal.


cluefully

cluefully (comparative more cluefully, superlative most cluefully)

more cluefully (comparative)
most cluefully (superlative)


unluxuriously

unluxuriously (comparative more unluxuriously, superlative most unluxuriously)

more unluxuriously (comparative)
most unluxuriously (superlative)

If not, a night in mid-April would be unluxuriously chilly.

2013, Rob Brezsny, The Televisionary Oracle:

In a manner that is characterized by the absence of luxury.


any time now

The train will be arriving any time now.


out and away

It is scarcely so touching as Daisy Miller, which is out and away the best thing of its kind in recent English; but it is a piece of work so capable and original, so vigorous, and to a certain point so telling, as to be worthy of equal praise and study.

1878, W. E. Henley, review of The Europeans by Henry James; in Academy (xiv, 354)


dianetically

Alternative letter-case form of Dianetically


top to tail

Synonym of head to toe (“in reversed positions”)


slightlier

(rare, literary, dated) comparative form of slightly: more slightly


slightliest

(rare, literary, dated) superlative form of slightly: most slightly


weight for age

[H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243:

(horse racing) Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).


serodiagnostically

In a serodiagnostic way; using serodiagnosis; diagnostically by way of serology.


retronasally

From retro- + nasally or retronasal + -ly.


ablood

ablood (comparative more ablood, superlative most ablood)

more ablood (comparative)
most ablood (superlative)

From Middle English ablode, variant of on blode, equivalent to a- + blood.

My pierced life was all ablood with sorrow!

"Ay, Master Pengorn: How, when we were all in despair at thy non-coming, and Master Pierce and John Cann going down before this French tor of flesh, will I forget the mighty shout that went up from Cornish throats when thou cast thyself all ablood from the foaming mare! […]"

1905, Alexander Alexander, The Pirates' Hoard, page 18:

(archaic) With blood; covered in blood; bloodied


with this

‘Blood and thunder,’ roared the other gentleman. With this he whipped his sword out, and made a lunge at my uncle without further ceremony.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

When this happened; hereupon, after this moment.


audiologically

In an audiological manner; by way of audiology.


off-plan

About 2m off-plan homes remain unfinished across China, according to a rough estimate by S&P. […] In 2021, about 90% of homes were sold off plan in China.

2022 September 25, Martin Farrer, “A Ponzi scheme by any other name: the bursting of China’s property bubble”, in The Guardian:

Of a property: without yet having had a structure built on it.


pregestationally

From pregestational + -ly. By surface analysis, pre- + gestation + -ally.


uninjuriously

en-adv

uninjuriously (comparative more uninjuriously, superlative most uninjuriously)

more uninjuriously (comparative)
most uninjuriously (superlative)


to the moon and back

Guess How Much I Love You (1994) by Sam McBratney


intraculturally

intraculturally (comparative more intraculturally, superlative most intraculturally)

more intraculturally (comparative)
most intraculturally (superlative)

In an intracultural way; within a culture.


interchromosomally

From interchromosomal + -ly or inter- + chromosome + -ally.

Homologous recombination occurs intrachromosomally as well as interchromosomally, both in mitotic (somatic) cells as well as meiotically in the germline. These different processes can serve very different purposes in maintaining the integrity of the organism and in enhancing diversity in the species.

1995, Shulman MJ, Collins C, Connor A, Read LR, Baker MD, “Interchromosomal recombination is suppressed in mammalian somatic cells”, in The EMBO Journal, volume 14, number 16, →PMID, →PMCID, pages 4102–4107:

Between or among chromosomes; in an interchromosomal manner.


temulently

temulently (comparative more temulently, superlative most temulently)

more temulently (comparative)
most temulently (superlative)


nonpejoratively

nonpejoratively (comparative more nonpejoratively, superlative most nonpejoratively)

more nonpejoratively (comparative)
most nonpejoratively (superlative)

Intensive regulation under the rubric of the public utility category was an attempt to juxtapose the coercive (nonpejoratively used) power of government with the coercive (nonpejoratively used) power of certain businesses.

2002, Edythe Stern Miller, Warren J. Samuels, The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utilities Regulation, page 484:

If one may speak nonpejoratively of "trends" in Platonic scholarship, I believe it is fair to say that, especially in the English-speaking world, there is a multifaceted trend to view Plato's dialogues "nondogmatically."

2010, Gary Alan Scott, Does Socrates Have a Method?, →ISBN:

Now whether this characterization does indeed warrant his conclusion depends upon whether the term “manipulation” is used pejoratively or nonpejoratively.

2011, Ward E. Jones, Samantha Vice, Ethics at the Cinema, →ISBN, page 45:


dysgraphically

dysgraphically (comparative more dysgraphically, superlative most dysgraphically)

more dysgraphically (comparative)
most dysgraphically (superlative)


supersedingly

So as to supersede or take over from something else.


disempoweringly

disempoweringly (comparative more disempoweringly, superlative most disempoweringly)

more disempoweringly (comparative)
most disempoweringly (superlative)


atraumatically

atraumatically (comparative more atraumatically, superlative most atraumatically)

more atraumatically (comparative)
most atraumatically (superlative)


presymptomatically

One was diagnosed presymptomatically because his brother, whose onset was at 13 months, had the disease […]

2005, William L. Nyhan, Bruce A. Barshop, Pinar T. Ozand, Atlas of Metabolic Diseases: Second Edition, page 10:

(medicine) Before the appearance of symptoms.


dysrhythmically

dysrhythmically (comparative more dysrhythmically, superlative most dysrhythmically)

more dysrhythmically (comparative)
most dysrhythmically (superlative)


hinderly

hinderly (comparative more hinderly, superlative most hinderly)

more hinderly (comparative)
most hinderly (superlative)

Before, and hinderly, the edges are toothed, and bended outward and upward.

1685, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, page 36:

(archaic) In the hinder or rear position.


in the process

The oils and gases generated in the process are burnt and the resulting stream is brought back into contact with the feedstock inside the reactor.

1997, H. J. Manuel, W. Dierkes, Recycling of Rubber, →ISBN, page 24:

Individuals who engage in these activities do not enjoy making animals suffer; however, they understand that animals will be hurt in the process.

2003, Karel Kurst-Swanger, Jacqueline L. Petcosky, Violence in the Home: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, →ISBN, page 148:


wokely

wokely (comparative more wokely, superlative most wokely)

more wokely (comparative)
most wokely (superlative)


lozengeways

lozengeways (comparative more lozengeways, superlative most lozengeways)

more lozengeways (comparative)
most lozengeways (superlative)


lozengewise

lozengewise (comparative more lozengewise, superlative most lozengewise)

more lozengewise (comparative)
most lozengewise (superlative)

(heraldry) Placed like a lozenge (a diamond).


undependably

undependably (comparative more undependably, superlative most undependably)

more undependably (comparative)
most undependably (superlative)

In an undependable manner; such that it cannot be relied upon.


en cabochon

An extraordinary fine chatoyant cymophane, of a circular form, cut at the top en cabochan, and flat at the back, of a yellowish-green colour, semi-transparent, and very thin.

1839, Henry Philip Hope, Bram Hertz, A Catalogue of the Collection of Pearls and Precious Stones Formed by Henry Philip Hope, Esq:


togither

Where, vpon the 10. day of December, it fortuned, that in Sir William Cicells chamber, hir Highnesse Principall Secretarie, there dined togither these personages, M. Secretarie him selfe...

1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:


Zariski

Anglicisation of Russian Зари́сский (Zarísskij).

Zariski closed — Zariski open — Zariski dense

Zariski topology
Zariski topology#English


toot suite

Homophonic translation of French tout de suite.

The train's about to leave; you'd better get down here toot suite!

‘Them bloody chaps 'ave a cushy job,’ said little Martlow with resentful envy. ‘Just fly over the line, take a peek at ol' Fritz, and as soon as a bit o' shrapnel comes their way, fuck off 'ome jildy, toot suite.’

1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 27:

(slang) Very quickly; in a hurry; straight away.


twiced

“They're just cows.” “True.” “How many times a day you milk her, twiced?” Twiced, they all said. Oncet, twiced. She wondered if that was a vestige of Old English hanging on in these isolated mountain towns. “I just milk once a day, believe it or not. Even that's more than I need now. Just before you came in that door, I was making up my mind for this to be my last milking.”

2008, Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer, →ISBN:


twicet

Only thing was, Beulah and me kissed twicet, oncet when her and Dory come over to the campfire place that mornin', and oncet when I was ready to ride away. And she felt of my face and neck like she wanted to recollect how they felt to her hand. Doin' that, she smiled that crooked smile of hers that had got me in trouble. Well, I cain't say for certain it was any trouble. She was a different kind of a woman than I'd ever knowed and I loved that about her.

2005, Hughlett Morris, Luther's Women: A Differnt Civil War Story, →ISBN, page 199:

(Southern US, South Midland US, regional) Twice.


unsinkably

unsinkably (comparative more unsinkably, superlative most unsinkably)

more unsinkably (comparative)
most unsinkably (superlative)

an unsinkably optimistic person

(figurative) Such that it cannot be overcome or defeated.


unprocedurally

unprocedurally (comparative more unprocedurally, superlative most unprocedurally)

more unprocedurally (comparative)
most unprocedurally (superlative)


uncircumscribably

uncircumscribably (comparative more uncircumscribably, superlative most uncircumscribably)

more uncircumscribably (comparative)
most uncircumscribably (superlative)


chronographically

In terms of or by means of chronography.


exceptionlessly

exceptionlessly (comparative more exceptionlessly, superlative most exceptionlessly)

more exceptionlessly (comparative)
most exceptionlessly (superlative)

(uncommon) In an exceptionless manner, (performed) without exception.


eye to eye

eye to eye (comparative more eye to eye, superlative most eye to eye)

more eye to eye (comparative)
most eye to eye (superlative)


luminescently

luminescently (comparative more luminescently, superlative most luminescently)

more luminescently (comparative)
most luminescently (superlative)


dweebily

dweebily (comparative more dweebily, superlative most dweebily)

more dweebily (comparative)
most dweebily (superlative)

But in fact she and her friend Bleeker, in his dweebily short running shorts, confound their peers' social categories altogether—and adults' preconceptions, too.

2011, Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper, Axelrod & Cooper's Concise Guide to Writing:

(US, originally university slang, now general slang, derogatory) In a dweeby manner.


deckwise

deckwise (comparative more deckwise, superlative most deckwise)

more deckwise (comparative)
most deckwise (superlative)

Deckwise, there was a Supreme Capt., an Assistant Supreme Capt., a deputy Supreme Capt., six Asst. Deputy Supreme Capts., six Jr. Asst. Deputy Supreme Capts., six Jr. Third Asst. Deputy Capts., and the usual number of Chief Mates, Asst. Chief Mates, Second Mates, Third Mates and Fourth Mates, about 72 mates in all, Dad thinks.

1961, Marine Digest - Volume 40, Issues 1-18, page 8:

This lobster boat wasn't much larger, deckwise, than a rowboat, it seemed.

1993, Sandy Dengler, A model murder: a Jack Prester mystery, →ISBN, page 112:

We might have all been in the same boat during the war, but The Mauretania was arranged deckwise like the ocean liner - first class for the officers down to stowage for other ranks.

2006, Ian Bone, Bash the Rich: True-life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK, page 7:

The starched maids who strolled deckwise of an evening had long since tumbled into their bunks to snore like ladies until such hour as they chose luxuriously to arise.

1912, Arthur Cheney Train, "C Q": Or, In the Wireless House, page 59:

She was adorned with many movable planks, each laid deckwise when not in use as a gangway.

1913, Catholic World - Volume 97, page 769:

Every time I followed a length of stairs I went deeper into the ship. Not depthwise, but deckwise.

1975, Phyllis Reid Fenner, Full forty fathoms: stories of underwater adventure, →ISBN, page 82:


ludologically

en-adverb

ludologically (comparative more ludologically, superlative most ludologically)

more ludologically (comparative)
most ludologically (superlative)

With respect to ludology, in a ludological way.


deck-wise

en-adv

deck-wise (comparative more deck-wise, superlative most deck-wise)

more deck-wise (comparative)
most deck-wise (superlative)

If you want to go all out and live well deck-wise, try pizzazz, the glamour deck shown here.

1980, Mechanix Illustrated - Volume 76, Issues 620-625, page 96:

Unfortunately, Lee's turntable man is no AM, and the classic rock, funk, punk and metal sludge didn't offer anything new sonically, drum- or deck-wise (it was like watching a really good practice session with some eye candy thrown in ... rockin' but not revelatory).

2010 January 13, Lina Lecaro, “Drummers, Drag-sters and Death Rockers”, in LA Weekly:

Deck-wise, she appeared well battened down, but on closer inspection, I discovered she was low in the water, sluggish and corkscrewing with the slow ponderous rolling, wallow of a boat with water inside her hull.

Alternative form of deckwise
Concerning a deck

By separating an originally rectilinear bar having a constant cross-section in its longitudinal extent into bar portions located deck-wise above each other […] and which fit into each other such to supplement each other to the original shape, whereby the separating is done preferably by punching, an extremely rugged contact bar structure is arrived at in a most easy way, which is suitable for the rough environment of a textile mill, and in which the bar portions located remote from the ends of the bar have their connection points located at the end of the bar.

1989, E Steiner, Contact bar for the warp stop motion - US Patent 4,854,351:

However, there is sufficient room cross-deck-wise between the outermost mounted tower sections to mount two additional tower sections —but locking components of respective support members secured to tower sections cannot properly align with remaining locking components of deck D.

2012, T Wessel, P Scott, System and method for transporting wind turbine tower sections on a shipping vessel - US Patent 8,186,916:

Weapon barrels pointed deck-wise between clenched knees, eighteen or so of us sat across from one another on one of many twinpropped whirlybirds, flying fore and aft, right and left of us in tight flight formation, the cool wind whipping through the four portholed windows about our whowhopwhop! sounding bird like April winds back home, the gook sky clear as a polished robin's egg, but for a few sparse clouds floating about.

2016, Cpl. Osborn R. E., Like Killing Rats, →ISBN:

Alternative form of deckwise
Along or toward a deck


multinationally

en-adverb

multinationally (comparative more multinationally, superlative most multinationally)

more multinationally (comparative)
most multinationally (superlative)


unpedagogically

en-adv

unpedagogically (comparative more unpedagogically, superlative most unpedagogically)

more unpedagogically (comparative)
most unpedagogically (superlative)


innoxiously

innoxiously (comparative more innoxiously, superlative most innoxiously)

more innoxiously (comparative)
most innoxiously (superlative)


unredeemingly

unredeemingly (comparative more unredeemingly, superlative most unredeemingly)

more unredeemingly (comparative)
most unredeemingly (superlative)


redeemingly

redeemingly (comparative more redeemingly, superlative most redeemingly)

more redeemingly (comparative)
most redeemingly (superlative)


unredeemably

unredeemably (comparative more unredeemably, superlative most unredeemably)

more unredeemably (comparative)
most unredeemably (superlative)


redeemably

redeemably (comparative more redeemably, superlative most redeemably)

more redeemably (comparative)
most redeemably (superlative)


structurely

The fact that man is structurely the highest of the mammals has led to the belief that he must have last been evolved, but the limbs of man are those of a primitive type common in the Eocene and his superiority consists only in the complexity and size […]

1884, The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, volume 6, page 417:

It is the outermost or superficial layer made up of pyramidal cells which concerns us in connection with criminality. It evolves structurely the more we ascend the scale among mammals.

1908, The Westminster Review, volume 169, page 425:

Structurely, the curriculum consists of seven areas of instruction. The first of the seven areas covered in the curriculum is a period of one week devoted to basic information.

1954, Naval Training Bulletin, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 12:

(dated or nonstandard) In terms of structure; structurally.


sponsorially

This eminent man, afterwards Lord Oriel, was the near relative of the subject of our present memoir; he also attended for him sponsorially at the baptismal font, and invoked the combined powers of genius, learning, and eloquence, to take charge of his youthful ward and namesake, John Leslie Foster the younger.

1842, “The Note-Book of an Irish Barrister”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 33, page 338:


suitingly

suitingly (comparative more suitingly, superlative most suitingly)

more suitingly (comparative)
most suitingly (superlative)


noncolligatively

From non- + colligatively or noncolligative + -ly.

(chemistry, physics) In a noncolligative manner


chartwise

It was released in October 1969 and was No 2 chartwise in the U.S.A. for two weeks with 1 3 weeks in the best-sellers.

1978, Joseph Murrells, The Book of Golden Discs, London: Barrie & Jenkins:

September-November: A busy period chartwise with "Guess Things Happen That Way" finishing its chart run...

2001, Peter Lewry, I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle, →ISBN:

Despite the fact that neither of these releases was terribly impressive chartwise (though both did well on the R&B charts), Atlantic did release an album called Sweet Charlie Babe, Moore's first album.

2013, Rick Simmons, Carolina Beach Music from the '60s to the '80s: The New Wave, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:

In or with regard to charts, especially those that track the popularity of songs.


otherwhence

'Twere a goodly boon
If men could raise their children otherwhence
And there should be no woman tribe at all;
So would there be no mischief in the world.

1868, Augusta Webster, transl., The Medea of Euripides, pages 37–38, lines 571–574:

(formal, now rare) By other means; From otherwhere.


someways

Somehow, in an unspecified manner; someway.


teledermoscopically

Hence, we have data of about half of the participants with a teledermoscopically suspicious lesion and definitive diagnoses of half of this population.

2010, Marjam-Jeanette Barysch, Antonio Cozzio, Isabel Kolm, Susanne Ruf Hrdlicka, Christoph Brand, Robert Hunger, Oliver Kreyden, Reto Schaffner, Thomas Zaugg, Reinhard Dummer, “Internet based health promotion campaign against skin cancer–Results of www. skincheck. ch in Switzerland”, in European Journal of Dermatology, volume 20, number 1:

Mobile Teledermatology, Tele dermoscopy, Tele dermatopathology, and Teledermoscopically-aided dermatopathology and Teledermatosurgery are rapidly developing fields in the yet young field of Teledermatology.

2013 April-June, Jayakar Thomas, Parimalam Kumar, “The scope of teledermatology in India”, in Indian dermatology online journal, volume 4, number 2:

Clinical and dermatoscopic face-to-face diagnoses were considered suitable in patients with clinically and teledermoscopically benign and nonsuspected lesions and no biopsy procedure was performed.

2018, C.B. Barcaui, P.M.O. Lima, “Application of Teledermoscopy in the Diagnosis of Pigmented Lesions”, in International journal of telemedicine and applications:


lithoautotrophically

From litho- + autotrophically or lithoautotrophic + -ally.


underivatively

underivatively (comparative more underivatively, superlative most underivatively)

more underivatively (comparative)
most underivatively (superlative)


uncontextually

uncontextually (comparative more uncontextually, superlative most uncontextually)

more uncontextually (comparative)
most uncontextually (superlative)


punctuatim

A 'verbatim, literatim, et punctuatim' reprint under the editorial care of Jo- seph Haslewood, who has prefixed a very interesting introduction,[…]

1857, William Thomas Lowndes, The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing: With Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold..., page 118:

Point for point; repeating each point (of an argument or doctrine) precisely.


microrobotically

From micro- + robotically or microrobotic + -ally.


multidisciplinarily

In a multidisciplinary manner; in a fashion that involves several academic disciplines.


adenovirally

By means of, or in relation to adenoviruses


postembryonically

From post- + embryonically or postembryonic + -ally.


a tad

(informal) To a small extent; in a small amount.


a mite

From a + mite (“minute arachnid of the order Acarina; anything very small, a minute object, a very little quantity or particle”).

"I hope Mary has been the best of girls?" / "The bestest little girl, Sir—a mite too lively, perhaps, especially when she hears you're coming to see her,[…].["]

[1870], [Frederick William Robinson], “The Young Guardian”, in Owen:—A Waif (Select Library of Fiction), new edition, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (Battle-ground), page 117:

"Silas, now," Esther Whitley had said, "would be a good one for you, Hannah. He's a mite on the old side, but he's steady, an' he's been wed before. He knows the ways of a woman better'n some."

1956, Janice Holt Giles, chapter 8, in Hannah Fowler, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC; republished Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1992, →ISBN, page 69:

Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them.

1959, Frances Cavanah, Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, Chicago, Ill.: Rand McNally, →OCLC; Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance (ReadHowYouWant Classics Library), EasyRead large edition, U.S.A.: ReadHowYouWant, 2008, →ISBN, page 30:

Words, words, words, bemoans Hamlet, in conversation with the garrulous but inconsequential Polonius, whom he labels a "seller of fish". Given that the Prince of Denmark is himself legendary for vacillation and inaction, this always seemed a mite cheeky to me.

2018 November 29, Brian Taylor, “Brexit and sellers of fish”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2019-06-26:

The new show’s look is a mite slicker and the comic situations are set up and executed better, including Episode 1 in which Beavis and Butt-Head mistake an escape room’s bathroom for the place they need to escape.

2022 October 4, Jason Zinoman, “The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In those circumstances, you’d have thought someone who had just blown $36bn of his company’s money in the pursuit of a personal obsession would have been a mite apologetic, wouldn’t you?

2023 May 13, John Naughton, “A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(informal) To a small extent; in a small amount; rather.


nasendoscopically

In terms of, or by means of, nasendoscopy.


potentionally

en-adverb

potentionally (comparative more potentionally, superlative most potentionally)

more potentionally (comparative)
most potentionally (superlative)


uncryptically

en-adv

uncryptically (comparative more uncryptically, superlative most uncryptically)

more uncryptically (comparative)
most uncryptically (superlative)

In a way that is not cryptic; straightforwardly; plainly.


largelier

comparative form of largely: more largely


intraliposomally

From intra- + liposomally or intraliposomal + -ly.


monocistronically

From mono- + cistronically or monocistronic + -ally.


underbreath

underbreath (comparative more underbreath, superlative most underbreath)

more underbreath (comparative)
most underbreath (superlative)

Muttering curses underbreath, he jabs the beast sharply with his training stick ; the elephant is hairy and it, like the clown, is ignoble.

1978, The William and Mary Review - Volumes 17-18, page 66:

The name, Night Stalker, seemed to find favor with Bo who repeated it underbreath several times.

2004, John Oros Sentesi, Swanson, →ISBN:

Here, on the contrary, we murmur underbreath.

2013, R. F. Fortune, Sorcerers of Dobu, →ISBN:

Under one's breath; inaudibly or in a barely audible manner.


desiredly

desiredly (comparative more desiredly, superlative most desiredly)

more desiredly (comparative)
most desiredly (superlative)

In a manner that is desired; desirably or agreeably.


accentedly

accentedly (comparative more accentedly, superlative most accentedly)

more accentedly (comparative)
most accentedly (superlative)


unideally

unideally (comparative more unideally, superlative most unideally)

more unideally (comparative)
most unideally (superlative)


beknownst

Probably a back-formation from unbeknownst.

Axin' yer pardin, Misther O'Brien, but 'tis well beknownst to a jintleman of your exthraordinady mintal an' quizzical fackilties that the consthruction of the words consthitutes the differ of langwidged, of which pothooks an' hangers is the ilimints.

1854, Sylvanus Urban, “A Great Mulrooney Story”, in Godey's Lady Book:

The if he was n't hiding' here beknownst to you, he must have changed his mind agin and got away by the embarcadero.

1887, Bret Harte, A Blue Grass Penelope:

Upon her 21 birthday as she had asked the gypsy came to her with her book of spells and on the rising of the night star she did take Angelique deep into the woods where beknownst to only them she performed a ritual so old and ancient that most of her own kind no longer knew it existed.

2003, K.S. McCoy, My Mind's Eye, →ISBN, page 37:

Then for reasons best beknownst to him, the batman took note of the woman's presence and then tried to shrug off the glamour o’ sea.

2008, Miles Hawke, The Dragonnade, →ISBN, page 56:

Little beknownst to either of them, they were being followed by a very clumsy, wet, and muddy-pawed mutt, the Cassidy hound.

2011, Edward F. Cassidy, Looking Back on Tomorrow: A Life Story, →ISBN, page 111:

(colloquial, followed by the preposition to) Known; In (someone's) awareness.


unadulterately

unadulterately (comparative more unadulterately, superlative most unadulterately)

more unadulterately (comparative)
most unadulterately (superlative)


nucleoplasmically

By means of, or with respect to nucleoplasm


orogastrically

By means of, or with reference to the mouth and the stomach


most of the times

most of the time
most of the time#English


not anymore

"I heard you were working at a bank." "I was, but not anymore."


sociolinguistically

sociolinguistically (comparative more sociolinguistically, superlative most sociolinguistically)

more sociolinguistically (comparative)
most sociolinguistically (superlative)

/ˌsəʊʃjəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk(ə)li/


a smidgen

I don't know if he had the right sized head—it seemed a smidgen small to my untrained eye.

2014, J. Michael Orenduff, The Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy, →ISBN:

(informal) Synonym of a tad, a mite, a bit, a little


cytoarchitectonically

In a cytoarchitectonic manner; with regards to, or in terms of, cytoarchitectonics.


photomixotrophically

From photo- + mixotrophically or photomixotrophic + -ally.


better late then never

better late than never
better late than never#English


sooner then later

sooner than later
sooner than later#English


preauricularly

(medicine) In a preauricular manner; in front of the ear.


retroauricularly

(medicine) In a retroauricular manner; behind the ear.


chemoheterotrophically

From chemo- + heterotrophically or chemoheterotrophic + -ally.


tooth-and-nail

They fought tooth-and-nail


telomerically

With regard to, or by means of telomeres


close to one's heart

close to one's heart (comparative closer to one's heart, superlative closest to one's heart)

closer to one's heart (comparative)
closest to one's heart (superlative)

I held these special moments close to my heart.

2012, Marelise Bekker, Through the Door of Hope!, →ISBN, page 19:

In a deeply concerned manner or with great love.


scriptwise

The plot was interesting, but I didn't think much of the film scriptwise.


lickety

From earlier lickedy (“slick, sleek, fast”), equivalent to lick + -ety.

lickety-cut

lickety-split

Away they started, “lickety-click,” and arrived at the winning-post within touching distance of each other.

1843, John S. Robb, Streaks of Squatter of Life, and Far-west Scenes, page 116:

Lickity, lickity, switch, we came to the ford, and Chiquita / Buckled right down to her work

1886, Bret Harte, “Chiquita”, in Abraham Firth, editor, Voices for the Speechless, page 95:

(US, informal, usually compounded with a noun) At full speed, fast.


sophically

sophically (comparative more sophically, superlative most sophically)

more sophically (comparative)
most sophically (superlative)


starboard-side

starboard-side (comparative more starboard-side, superlative most starboard-side)

more starboard-side (comparative)
most starboard-side (superlative)


starboardside

starboardside (comparative more starboardside, superlative most starboardside)

more starboardside (comparative)
most starboardside (superlative)

Ship was to dock portside to at pier 1 but ended up starboardside as docking became seriously complicated

1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Civil functions, Department of the Army, page 2614:

We went starboardside to the A077 and fueled, the Alabama on her other side.

1979, Joseph A. Donahue, Tin cans and other ships: a war diary, 1941-1945, page 236:


affectually

affectually (comparative more affectually, superlative most affectually)

more affectually (comparative)
most affectually (superlative)


purgingly

purgingly (comparative more purgingly, superlative most purgingly)

more purgingly (comparative)
most purgingly (superlative)


assentatorily

assentatorily (comparative more assentatorily, superlative most assentatorily)

more assentatorily (comparative)
most assentatorily (superlative)


hippity-hoppity

en-adverb

hippity-hoppity (comparative more hippity-hoppity, superlative most hippity-hoppity)

more hippity-hoppity (comparative)
most hippity-hoppity (superlative)

Just imagine Mr. Bird, with his poor sciatic leg, standing at the head of State Street with a bucket of water in one hand and a little engine in the other, and see him, when the telegraph strikes an alarm, starting off with all his might, hippity, hoppity, almost two miles an hour, for a fire which may be one or five miles away !

1873, Joseph W. Bird, Protection Against Fire, and the Best Means of Putting Out Fires in Cities, Towns, and Villages, page 70:


hippity

hippity (comparative more hippity, superlative most hippity)

more hippity (comparative)
most hippity (superlative)

Fanciful extension hip, a regional variant of hop, + -ety. Attested since the nineteenth century.

“W’at’ll de rab’its do w’en de pile am burnin’?” ¶ “Dey’ll jes hippity, skippity, an’ git hout, an’ now min’ I w’at tell yer,” replied the old negro.

1889, Carlisle B. Holding, Her Ben: A Tale of Royal Resolves, page 159:

Sammy Squirrel slept inside the tortoise's house until nightfall and then he came out and, skippity-hippity, away he went to Owl's Barn.

1955, Time & Tide, volume 36, page 1582:


anthropopathically

en-adv

anthropopathically (comparative more anthropopathically, superlative most anthropopathically)

more anthropopathically (comparative)
most anthropopathically (superlative)


hypsochromically

hypsochromically (comparative more hypsochromically, superlative most hypsochromically)

more hypsochromically (comparative)
most hypsochromically (superlative)


unmeritingly

unmeritingly (comparative more unmeritingly, superlative most unmeritingly)

more unmeritingly (comparative)
most unmeritingly (superlative)

/ˌʌnˈmɛɹɪtɪŋli/

It was no loss to society that Buckingham failed and fell. He was not the man to regenerate the nobility of England, or to plant moral principles on its throne. Yet, altho he perished, neither lamented nor unmeritingly, it was he that wove the plans and made the cords, which pulled down Richard from his state.

1830, Sharon Turner, chapter IX, in The History of England during the Middle Ages, 3rd edition, volume III, London: Longman et al., book IV, page 507:

I must thank you again and again for the kind wishes expressed, and feel only too happy to know that my poor verses have, perhaps unmeritingly, found approbation in your eyes, an approbation of which they well may feel proud.

1886, Madison Cawein, edited by Otto A. Rothert, The Story of a Poet: Madison Cawein, Louisville: J. P. Morton & Company, published 1921, page 176:

I have two other reasons for quoting at some length from the poem, besides that it is little known, namely, that it will be interesting to learn as much as we can of the man who (unmeritingly) had so mighty an influence on Shakespeare’s mind; and because I shall have hereafter to consider somewhat curiously, the fact of the poet’s having, the friendship broken, formed this conception of ideal villainy in Pembroke.

1901, Charles Downing, chapter V, in God in Shakespeare, 2nd edition, London: Greening Co., page 158:


overawingly

overawingly (comparative more overawingly, superlative most overawingly)

more overawingly (comparative)
most overawingly (superlative)


unecologically

unecologically (comparative more unecologically, superlative most unecologically)

more unecologically (comparative)
most unecologically (superlative)


uneccentrically

uneccentrically (comparative more uneccentrically, superlative most uneccentrically)

more uneccentrically (comparative)
most uneccentrically (superlative)


consentually

consentually (comparative more consentually, superlative most consentually)

more consentually (comparative)
most consentually (superlative)

2007, American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education, The ... Annual National Institute on Securities Fraud: A Publication of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, Section of Business Law, and the Center
Another prosecutor favorite is the use of a cooperating individual and the consentually monitored and recorded conversation.

(perhaps nonstandard) Alternative spelling of consensually.


planfully

planfully (comparative more planfully, superlative most planfully)

more planfully (comparative)
most planfully (superlative)


correlationally

In terms of, or by means of, correlation.


nose-first

nose-first (comparative more nose-first, superlative most nose-first)

more nose-first (comparative)
most nose-first (superlative)

Bullets do not fly straight, nose-first, but move slowly around their long axis in flight (precession).

2012, Martin J Dougherty, Sniper: SAS and Elite Forces Guide:, →ISBN:


nosefirst

nosefirst (comparative more nosefirst, superlative most nosefirst)

more nosefirst (comparative)
most nosefirst (superlative)

The defeat was made complete when Morton's only functioning follower ran nosefirst into the point of a sword held by one of Standish's men.

1977, William E. Burrows, Vigilante!, page 28:

The sight of a destroyer slipping nosefirst beneath the water, carrying its crew to their deaths, was something that I could no longer watch.

1992, Joe Foss, Paul McCarthy, Top Guns, →ISBN, page 285:

It dropped nosefirst, and though Russell tried to get the nose to rise, the weight of the engine forced it down.

2014, Joseph Monninger, Stay Alive #1: Crash, →ISBN:


amusively

amusively (comparative more amusively, superlative most amusively)

more amusively (comparative)
most amusively (superlative)


callosally

With reference to, or by means of the corpus callosum


perceivingly

So as to perceive; by means of, or accompanied by, perception.


unexcitably

unexcitably (comparative more unexcitably, superlative most unexcitably)

more unexcitably (comparative)
most unexcitably (superlative)


nowhy

"You must not talk that way, Devereux," he said, still a good deal more dismayed by his looks than his words. "Why are you so troubled with vapours and blue devils?"
"Nowhy!" said Devereux, with a grim smile.

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Two Comrades are Tête-à-Tête in Their Old Quarters, and Doctor Sturk’s Cue Is Cut Off, and a Consultation Commences”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 139:


cloakwise

So saying, Dangerfield, with his left hand, clapt his cocked hat on, and with a ghastly smile nodded a farewell to Mrs. Jukes, who, sobbing plentifully had placed his white surtout, cloakwise over his shoulders, buttoning it about his throat.

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “The Wher-wolf”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 211:


reflexly

a reflexly elicited contraction


peninsularly

peninsularly (comparative more peninsularly, superlative most peninsularly)

more peninsularly (comparative)
most peninsularly (superlative)

In a peninsular fashion; like, or as, a peninsula.


footward

When I glanced footward, the pack's waist belt was out of sight, overhung with belly.

2009, Clive Scott Chisholm, Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream:


pant-wettingly

pant-wettingly (comparative more pant-wettingly, superlative most pant-wettingly)

more pant-wettingly (comparative)
most pant-wettingly (superlative)

(informal) So as to cause great fear or hilarity.


unindustriously

unindustriously (comparative more unindustriously, superlative most unindustriously)

more unindustriously (comparative)
most unindustriously (superlative)


unindulgently

unindulgently (comparative more unindulgently, superlative most unindulgently)

more unindulgently (comparative)
most unindulgently (superlative)


pannierwise

1874, W. Cave Thomas, “On the Centre-rail Railway,” Report of the Forty-Third Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Notes and Abstracts, p. 219,
This differs from other projects bearing a similar title, in which carriages and engines are swung, pannierwise, on either side of a raised rail, beam, or wire.

Beneath these still solid monuments of the Doges there passes now the befezzed butcher, his bleeding lambs’ carcasses slung from hooks on two boards, which he hangs pannierwise on his pony’s back.

1897, G. W. Steevens, chapter 2, in With the Conquering Turk, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, page 14:

But the captain’s eyes were on their horses—thoroughbreds, although one carried a pack. Her two sizable boxes, not heavy, were affixed pannierwise, and above them were stores—pots and pans, and hay for the horses.

1955, Denton Whitson, chapter 2, in The Governor’s Daughter, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 23:

In the manner of panniers, fastened on either side of the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried over both shoulders.


wholewise

wholewise (comparative more wholewise, superlative most wholewise)

more wholewise (comparative)
most wholewise (superlative)


fullwise

fullwise (comparative more fullwise, superlative most fullwise)

more fullwise (comparative)
most fullwise (superlative)


real-ly

real-ly (comparative more real-ly, superlative most real-ly)

more real-ly (comparative)
most real-ly (superlative)

The suffix is hyphenated to better distinguish the literal-meaning adverb from the intensifier really.

If it did, there would be no distinction between real and unreal, between what is 'real-ly' presented and 'merely imagined,' between the self and the world, and there would be no such thing as thought.

1892, The Philosophical Review, volume I, number 5, page 541:

(nonstandard) Alternative form of really (“in a way or manner that is real, not unreal”)


parawise

(India, law) Of a reply: prepared in paragraphs.


diastatically

diastatically active malt


seldomtimes

1850, Henry Bullinger, H. I. (translator), Reverand Thomas Harding, A.M. (editor), The Decades of Henry Bullinger, Minister of the Church of Zurich.
Mankind in prosperity is all upon lustiness and jollity, and seldomtimes thinketh with himself, from whence prosperity cometh: so he doth not set by those spiritual mysteries and benefits so much as otherwise he ought.

1826-1827, Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities
Alack, — mischance comes seldomtimes alone, / But aye the worried dog must rue more curs than one.


subgenerically

to separate organisms subgenerically


reprehensively

reprehensively (comparative more reprehensively, superlative most reprehensively)

more reprehensively (comparative)
most reprehensively (superlative)


ventroposteriorly

(anatomy) In a ventroposterior manner or direction


unapprehensively

unapprehensively (comparative more unapprehensively, superlative most unapprehensively)

more unapprehensively (comparative)
most unapprehensively (superlative)


seldom or ever

(proscribed) Seldom, if ever; rarely or not at all.


convictively

convictively (comparative more convictively, superlative most convictively)

more convictively (comparative)
most convictively (superlative)


intrabronchially

From intra- + bronchially or intrabronchial + -ly.


self-disgustedly

self-disgustedly (comparative more self-disgustedly, superlative most self-disgustedly)

more self-disgustedly (comparative)
most self-disgustedly (superlative)


self-pityingly

self-pityingly (comparative more self-pityingly, superlative most self-pityingly)

more self-pityingly (comparative)
most self-pityingly (superlative)

In his corner of south London,, in a cramped dump of a house he had sealed up so tight that he and Lawrence could hardly breath, living off state benefits, he was precisely and self-pityingly unhappy.


self-deprecatingly

self-deprecatingly (comparative more self-deprecatingly, superlative most self-deprecatingly)

more self-deprecatingly (comparative)
most self-deprecatingly (superlative)


self-denyingly

self-denyingly (comparative more self-denyingly, superlative most self-denyingly)

more self-denyingly (comparative)
most self-denyingly (superlative)


self-mockingly

self-mockingly (comparative more self-mockingly, superlative most self-mockingly)

more self-mockingly (comparative)
most self-mockingly (superlative)


unstructuredly

unstructuredly (comparative more unstructuredly, superlative most unstructuredly)

more unstructuredly (comparative)
most unstructuredly (superlative)


without batting an eyelash

without batting an eyelash (not comparable)

Many accepted her without batting an eyelash.

2014, Jolie Jaquinta, Red Queen: Book One of the Six Books of Magic, →ISBN:

without batting an eye
without batting an eye#English


without blinking an eyelid

without blinking an eyelid (not comparable)

“About forty dollars between us,” John lied, without blinking an eyelid.

2017, Valerie Pixley, Monkeys in my Garden, →ISBN:

Alternative form of without batting an eye


without batting an eyelid

without batting an eyelid (not comparable)

Amazed though I was that she was au courant, I gave her the answer without batting an eyelid.

2017, Bertil Dunér, Little Counsellor, →ISBN, page 175:


without blinking an eyelash

without blinking an eyelash (not comparable)

“Twenty-four of course,” said Deborah without blinking an eyelash.

2013, David Dicaire, James Ericson, Mr. Fish & Other Fantasy Tales, →ISBN:


without blinking an eye

without blinking an eye (not comparable)

The manager of the store promised to deliver the selected furniture in two hours. After plunking down $11,000 without blinking an eye, Randy escorted Sexy out of the high-end store.

2015, Allison Hobbs, Karen E. Quinones Miller, Hittin' It Out the Park, →ISBN, page 200:

The line in Las Vegas was Denver by three points: Hell, I would have given Seattle two touchdowns without blinking an eye.

2015, Scott Ludwig, 50 Ways to Leave Your 50'S, →ISBN:


without batting an eye

Now here she was dropping almost $5,000 on a single outfit without batting an eye.

2015, Allison Hobbs, Karen E. Quinones Miller, Hittin' It Out the Park, →ISBN, page 111:

(idiomatic) Showing no emotional reaction.


by thunder

"Mr. Pillow, Sir, none of your impertinence, or I will chastise you as well as this fellow." "That's a two handed game, by thunder," said Long Tom, "[…] I dare you to deadly combat. […]"

1849, Masonic Signet and Literary Mirror, volume 1, page 379:

"Have it out with him to-night. Fair and square. Out he goes, Edmund, neck and crop. Out, by thunder."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76:

'Shocking business ... shocking ... miracle none of them died ... never heard the like ... by thunder, it was lucky you were there, Snape ...'

1999, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 283:

Used for emphasis, sometimes with a threatening implication.


aspecifically

From a- + specifically or aspecific + -ally.


unbookishly

unbookishly (comparative more unbookishly, superlative most unbookishly)

more unbookishly (comparative)
most unbookishly (superlative)


veilingly

But with the first gray light of dawn he arose; and before drawing the white sheet veilingly over, he took a last farewell look at that angel face.

1858, John Saunders, Westland Marston, The National Magazine, volume 3, page 133:


atall

...he did banquett hym, so that after diner there was conference of both thair armes togethers in divers poyntes nothing atall discrepaunte.

1576, John Foxe, Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer, Camden Soc.:

What business have you to come here? Go long wid ye — sure I don't want yer atall atall.

1858, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:

...if i had done as i should of done i would not tuched the list atall you had no right to send the list where you did and the journals to me that is where I find fault i could do the dirty work someone else do the other is that using me right if it is then i will give in you had no right to send the journals to me atall...

1891, The Railroad Trainman, The Brotherhood, pages 390–:

(obsolete or Ireland) In any degree; at all.


licketty

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lickety.

Alternative form of lickety, at full speed, fast.


preliminarly

We preliminarly determined that the petitioner, Du Pont, had standing with respect to both filled and unfilled granular PTFE resins, based on the facts that (1) Du Pont filed its petition on behalf of the granular PTFR resin industry;

1988, Federal Register - Volume 53, Issues 127-131, page 25193:

In the remainder of this section, the well-known “s-alignment” and “c-alignment” procedures, in which the motor is preliminarly forced to reach certain known equilibrium points, are theoretically analyzed: they can be used to comply with the conditions of Theorem 16.4.1 and to preliminarly obtain cos(pΘᵣ(t₀)) = 1.

2013, Fouad Giri, AC Electric Motors Control:

We are going to preliminarly transform our problem into a system of two integral equations for the pair (u, q).

2014, A. Lorenzi, S. I. Kabanikhin, Identification Problems of Wave Phenomena: Theory and Numerics:


undisturbingly

undisturbingly (comparative more undisturbingly, superlative most undisturbingly)

more undisturbingly (comparative)
most undisturbingly (superlative)


radiotelemetrically

From radio- + telemetrically or radiotelemetric + -ally.


cytofluorimetrically

From cyto- + fluorimetrically or cytofluorimetric + -ally.


analogly

analogly (comparative more analogly, superlative most analogly)

more analogly (comparative)
most analogly (superlative)

Proxemic behavior is also coded both digitally and analogly.

1975, Weston La Barre, Anthropological perspectives of movement, volume 1, page 1021:

In contrast to analogly working CM ventilators the solenoid valves of a jet respirator are either completely closed or completely open.

1982, Perspectives in High Frequency Ventilation: Proceedings of the international symposium held at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 17–18 September 1982:

Since in any case, the proper efficient causality at issue here lies in the web of analogly coded communication, Dawkins' position would actually presuppose that "formal causality should be seen as primary to efficient causality."

2010, Donald Favareau, editor, Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary:


fructuously

fructuously (comparative more fructuously, superlative most fructuously)

more fructuously (comparative)
most fructuously (superlative)

As our ship came within sight of and skirted the shores of the Persian Gulf, just before entering the Suez Canal at Suez, I impulsively thought of the poppy which is fructuously husbanded here, which are chaliced and flame to red, and the scarlet cups of which are filled with sunshine and bitterness.

1921, Daniel Frederick MacMartin, Thirty Years in Hell: Or, The Confessions of a Drug Fiend, page 96:


percussionally

In terms of, or by means of, percussion.


readiliest

superlative form of readily: most readily


unpaintably

unpaintably (comparative more unpaintably, superlative most unpaintably)

more unpaintably (comparative)
most unpaintably (superlative)

Such that it cannot be painted; beyond the artistic skills of any painter.


noncompositionally

Not compositionally; in a way that is not based on putting other elements together.


movedly

movedly (comparative more movedly, superlative most movedly)

more movedly (comparative)
most movedly (superlative)

In a moved manner; affected emotionally.


stockishly

stockishly (comparative more stockishly, superlative most stockishly)

more stockishly (comparative)
most stockishly (superlative)


plagiotropically

plagiotropically (comparative more plagiotropically, superlative most plagiotropically)

more plagiotropically (comparative)
most plagiotropically (superlative)


lingerly

lingerly (comparative more lingerly, superlative most lingerly)

more lingerly (comparative)
most lingerly (superlative)


scentingly

scentingly (comparative more scentingly, superlative most scentingly)

more scentingly (comparative)
most scentingly (superlative)

And now you are just standing quietly in front of your lifeline map, nice long drink in hand, fine dinner roasting away safely and scentingly in the Aga in the house across the yard, wine uncorked and ready, beds made and aired, […]

2000, James M. Hawes, Dead long enough, page 16:


phagocytically

With respect to phagocytes and phagocytosis.


proteomically

With reference to, or by means of proteomics


retinally

With reference to, or by means of the retina


dislocatedly

dislocatedly (comparative more dislocatedly, superlative most dislocatedly)

more dislocatedly (comparative)
most dislocatedly (superlative)


revertively

revertively (comparative more revertively, superlative most revertively)

more revertively (comparative)
most revertively (superlative)


ignomously

ignomously (comparative more ignomously, superlative most ignomously)

more ignomously (comparative)
most ignomously (superlative)

Medial clipping of ignominiously, equivalent to ignomous + -ly.

I smiled ignomously and said with an embarrassed voice, “I’m sorry, Laura. To be honest, that’s all the French I know. It was meant to impress you.”

2007, Norman Shabel, The Badger Game, page 148:

Adams wrote that “M. and I were ignomously (sic) picked up and dumped on too, as h.m.s. ‘Chaba’ drew too much water to be brought quite up to shore, or even near enough for a long jump.”

2017, Colleen Marie Skidmore, Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography, quoting Molly Adams’s letter to “Dear Ones at Home,” 19-31 December 1908, page 27:

(uncommon, nonstandard) Ignominiously; in a shameful or disgraceful manner.


autolytically

In an autolytic manner; with reference to, or by means of autolysis


sheenest

From Middle English shenest, from Old English sċēnost, sċȳnost, sċēonost, sċīenost, from Proto-Germanic *skaunistaz, superlative of Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“shiny; beautiful”), equivalent to sheen + -est (superlative suffix).


sheener

From Middle English schenre, from Old English sċēnra, sċȳnra, from Proto-Germanic *skaunizô, comparative of Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“shiny; beautiful”), equivalent to sheen + -er.

Now St. Margaret is in Paradise, "where she shineth sevenfold sheener than the sun."

1983, original 1862, William Henry Schofield, English Literature, page 392:


unimpugnably

en-adv

unimpugnably (comparative more unimpugnably, superlative most unimpugnably)

more unimpugnably (comparative)
most unimpugnably (superlative)

Such that it cannot be impugned; beyond reproach or attack.


doucely

doucely (comparative more doucely, superlative most doucely)

more doucely (comparative)
most doucely (superlative)


confiningly

confiningly (comparative more confiningly, superlative most confiningly)

more confiningly (comparative)
most confiningly (superlative)


ventropostaxially

In a ventropostaxial manner or direction


unimitatively

1898, Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, Introduction to The Complete Works of Robert Browning, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Volume 3, p. xix,
This tremendous scene […] is, in some respects of stage action, a counterpart of the awful scene between Lady Macbeth and the Thane of Cawdor after Duncan’s murder. Yet how thoroughly and unimitatively is it reconstructed on opposite lines by the most original English pupil of the great Elizabethan wizard!

1961, Kenneth A. Telford (translator), Aristotle’s Poetics: Translation and Analysis, Chicago: Henry Regnery, Section 25, p. 50,
[…] it is less of a mistake not to know that a female deer has no horns than to paint unimitatively.

In an unimitative manner, not imitating something else.


spleenishly

spleenishly (comparative more spleenishly, superlative most spleenishly)

more spleenishly (comparative)
most spleenishly (superlative)


rejectfully

en-adverb

rejectfully (comparative more rejectfully, superlative most rejectfully)

more rejectfully (comparative)
most rejectfully (superlative)

For answer to complaint herein
Defendant most respectfully
Denies the same, disputes the claim,
And utterly, rejectfully.

1897, The Albany Law Journal: A Monthly Record of the Law and the Lawyers:

[…] — knowing that Fondie would never question any coin that came from her fingers, or put any metal so consecrated to the test of his teeth, or shake his head over it rejectfully, as other people might do — he would gaze at the little treasury of small silver pieces as though they represented the precious particles of Blanche's self.

1916, Edward Charles Booth, Fondie, page 215:

We must recognize the sayings of the saints, observations of the scholars and the customs observed within one's community in case the said things confirm to the standards set forth by Qur'an and Sunnah and likewise we should rejectfully shun them in case they do not.

1995, Muḥammad Ismāʻīl, Taqwiyat-ul-Imān, page 38:


pilferingly

en-adv

pilferingly (comparative more pilferingly, superlative most pilferingly)

more pilferingly (comparative)
most pilferingly (superlative)


horribile dictu

Borrowed from Latin horribile dictu (literally “horrible to say”).

bor+

We first meet the Ericksons in 1973, at the wedding of the family’s eldest child, Anita, a small-town beauty for whom marriage and motherhood ultimately become traps more than prizes; her husband is not just a drinker and a poor father but, horribile dictu, a banker who forecloses on local farms even when those farms are owned by Erickson friends or relations.

2011 May 6, Jonathan Dee, “A Midwestern Family’s Withered Roots”, in The New York Times:


psalmodically

en-adv

psalmodically (comparative more psalmodically, superlative most psalmodically)

more psalmodically (comparative)
most psalmodically (superlative)


sellingly

sellingly (comparative more sellingly, superlative most sellingly)

more sellingly (comparative)
most sellingly (superlative)

"Earnestly yours," "Expectantly yours," "Yours for the fifteenth," "Yours sellingly," and other complimentary closings like these have been used with good results.

1920, John Baker Opdycke, The English of Commerce, page 224:

Windows which display appliances attractively and "sellingly" pay for themselves immediately ; and the best part of their use is that they keep on paying for themselves by earning increased revenue.

1927, American Gas Engineering Journal, volume 125, page 374:

Perhaps a quotation of the opening page will further emphasize our point that the drabbest subject can be handled dramatically, vividly and sellingly, when care is given to the right "keying."

1930, Printing Art, volume 56, page 174:

(dated) So as to sell something; with success in sales.


eudaemonically

eudaemonically (comparative more eudaemonically, superlative most eudaemonically)

more eudaemonically (comparative)
most eudaemonically (superlative)

Will was being propelled across the lobby by an attendant as brawny, fit and eudaemonically sound as Frank Linniman himself.

1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 55:

Happily; in such a way as to lead to happiness.


caudodistally

(anatomy) In a caudodistal manner or direction


caudoventrolaterally

(anatomy) In a caudoventrolateral manner or direction


transculturally

transculturally (comparative more transculturally, superlative most transculturally)

more transculturally (comparative)
most transculturally (superlative)


metabonomically

By means of, or with reference to metabonomics


frightsomely

frightsomely (comparative more frightsomely, superlative most frightsomely)

more frightsomely (comparative)
most frightsomely (superlative)


parsonically

parsonically (comparative more parsonically, superlative most parsonically)

more parsonically (comparative)
most parsonically (superlative)

From parsonic + -ally or parsonical + -ly.


proteogenomically

With regard to, or by means of proteogenomics


overassertively

overassertively (comparative more overassertively, superlative most overassertively)

more overassertively (comparative)
most overassertively (superlative)

Some people are underassertive in almost every kind of social situation, whereas others behave overassertively in social encounters.

2017, Martin Sundel, Sandra S. Sundel, Behavior Change in the Human Services, →ISBN:


underassertively

underassertively (comparative more underassertively, superlative most underassertively)

more underassertively (comparative)
most underassertively (superlative)

Some of the most difficult situations for underassertive people involve requests and compliments: — making a request — refusing a request — giving a compliment — accepting a compliment. People who act underassertively may have difficulty asking others for what they want,

1984, William N. Tindall, Robert S. Beardsley, Frederic R. Curtiss, Communication in pharmacy practice:

Rather, like the medical institutions, and like many American parents around him, he was cautiously — "underassertively," he often says — feeling his way toward alternatives to the old-fashioned techniques.

1996, The New Yorker - Volume 72, page 84:

The assertiveness training sessions involved role-playing in a given situation in three ways, viz., underassertively (passively), overassertively (aggressively), and assertively.

2014, Dr. Jane Akponye, Children of Divorced Parents, →ISBN:


waaay

White-throated Sparrow — heard, not seen; the lovely clear flute-like tones repeated over and over again: Ooooh, see me waaaay, waaay, waaay.

1948, Leon Augustus Hausman, Bird Hiking, page 49:

It is then that you realize you are waaay up there.

1975 Jan, Cycle World Magazine, volume 14, number 2, page 50:

"When de lion whom she gots chosen and wid whom she lives be attacked by anoder," de Greek went on wid his narrative, "de lioness quietly lies waaay down and watches de battle."

2012, Asanti Mori-Palca, Fifty Shades of Green, page 182:


overboisterously

overboisterously (comparative more overboisterously, superlative most overboisterously)

more overboisterously (comparative)
most overboisterously (superlative)

The return bus trip is sometimes a rather depressing experience when a few soldiers imbibed too freely and overboisterously vent their spirits in lusty voices and loosely controlled movements.

2005, David Rothbart, A Soldier's Journal: With the 22nd Infantry Regiment in World War II, →ISBN:

When we were shown into his presence, John of Antwerp was his usual overboisterously hospitable self.

2014, D. K. Wilson, The Traitor's Mark, →ISBN:

He spoke rather overboisterously, as if to cover a real anxiety.

2014, Celia Fremlin, Seven Lean Years, →ISBN:


aortically

With reference to, or by means of an aorta


cadaverically

cadaverically (comparative more cadaverically, superlative most cadaverically)

more cadaverically (comparative)
most cadaverically (superlative)


sanatively

sanatively (comparative more sanatively, superlative most sanatively)

more sanatively (comparative)
most sanatively (superlative)


ancillarily

ancillarily (comparative more ancillarily, superlative most ancillarily)

more ancillarily (comparative)
most ancillarily (superlative)


adluminally

(anatomy) In an adluminal manner or direction


allostatically

With reference to, or by means of allostasis


unresistantly

unresistantly (comparative more unresistantly, superlative most unresistantly)

more unresistantly (comparative)
most unresistantly (superlative)


unpurely

unpurely (comparative more unpurely, superlative most unpurely)

more unpurely (comparative)
most unpurely (superlative)


unexclusively

unexclusively (comparative more unexclusively, superlative most unexclusively)

more unexclusively (comparative)
most unexclusively (superlative)


untrivially

untrivially (comparative more untrivially, superlative most untrivially)

more untrivially (comparative)
most untrivially (superlative)


suppressedly

suppressedly (comparative more suppressedly, superlative most suppressedly)

more suppressedly (comparative)
most suppressedly (superlative)


isothermically

Ferment isothermically at 63 degrees F (17 degrees C) until attenuation has ceased.


retrotranspositionally

With reference to, or by means of retrotransposons


strategetically

From strategetic + -ally or strategetical + -ly.

(now rare) In terms of, or by means of, strategy.


contradictively

contradictively (comparative more contradictively, superlative most contradictively)

more contradictively (comparative)
most contradictively (superlative)


ag'in

The game has slipped us for to-night. We must come ag’in.

1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


prezygotically

From pre- + zygotically or prezygotic + -ally.


Taoistically

Taoistically (comparative more Taoistically, superlative most Taoistically)

more Taoistically (comparative)
most Taoistically (superlative)


slantedly

slantedly (comparative more slantedly, superlative most slantedly)

more slantedly (comparative)
most slantedly (superlative)


slantly

slantly (comparative more slantly, superlative most slantly)

more slantly (comparative)
most slantly (superlative)


poikiloblastically

(geology) By means of, or in the form of, poikiloblasts.


pathobiologically

With reference to, or by means of pathobiology


pharmacogenetically

With reference to, or by means of pharmacogenetics


transportedly

transportedly (comparative more transportedly, superlative most transportedly)

more transportedly (comparative)
most transportedly (superlative)


unbountifully

unbountifully (comparative more unbountifully, superlative most unbountifully)

more unbountifully (comparative)
most unbountifully (superlative)


remediably

remediably (comparative more remediably, superlative most remediably)

more remediably (comparative)
most remediably (superlative)

In a remediable manner; such that it can be remedied.


along the way

Human,
"To hate blindly is as dangerous as to trust blindly." An old angaran proverb, one of many I have forgotten somewhere along the way.

2017, BioWare, quoting Akksul, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: No Subject:

During the course of an ongoing process.


how far

Used literally: what distance. (This entry is a translation hub.)

at what distance) milyen messze/messzire


exposingly

exposingly (comparative more exposingly, superlative most exposingly)

more exposingly (comparative)
most exposingly (superlative)


doatingly

doatingly (comparative more doatingly, superlative most doatingly)

more doatingly (comparative)
most doatingly (superlative)


allophonically

allophonically (comparative more allophonically, superlative most allophonically)

more allophonically (comparative)
most allophonically (superlative)

However, the identification of a significant proportion of the Bengali oral vowel inputs as belonging to an allophonically nasalized vowel suggests that the simplest derivation story is not sufficient.

1995, Juli A. Carter, Early Auditory Comprehension: The Case for Prelexical Morphology and Phonology:


singably

singably (comparative more singably, superlative most singably)

more singably (comparative)
most singably (superlative)

In a singable manner; so that it can be sung.


tabidly

1656 (written), 1690 (published), Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend
He that is tabidly inclined, were unwise to pass his days in Portugal: cholical persons will find little comfort in Austria or Vienna: he that is weak-legged must not be in love with Rome, […]

In a tabid manner; with regard to tabes.


overscrupulously

overscrupulously (comparative more overscrupulously, superlative most overscrupulously)

more overscrupulously (comparative)
most overscrupulously (superlative)


suffusely

suffusely (comparative more suffusely, superlative most suffusely)

more suffusely (comparative)
most suffusely (superlative)


suffusedly

suffusedly (comparative more suffusedly, superlative most suffusedly)

more suffusedly (comparative)
most suffusedly (superlative)


ambagiously

ambagiously (comparative more ambagiously, superlative most ambagiously)

more ambagiously (comparative)
most ambagiously (superlative)


transdisciplinarily

transdisciplinarily (comparative more transdisciplinarily, superlative most transdisciplinarily)

more transdisciplinarily (comparative)
most transdisciplinarily (superlative)

So as to encompass more than one academic discipline.


prosewise

From prose + -wise (suffix meaning ‘in the manner of’).

suffix

Laſt Proſe placed verſewiſe, or verſe placed proſewiſe will loſe their elegance.

1653, Richard Lloyd, “The True Reason of a Right Syntax”, in The Latine Grammar. Or, A Guide Teaching a Compendious VVay to Attaine Exact Skill in the Latine Tongue, for a Proper Congruity and Elegant Variety of Phrases in Prose and Verse. […], London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft, for the author, →OCLC, section 2 (Of Elegance in Some Postures Swarving from the Vulgar), page 180:

All but the qu's omit, and now behold: this ſeems to be put out in the ſo's, to make verſe of what is printed proſewiſe in the qu's.

1770, William Shakespeare, King Lear. A Tragedy. […], London: Printed by W. and J. Richardson; and sold by B[enjamin] White, […], →OCLC, act IV, scene v, page 148, footnote x:

Being the representative of a town upon the sea, he seems to think it desirable that there should be a nautical bluffness in his style; and he ever suggests in his speeches, a paraphrase into politics of one of [Charles] Dibdin's sea-songs delivered prosewise.

1868 February 8, “Members out of Parliament”, in The Illustrated London News, volume LII, number 1468, London: Printed & published by George C. Leighton […], →OCLC, page 143, column 2:

[...] which is an early middle English version of the Latin story, the language being apparently that of the year 1200 or thereabouts, written in metre but given prosewise in the MS. from which Mr. Hardwick printed.

1884, Henry Hucks Gibbs, editor, The Life and Martyrdom of Saint Katherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr: […], London: Nichols and Sons, →OCLC:

The book is put together chronologically, which is as good a way as any to see what was going on, prosewise, from 1930 to 1958 when Louella Parsons, whose syntax Mr. P. recommends for its narcotic value ("You don't even need a prescription") sets him the scene for "Nirvana Small by a Waterfall."

1958 October 12, Eudora Welty, “All is grist for his mill; THE MOST OF S. J. PERELMAN. 650 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $5.95. [book review]”, in The New York Times (section BR), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5; republished as “The Most of S. J. Perelman: S[idney] J[oseph] Perelman”, in Pearl Amelia McHaney, editor, A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviews, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1994, →ISBN, page 124:

Prosewise, I tried to write sentences reminiscent of what I had "heard" (or thought I had heard) in British novels — this sort of elegant, erudite voice.

2006, Adam Sexton, Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats: Lessons from the All-star Writer’s Workshop, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page xv:

In terms of prose, as opposed to poetry.


braveliest

superlative form of bravely: most bravely


bravelier

comparative form of bravely: more bravely


nonconventionally

en-adv

nonconventionally (comparative more nonconventionally, superlative most nonconventionally)

more nonconventionally (comparative)
most nonconventionally (superlative)


hypothermically

In a hypothermic manner; in a condition of hypothermia.


intratesticularly

Guinea pig 2 received intratesticularly 1 cubic centimeter of citrated blood obtained from A.V. 9—D during the first twenty-four hours of dengue fever.

1931, The Philippine Journal of Science - Volume 44, page 198:

The spinal fluid was moderately positive On August 22 an emulsion of an excised inguinal lymph gland, negative on dark-field examination, was injected intratesticularly into three rabbits.

1931, National Institutes of Health Bulletin - Issues 155-160, page 40:

In our preliminary experiments, FSH or LH injected intratesticularly in a dose of 20 ug/testis increased the activity of ornithine decarboxylase within 1 hr after administration.

2012, Kenneth W. McKerns, Structure and Function of the Gonadotropins, →ISBN, page 297:


inderivatively

inderivatively (comparative more inderivatively, superlative most inderivatively)

more inderivatively (comparative)
most inderivatively (superlative)

From in- + derivative + -ly, see also inderivative, derivatively.

If the Creatures are in their several Kinds good, and so pronounced by their Creator, tho' not absolutely and inderivatively, yet relatively, and by appointment, why not to be loved also with an Affection proportionable to this Merit?

1732, The Honourable Lovers: or, the Second and Last Volume of Pylades and Corinna:


mistakedly

Next he assumed, again mistakedly, the capital was limited to $ 35,000.00, overlooking the fact that it had to be increased with the expansion of the business […]

I found that over 600,000 acres, much of it containing valuable stands of timber, as fine stands as could be found within the State of Minnesota, had been patented to the State of Minnesota supposedly or mistakedly under the general swamp-land donation act.

1922, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs, Claims Against Certain Chippewa Bands: Hearing...H.R. 6872, page 5:


fluorospectrometrically

By means of fluorospectrometry or by the use of a fluorospectrometer


psychoneurotically

psychoneurotically (comparative more psychoneurotically, superlative most psychoneurotically)

more psychoneurotically (comparative)
most psychoneurotically (superlative)


symplastically

With reference to, or by means of a symplast


apostatically

apostatically (comparative more apostatically, superlative most apostatically)

more apostatically (comparative)
most apostatically (superlative)


uncontentiously

uncontentiously (comparative more uncontentiously, superlative most uncontentiously)

more uncontentiously (comparative)
most uncontentiously (superlative)


with leaden wings

Lead is a heavy metal, so a wing made of lead would cause slow flying.

(obsolete, poetic) Very slowly in progress or the passage of time.


gossiply

en-adverb

gossiply (comparative more gossiply, superlative most gossiply)

more gossiply (comparative)
most gossiply (superlative)

In a manner befitting a gossip, or in a gossipy manner


transendothelially

In a transendothelial manner or direction


admedially

(anatomy) In an admedial manner or direction


veneficiously

en-adv

veneficiously (comparative more veneficiously, superlative most veneficiously)

more veneficiously (comparative)
most veneficiously (superlative)


abstrusively

abstrusively (comparative more abstrusively, superlative most abstrusively)

more abstrusively (comparative)
most abstrusively (superlative)


tomosynthetically

In terms of, or by means of, tomosynthesis.


biparietally

(anatomy) In a biparietal manner or direction


histogenically

With reference to, or by means of histogenesis


slowlily

slowlily (comparative more slowlily, superlative most slowlily)

more slowlily (comparative)
most slowlily (superlative)


authoritywise

Gina Winthrop: Allen Gregory, I am your teacher and I need you to respect that.
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, I totally will respect that, if you can respect that we are on the same exact level authoritywise.
Gina Winthrop: Okay, that is absolutely not the case.

2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)


postprocedurally

In a postprocedural manner; after a procedure.


shoulder to shoulder

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoulder, to.


self-sacrificingly

self-sacrificingly (comparative more self-sacrificingly, superlative most self-sacrificingly)

more self-sacrificingly (comparative)
most self-sacrificingly (superlative)

Those who consecrate their lives self-sacrificingly to the service of humanity are regarded as the best of men.

1894, Leo Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], “Doctrine of Non-resistance to Evil by Force Must Inevitably be Accepted by Men of the Present Day”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Kingdom of God is within You: or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-conception. […], London: Walter Scott, […], →OCLC, page 199:

Mr. Harrison was smoking on his veranda. His wife had self-sacrificingly told him that he might smoke in the house if he took care to sit by an open window.

1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Wedding at the Stone House”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, pages 357–358:

At this period, too, he liked to insist more strongly than ever on the altruistic, the self-sacrificingly patriotic character of his whole career.

1936, Aldous Huxley, “B. R. Haydon”, in The Olive Tree and Other Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1947:


upshore

Higher up a shore (away from the shoreline)


ectocarpically

With reference to brown algae (of the genus Ectocarpus)


subepidermally

From sub- + epidermally or subepidermal + -ly.


odontologically

In terms of, or by means of, odontology.


microcinematographically

In terms of, or by means of, microcinematography.


aleft

Once more away! and now
The long descent is seen,
A long, long, narrow path.
Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
Aleft the giddy precipice.

1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:


radiatingly

So as to radiate, or spread outward in rays.


thetically

In a thetic or thetical manner; as or like a thesis.


behovefully

behovefully (comparative more behovefully, superlative most behovefully)

more behovefully (comparative)
most behovefully (superlative)


dorsoplantarly

(anatomy) In a dorsoplantar manner or direction


demonstratedly

In a way that has been demonstrated or proven.


proprietously

proprietously (comparative more proprietously, superlative most proprietously)

more proprietously (comparative)
most proprietously (superlative)

Here, framed in neutral gray or fading magenta cardboard, were handsome grinning men and proprietously somber women.

1975, Lois Karen Baldwin, Down on Bugger Run: Family Group and the Social Base of Folklore, page 7:

In a proprietous or proper manner or way; properly.


hale and heartily

hale and heartily (comparative more hale and heartily, superlative most hale and heartily)

more hale and heartily (comparative)
most hale and heartily (superlative)


conflictually

conflictually (comparative more conflictually, superlative most conflictually)

more conflictually (comparative)
most conflictually (superlative)


metapsychologically

In terms of or by means of metapsychology.


elevationally

By means of an elevation; in terms of elevation


extramitochondrially

In an extramitochondrial manner or direction


per vagina

By surface analysis, per + vagina, parallel to constructions such as per mouth, per nostrils, per rectum, per statute, per ordinance, per tradition, and others. Sometimes viewed as a misconstruction of per vaginam, borrowed directly from Latin.

route of administration
route of administration

Through the vagina; by way of the vagina (usually with reference to the vaginal route of administration or vaginal bleeding).


Capernaitically

Capernaitically (comparative more Capernaitically, superlative most Capernaitically)

more Capernaitically (comparative)
most Capernaitically (superlative)

From Capernaitic + -ally or Capernaitical + -ly.


prehensily

prehensily (comparative more prehensily, superlative most prehensily)

more prehensily (comparative)
most prehensily (superlative)


centrically

In a centric manner or direction; centrally


undrinkably

undrinkably (comparative more undrinkably, superlative most undrinkably)

more undrinkably (comparative)
most undrinkably (superlative)

On being opened, the wine was found to be undrinkably sour.


dubitatively

dubitatively (comparative more dubitatively, superlative most dubitatively)

more dubitatively (comparative)
most dubitatively (superlative)


corroboratively

Rather, our purpose is specifically an examination of five aspects or elements of this Traditional culture upon which Guénon and Coomaraswamy commented and upon which academic specialists of medieval culture have written in corroboratively similar or parallel terms, resulting in persuasive support for the proposition advanced when considered in the aggregation.

1997, William W. Quinn, The Only Tradition, page 211:


geothermometrically

In terms of, or by means of, geothermometry.


duskly

duskly (comparative more duskly, superlative most duskly)

more duskly (comparative)
most duskly (superlative)


problematologically

Therefore, the question to which the answer refers (problematologically) differs from the one which it resolves (apocritically).

1986, Michel Meyer, From Logic to Rhetoric, page 119:

In terms of, or by means of, problematology.


biocatalytically

In a biocatalytic manner; by means of a biocatalyst


uncollegially

uncollegially (comparative more uncollegially, superlative most uncollegially)

more uncollegially (comparative)
most uncollegially (superlative)


hierurgically

hierurgically (comparative more hierurgically, superlative most hierurgically)

more hierurgically (comparative)
most hierurgically (superlative)


on the nod

The New Economic Policy (or NEP) in its rudimentary form was approved almost on the nod and the Leninists won the debate on the trade unions without difficulty.

2005, Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography, →ISBN:

It's because it's quite an extraordinary piece of writing, and had it come with a name more celebrated in literary than artistic circles I would have taken it on the nod, and appreciatively so.

2006 October 7, Nicholas Lezard, “In bed with Tracey Emin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

For similar reasons, the Conservative Chief Whip was determined not to allow the Bill to 'go through on the nod' and was prepared if necessary to object on the grounds that the Bill raised important issues.

2012, Roger Davidson, Sexual State, →ISBN, pages 80–81:

Finally, if they decided to award a triumph, the petition was presented to the people of Rome for ratification, which always went through on the nod.

2014, Robin Waterfield, Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece, →ISBN:

(UK, informal) With no discussion or controversy.


kionedon

From Ancient Greek κιονηδόν (kionēdón), from κίων (kíōn, “pillar”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “adverbial suffix”).

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion); in vertical lines from top to bottom.


ectoplasmically

(parapsychology or cytology) In an ectoplasmic manner.


sciagraphically

In terms of, or by means of, sciagraphy.


predisposedly

predisposedly (comparative more predisposedly, superlative most predisposedly)

more predisposedly (comparative)
most predisposedly (superlative)


predisposingly

predisposingly (comparative more predisposingly, superlative most predisposingly)

more predisposingly (comparative)
most predisposingly (superlative)


turgently

turgently (comparative more turgently, superlative most turgently)

more turgently (comparative)
most turgently (superlative)


sombrously

sombrously (comparative more sombrously, superlative most sombrously)

more sombrously (comparative)
most sombrously (superlative)


hitchily

hitchily (comparative more hitchily, superlative most hitchily)

more hitchily (comparative)
most hitchily (superlative)


reprovably

reprovably (comparative more reprovably, superlative most reprovably)

more reprovably (comparative)
most reprovably (superlative)


high speed, low drag

From aviation, where wings and other exterior aircraft parts are designed to minimize drag and thus maximize the craft's potential speed.

(informal) Highly efficiently or competently.


etiopathologically

Cytokines are developmental and homeostatic bioregulators of joint tissues, and are etiopathologically associated with progressive joint destruction.

2012, J.-Y. Reginster, Osteoarthritis: Clinical and Experimental Aspects:


for why

As she tied the boxes, her curiosity could no longer be contained. "Mister," she said, "for why do you need such hats?"

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 62:

(obsolete except non-native speakers' English) For what reason; why.


immunosuppressively

(immunology) By means of immunosuppression


HFN

(fandom slang) Initialism of happy for now.


methodistically

methodistically (comparative more methodistically, superlative most methodistically)

more methodistically (comparative)
most methodistically (superlative)


recollectively

recollectively (comparative more recollectively, superlative most recollectively)

more recollectively (comparative)
most recollectively (superlative)


dorsocranially

(anatomy) In a dorsocranial manner or direction


mediocranially

(anatomy) In a mediocranial manner or direction


derogatively

derogatively (comparative more derogatively, superlative most derogatively)

more derogatively (comparative)
most derogatively (superlative)

In a derogative way or manner: derogatorily.


massly

massly (comparative more massly, superlative most massly)

more massly (comparative)
most massly (superlative)

The adaptive strength was augmented by a fresh, massly proclaimed and practiced value system of "openness and emotional understanding."

1975, Intellect - Volumes 104-105, page 277:

Will society ever be made massly aware that the abortion procedure has been skewed by abortion procedures that do not kill the fetus bet deliver it alive in some measure, not to be saved but to be used for the rest of us?

1993, Suzanne M. Rini, Beyond Abortion: A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation, →ISBN, page 92:

Boarded-out bairns should not be massly congregated in remote, rural areas - because, however grim it sounds, the fact remains that the area takes on an 'in the Trade' aspect.

2000, Isobel Murray, Jessie Kesson: Writing Her Life : a Biography, page 133:


twofoldly

From Middle English twofoldli, twafaldeliche, equivalent to twofold + -ly.


threefoldly

From Middle English threfoldeli, þrefoldely, equivalent to threefold + -ly.


posteroproximally

(anatomy) In a posteroproximal manner or direction


netwise

en-adverb

netwise (comparative more netwise, superlative most netwise)

more netwise (comparative)
most netwise (superlative)

From Middle English nettwyse, nette wise, nette wyse, equivalent to net + -wise.

“They have also other ornaments, which they call cawles, made netwise, to the end, as I think, that the cloth of gold, cloth of silver, or else tinsel (for that is the worst), wherewith their heads are covered and attired withal […]”

1859, John Milton, Thomas Keightley, Poems, volume 1, page 126:

Nature, as Bacon pithily says, joins her work rather 'netwise than chainwise.'

1883, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science:

From Observation 2.2.1, it is evident that a placement has optimal HPWL if all its nonlocal nets can be partitioned into netwise-disjoint monotone chains with fixed endpoints. […] Starting from the placement of the real benchmark, sets of nets are identified that can be grouped together into netwise-disjoint monotone chains between well-separated fixed terminals.

2007, Gi-Joon Nam, Jingsheng Jason Cong, Modern Circuit Placement, page 16:

(rare) In the manner or configuration of a net


proximoposteriorly

In a proximoposterior manner or direction


legiterally

en-adv

legiterally (comparative more legiterally, superlative most legiterally)

more legiterally (comparative)
most legiterally (superlative)

/ləˈd͡ʒɪtəɹəli/

At a friend’s encouragement, I recently tried, and am now legiterally hooked on, infrared Baptiste Yoga.

2017 November 6, Carly Terwilliger, “How Do You Crush Winter Doldrums?”, in SGB Media, archived from the original on 2018-09-22:

“She legiterally has millions of subscribers! She's famous!”

2020, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water:

(degree, informal, humorous) An intensifier. Used similarly to literally (sense 2).


decompositionally

In terms of, or by means of, decomposition.


way back

As friends, we go way back: we met in primary school.


wayback

I wailed & wailed In coffee shops wayback when Especially on lucrative weekends

1998 Winter, Ted Joans, “I, Too, at the Beginning”, in Discourse, volume 20, number 1, page 94:

Wayback, prime suspects in the knife-back night Shimmied the tower out on butch-house pike.

2011, I.B. Wingfield, Sunday in the Body of the Garden of Tyme, →ISBN, page 277:

I'ld^([sic]) be living in a great big palace And drinking my wine from an emerald studed^([sic]) chalice I'ld wear a crown made of silver and gold like it was wayback in time of old

2013, Kennard Gregg, Black Rose, →ISBN, page 28:

(poetic, nonstandard) Alternative form of way back


dormantly

The unfinished argument which had been smouldering dormantly like some quiescent volcano since Lockyer's day — suddenly boiled over in print. Hawkins' article in Nature kindled response from all quarters.

2013, Peter Lancaster Brown, Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology, page 111:


suppositively

suppositively (comparative more suppositively, superlative most suppositively)

more suppositively (comparative)
most suppositively (superlative)


isostoichiometrically

(chemistry) In an isostoichiometric manner


fit to kill

fit to kill (comparative more fit to kill, superlative most fit to kill)

more fit to kill (comparative)
most fit to kill (superlative)

Well, during the strike Clarence Drum comes pee-rading up to our table, all dolled up fit to kill in his nice lil cap'n's uniform, and somebody says to him, 'Busting the strike, Clarence?'

And, here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a rag-tail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save the mark, were waving the proud and honored flag of the Southern States in the last war fought by gentlemen.

2010, Sandra A. Jones, The Silent Scream, →ISBN, page 35:

He began to chuckle and, moments later, both of them were laughing fit to kill.

2014, Jane Toombs, Wild Mustangv, →ISBN:

There are unbelievable sights. People watch, on television, as ordinary citizens speak up to question ministers and Party bigwigs, while in Moscow, big brother is now frowning fit to kill.

2009, Jean Echenoz, Running: A Novel, →ISBN, page 114:

Then this Flannagan, when he knows that he can't get what he wants off Hamish neither, he walks off, yelling fit to kill, and gets in beside the girl and drives off, straight down Main Street all the way,

He stormed down the path, practically kicking the front gate off its hinges only to see his bus coming, started running desperately and almost got to the stop, desperate fingers outstretched, but the doors slammed shut in his face and the bloody thing drove off leaving him holding onto a lamppost to support himself, gasping, desperate for breath and fit to be tied, the poor bugger watched the bus disappear down the road through a red mist, seething fit to kill.

2014, Jim Ore, The Planet of the Publishers, →ISBN, page 65:

In a manner full of anger or malevolence.


overvigorously

overvigorously (comparative more overvigorously, superlative most overvigorously)

more overvigorously (comparative)
most overvigorously (superlative)


retractively

retractively (comparative more retractively, superlative most retractively)

more retractively (comparative)
most retractively (superlative)


any time soon

The train will not be arriving any time soon.

Southgate's first choice defenders have not proved reliable against international opposition of the highest quality - and produced no evidence here to suggest they will do so any time soon.

2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport: