up-stairs

up-stairs (comparative further up-stairs, superlative furthest up-stairs)

further up-stairs (comparative)
furthest up-stairs (superlative)

In another moment the locksmith was standing in the street, whence he could see that the light once more travelled up-stairs, and soon returning to the room below, shone brightly through the chinks in the shutters.

1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 42.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 180:

So Mrs. Sturk led the way up-stairs, whispering as she ascended; […]

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visiter, and Makes a Call”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 78:

“Well, we must find out Mr. Frank’s address to-morrow, and you must write and tell him all about it,” said his wife, and taking up the jug of milk she had come to fetch, she went up-stairs. But the next minute she came flying down again. “John, run for the doctor directly,” she said; “that poor thing is dying, I do believe. Go up and call Molly,” she said as she went up-stairs again.

[1872], [Emma Boultwood], “At Fernfield Hall”, in Maggie’s Message, London: The Religious Tract Society; […], page 55:

Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose,—there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead,—came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 2:


up stairs

en-adv

up stairs (comparative further up stairs, superlative furthest up stairs)

further up stairs (comparative)
furthest up stairs (superlative)

I ſtept up ſtairs into my own bed-chamber, with no other thought than of pulling off my hat, &c.

1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 176:

There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; […]

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:

“He’s in the dining-room, sir, along with mistress. I’ll show you up stairs, if you please.”

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 161:

Perhaps ’twas the state in which the poor lady lay up stairs that helped to make them excited and frightened.

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How Charles Nutter’s Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-box Were All Set Out for Him in the Small Parlour at the Mills; and How That Night Was Passed in the House by the Church-yard”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 137:


acidically

acidically (comparative more acidically, superlative most acidically)

more acidically (comparative)
most acidically (superlative)


curvaciously

curvaciously (comparative more curvaciously, superlative most curvaciously)

more curvaciously (comparative)
most curvaciously (superlative)


impercipiently

impercipiently (comparative more impercipiently, superlative most impercipiently)

more impercipiently (comparative)
most impercipiently (superlative)

In an impercipient manner; lacking perception.


lopingly

lopingly (comparative more lopingly, superlative most lopingly)

more lopingly (comparative)
most lopingly (superlative)

With a loping motion; with long, easy strides.


𐑩𐑚𐑪𐑥𐑦𐑯𐑩𐑚𐑤𐑦

head

𐑩𐑚𐑪𐑥𐑦𐑯𐑩𐑚𐑤𐑦 (abɒmɪnəbli)


𐑤𐑱𐑑𐑼

𐑤𐑱𐑑𐑼 (le͜ɪtə͜r)


unconformingly

en-adv

unconformingly (comparative more unconformingly, superlative most unconformingly)

more unconformingly (comparative)
most unconformingly (superlative)

Without conforming; in a nonconformist manner.


pedophilically

pedophilically (comparative more pedophilically, superlative most pedophilically)

more pedophilically (comparative)
most pedophilically (superlative)


minatorially

minatorially (comparative more minatorially, superlative most minatorially)

more minatorially (comparative)
most minatorially (superlative)


requestingly

en-adverb

requestingly (comparative more requestingly, superlative most requestingly)

more requestingly (comparative)
most requestingly (superlative)


woman and girl

I’ve lived here forty years, woman and girl.

(British) During one's womanhood and girlhood; since one's childhood; all one's life.


teethily

en-adv

teethily (comparative more teethily, superlative most teethily)

more teethily (comparative)
most teethily (superlative)


sensu strictissimo

1985 Mark E. Villiger: Customary international law and treaties. →ISBN
This narrow view of codification sensu strictissimo requires further consideration, since it is perhaps the chief reason why codification, and its delimitation from development, have been discarded as pointless efforts. Thus, we should bear in mind that customary law is, by nature, often general, vague and imprecise. It would therefore prove difficult and undesirable to establish exact written replicas of the customary rule. Professor Jennings has argued that "the very fact of changing the law from an unwritten source to a written source is in itself inevitably a major change."

(sciences or legal) superlative or intensive form of sensu stricto: in the strictest possible sense.


scaleably

scaleably (comparative more scaleably, superlative most scaleably)

more scaleably (comparative)
most scaleably (superlative)


uncontemptuously

uncontemptuously (comparative more uncontemptuously, superlative most uncontemptuously)

more uncontemptuously (comparative)
most uncontemptuously (superlative)

In an uncontemptuous manner; without showing contempt.


dyspraxically

dyspraxically (comparative more dyspraxically, superlative most dyspraxically)

more dyspraxically (comparative)
most dyspraxically (superlative)


ripsnortingly

ripsnortingly (comparative more ripsnortingly, superlative most ripsnortingly)

more ripsnortingly (comparative)
most ripsnortingly (superlative)

a ripsnortingly zany novel

(slang) In a ripsnorting manner; excellently or intensely.


one time

Her eyes would suddenly become fixed on the other side of the room, and for a moment or two she would seem bewildered and absent. One time I was watching her in this state, when her husband took me by the arm and said, 'Come away, Tom.'

1843, George Payne Rainsford James, The Commissioner: Or, De Lunatico Inquirendo, page 186:

One time we cotch four hunderd and fifty thousand at one haul.

1855, John Lewis, New Hope: Or, The Rescue. A Tale of the Great Kanawha, page 167:

One time I untied the boat as we were leaving, started to yell Lines off, deckhand on […].

2008, Benjamin Drevlow, Bend with the Knees: And Other Love Advice from My Father, page 14:

One time he hadn't held onto himself—the time he worked for the Sedona cattle people up on Oak Creek—and it was the reason he was here.

2009, Elmore Leonard, Forty Lashes Less One, page 24:

So, one time, he didn't come back, and didn't come back, and his dinner got cold. When he did come back eventually, he brought a tray of cakes for our girls. Know what I did?” / I shook my head. / “I took the tray from him and threw it all over the garden for the goats and chickens. I was so mad.

2020, Christine Trueman, See You Again, One Time in Saint Helena:

(informal) Used to introduce a narrative concerning a past event


symmetrologically

symmetrologically (comparative more symmetrologically, superlative most symmetrologically)

more symmetrologically (comparative)
most symmetrologically (superlative)

The succession of parallel surfaces with magnesite — mica — hematite was, therefore, transofrmed by two superimposed and symmetrologically at least partly distinguishable axial deformations: the systems of syndiagenetic, locally "external sedimentary" folds, probably in a void, and those of tectonically caused folds.

1977, D. D. Klemm, H.J. Schneider, editors, Time- And Strata-Bound Ore Deposits, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 268:

In a symmetrological manner; relating to or involving symmetry.


all jokes aside

all kidding aside
all kidding aside#English


aerobatically

aerobatically (comparative more aerobatically, superlative most aerobatically)

more aerobatically (comparative)
most aerobatically (superlative)


strangledly

strangledly (comparative more strangledly, superlative most strangledly)

more strangledly (comparative)
most strangledly (superlative)

Hammond was coughing strangledly, and wiping a bloody fleck from his cheek, where one of the fragments of the pen barrel had nicked him.

1945, Cornell Woolrich, “The Fountain Pen”, in Frank Owen, editor, Fireside Mystery Book, New York, N.Y.: Lantern Press, Inc., published 1947, page 294:

He broke off strangledly and got down on his knees, holding his left arm gingerly with his right, and vomited.

1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 608:

His words came strangledly, incoherent with violent passion.

1959, Alan Hunter, Gently in the Sun (the Inspector George Gently series), London: Robinson, published 2011, →ISBN, page 103:


insunder

insunder (comparative more insunder, superlative most insunder)

more insunder (comparative)
most insunder (superlative)

And herein also her forebeam to which her bowsprit was fastened, cracked clean insunder; and some of her timbers likeways in the hold we found defective.

1634 July 13, Thomas Young, Letter of Captain Thomas Young to Sir Toby Matthew:

For as in a watch, or some such small engine, the matter, figure and motion of the wheels cannot be well known, except it be taken insunder and viewed in its parts; so as to make a more curious search into the rights of states and duties of subjects, it is necessary, I say, not to take them insunder, but yet that they be so cosidered as if they were dissolved;

Secondly. Spiders thus hanging, when they have shot out such a thread as we mention'd, seem to have power at their pleasure to snap insunder the thread they hang by, and sail away with the other.

2015, Anna Marie Roos, The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712)., page 304:


stabbily

stabbily (comparative more stabbily, superlative most stabbily)

more stabbily (comparative)
most stabbily (superlative)


head over ears

Synonym of head over heels (“madly or deeply, usually in love”)


this second

Synonym of this minute (“right now, immediately”)


aforetymes

When he had saied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]

1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:


up hill and down dell

up hill and down dale
up hill and down dale#English

Alternative form of up hill and down dale


on film

Appearing in the form of a movie or video.


panspermically

(rare) In a panspermic manner or fashion.


antediluvianly

antediluvianly (comparative more antediluvianly, superlative most antediluvianly)

more antediluvianly (comparative)
most antediluvianly (superlative)


folk-etymologically

(uncommon) In a way or manner of folk etymology.


clearsome

en-adverb

clearsome (comparative more clearsome, superlative most clearsome)

more clearsome (comparative)
most clearsome (superlative)


untimelily

en-adv

untimelily (comparative more untimelily, superlative most untimelily)

more untimelily (comparative)
most untimelily (superlative)


marriedly

[T]he fact that neither Charlotte Vale nor Jane Hudson is portrayed as living happily (marriedly) ever after is not odd (given the genre).

2012, Naomi Braun Rosenthal, Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities, page 136:


maybeso

Maybeso the old man bad not died of his terrible wounds; maybeso prowling Injuns had killed him—or white-fanged wolves.

2013, Stanley Vestal, Jim Bridger - Mountain Man:


scarletly

scarletly (comparative more scarletly, superlative most scarletly)

more scarletly (comparative)
most scarletly (superlative)

In a scarlet manner; with scarlet color.


fliply

fliply (comparative more fliply, superlative most fliply)

more fliply (comparative)
most fliply (superlative)


incusely

an image incusely inscribed on a coin


straplessly

Only a spreading tree, with nine yokels in assorted costumes telling cheeky little boys to get out of the light; with two or three pads lying rather straplessly about; and with one good bat, and one bad one, and an old, despised batting-glove.

1946 July, [Herbert Farjeon], Herbert Farjeon’s Cricket Bag, London: Macdonald & Co., page 34:

Without a strap or straps; in a strapless manner.


reverse ways

"Now, Lady Betty, place yourself on your daughter reverse ways, your head between her thighs, her head between your legs. Lie on her, and when we have arranged you properly, we'll tie you down!"


errday

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(US, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of every day.


cross-culturally

Leubrie ignores the extraordinary diversity of religions, collapsing everything from tribal "storytellers" and "polytheistic Norsemen" to the Rev. Moon into a single, simplistic whole, thereby promoting a superficial and ahistorical understanding of religion cross-culturally and over the millennia.

1986 April 5, Jeanne Bergman, Jackie Urla, “Needed: A Better Critique of Religion”, in Gay Community News, page 5:


unmasterably

unmasterably (comparative more unmasterably, superlative most unmasterably)

more unmasterably (comparative)
most unmasterably (superlative)

an almost unmasterably difficult piano composition

Such that it cannot be mastered or perfected.

His temper rose up unmasterably.

Such that it cannot be mastered, controlled, or governed.


meteoritically

meteoritically derived material

By means of, or in terms of, meteoritics or meteorites.


exergonically

exergonically (comparative more exergonically, superlative most exergonically)

more exergonically (comparative)
most exergonically (superlative)


inhærently

inhærently (comparative more inhærently, superlative most inhærently)

more inhærently (comparative)
most inhærently (superlative)


midshave

Rumors abound of a ghost who haunts the third dining room, which purportedly was once a barber shop where a local mobster was cut down midshave.

1998, Rebecca Poole Forée, Northern California Best Places: Restaurants, Lodgings, and Touring, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 109:

“What did he say? The barber.” / “Not a word. He stopped midshave, straight-blade razor in his hand, and he went to his cabinet and got them for me.[…]”

2004, Peter Robinson, “Going Back”, in The Price of Love and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, published 2010, →ISBN, page 44:

There was just one slight wrinkle: The best-known justice of the peace was also the town barber. That meant that barbershop customers were often pressed into service as witnesses to a short-notice marriage ceremony, sometimes standing up for a couple midshave.

2004, Harriet Baskas, Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 205:

“Okay,” I say, “I guess we can put it on the credit card, but I can’t take it in tomorrow morning because I have a banana job.” / This stops him midshave.

2008, Beth Lisick, Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 24:

And then at 1:00 a.m., as if a switch had been flipped, the night turned to a sea of flame. Addison stood midshave, transfixed by the sight.

2017, Theo Emery, Hellfire Boys: The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World’s Deadliest Weapons, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 325:

I needed to quickly establish what kind of character the gunman was. To do so, I came up with a scene in a barbershop, where an enemy attacks the main character midshave.

2017, Hirohiko Araki [pseudonym; Toshiyuki Araki], translated by Nathan A. Collins, Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga, San Francisco, Calif.: Viz Media, →ISBN, page 32:

Dom Denario caught Cotton’s eye in the reflection of the pocket-sized mirror that hung on the cinderblock wall. A pit-stained, stretched-out undershirt struggled to contain his fat belly (only doing so with the help of black suspenders), while globs of shaving cream adhered to his face like melted marshmallows. He stopped what he was doing, midshave.

2017, Todd Gilmour, Karyn Rae, The 51st State: State of Affairs, [Okatie, S.C.]: Karyn Rae Publishing, →ISBN, pages 159–160:

THE TENTATIVE KNOCK on his door made Gabe pause, midshave.

2017, T.J. Kline, chapter 17, in The Radcliffes, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:


changingly

changingly (comparative more changingly, superlative most changingly)

more changingly (comparative)
most changingly (superlative)

Early-on the 1980s show signs of becoming a changingly complex decade. No single discipline appears sufficient to cope with the foreseen complexity.

2011, Donald F. Mulvihill, Marketing and the Future (page 54)


alteringly

alteringly (comparative more alteringly, superlative most alteringly)

more alteringly (comparative)
most alteringly (superlative)

What may be life-alteringly significant to one person may be impossibly incoherent or banal to another because the two are at different phases in their lives.

1996, Barbara Powell, Windows Into the Infinite: A Guide to the Hindu Scriptures, page 182:

There is no more purposeful, insistent and mind-alteringly beautiful thing than this heavenly signature.

(in combination) So as to alter or change something.


odee

Possibly a shortened form of overdose (compare OD (“overdose”)) or overdoing.

I'm odee excited for the party tonight!!!

I JUST SAW JUSTIN BIEBER AND HIS FIANCÉ AT THE GROCERY STORE IN WILLIAMSBURG!!! I AM FAN GIRLING ODEE RIGHT NOW

2018 July 26, @_celz, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:

this fit was odee horrible

2018 December 4, @0893Chino, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:

This is soooo disturbing. He's trolling you odee.

2020 September 14, @issatrae, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:


into the wide blue yonder

into the wide blue yonder (comparative more into the wide blue yonder, superlative most into the wide blue yonder)

more into the wide blue yonder (comparative)
most into the wide blue yonder (superlative)

(colloquial) A faraway place which is unknown and mysterious


spookishly

spookishly (comparative more spookishly, superlative most spookishly)

more spookishly (comparative)
most spookishly (superlative)


unfeverishly

unfeverishly (comparative more unfeverishly, superlative most unfeverishly)

more unfeverishly (comparative)
most unfeverishly (superlative)


schismogenically

schismogenically (comparative more schismogenically, superlative most schismogenically)

more schismogenically (comparative)
most schismogenically (superlative)


thereafters

Alternative form of thereafter (“after that; from then on”).


coll'ottava

From Italian [Term?] (literally “with the octave”).

bor

(music) Having the notes played in two adjacent octaves simultaneously.


pinkily

en-adv

pinkily (comparative more pinkily, superlative most pinkily)

more pinkily (comparative)
most pinkily (superlative)


hourelie

I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Deſpaire by Phyſick, good counſell, comforts, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6, page 707:


shrillly

Again she laughed, long and shrillly.

1927, Lowry Charles Wimberly, Prairie Schooner, page 255:

Alternative spelling of shrilly (“in a shrill manner”)


oreddy

Pronunciation spelling of already, representing Singapore English.


holozoically

holozoically (comparative more holozoically, superlative most holozoically)

more holozoically (comparative)
most holozoically (superlative)


multipliciously

multipliciously (comparative more multipliciously, superlative most multipliciously)

more multipliciously (comparative)
most multipliciously (superlative)


photomorphogenetically

In terms of, or by means of, photomorphogenesis.


side on

The car ploughed into a bridge side on.

With what is usually the side facing forward.


sure as death and taxes

sure as death and taxes (not comparable)


sans souci

Borrowed from French sans souci (“without worry”).


inequably

en-adv

inequably (comparative more inequably, superlative most inequably)

more inequably (comparative)
most inequably (superlative)


unequably

unequably (comparative more unequably, superlative most unequably)

more unequably (comparative)
most unequably (superlative)


spritefully

spritefully (comparative more spritefully, superlative most spritefully)

more spritefully (comparative)
most spritefully (superlative)


of the clock

/ʌvˈðəˌklɒk/

/ʌvˈðəˌklɑk/


unperspicaciously

unperspicaciously (comparative more unperspicaciously, superlative most unperspicaciously)

more unperspicaciously (comparative)
most unperspicaciously (superlative)


discomfortably

discomfortably (comparative more discomfortably, superlative most discomfortably)

more discomfortably (comparative)
most discomfortably (superlative)


disenchantedly

disenchantedly (comparative more disenchantedly, superlative most disenchantedly)

more disenchantedly (comparative)
most disenchantedly (superlative)


dislikably

dislikably (comparative more dislikably, superlative most dislikably)

more dislikably (comparative)
most dislikably (superlative)

[…] its heroine seems dislikably priggish to many; […]

2013, Elizabeth Sabiston, Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot, page 14:


unprosaically

unprosaically (comparative more unprosaically, superlative most unprosaically)

more unprosaically (comparative)
most unprosaically (superlative)


proprietarially

proprietarially (comparative more proprietarially, superlative most proprietarially)

more proprietarially (comparative)
most proprietarially (superlative)


handwringingly

handwringingly (comparative more handwringingly, superlative most handwringingly)

more handwringingly (comparative)
most handwringingly (superlative)

J. M. Ludlow, a contemporary of Dickens, is handwringingly anxious about the possibility of good society's de-evolution in the face of a working-class “flood”: […]

2010, Lara Baker Whelan, Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era, Routledge, →ISBN:


hand-wringingly

hand-wringingly (comparative more hand-wringingly, superlative most hand-wringingly)

more hand-wringingly (comparative)
most hand-wringingly (superlative)

They were sure that most British people agreed, and that the judiciary, media, campaigners and elected politicians who protested were a hand-wringingly liberal, too-fastidious minority.

2011, Andrew Marr, A History of 20th Century Britain, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

Standard-issue liberal guilt and hand-wringingly uninteresting dilemmas are the order of the day, with no real surprises or challenges.

2016 January 7, Peter Bradshaw, “A War review – standard issue Afghan war drama”, in the Guardian, →ISSN:


videographically

By means of, or in terms of, videographics.


yearwise

en-adverb

yearwise (comparative more yearwise, superlative most yearwise)

more yearwise (comparative)
most yearwise (superlative)


trampily

en-adv

trampily (comparative more trampily, superlative most trampily)

more trampily (comparative)
most trampily (superlative)


self-acknowledgedly

Kim Fowley (a self-acknowledgedly bizarre and cultish personality who frequently pops up in accounts of '60s rock and roll) was then Chattahoochee's in-house producer.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 174:


throatward

throatward (comparative more throatward, superlative most throatward)

more throatward (comparative)
most throatward (superlative)


toothward

toothward (comparative more toothward, superlative most toothward)

more toothward (comparative)
most toothward (superlative)

We have observed the ancients’ misapplication and abuse of a panoply of caustic and corrosive materials turned toothward. Thankfully, arsenic, strong acids, and the like have long ago been removed from the dentist’s formulary.

1998, The excruciating history of dentistry / toothsome tales & oral oddities from Babylon to braces, page 173:


quick as lightning

In allusion to the rapidity of flashes of lightning.


transubstantially

In terms of, or by means of, transubstantiation.


n'ly

There is sett on the Board a high heap of Soule-cakes lyeing one upon another like the picture of the Sew-Bread in the old Bibles. They are about the bignesse of 2ᵈ cakes, and n'ly all the visitants that day take one.

1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 23:


gateward

(Scotland, obsolete) Straight, or directly; in the way towards.


metasubjectively

metasubjectively (comparative more metasubjectively, superlative most metasubjectively)

more metasubjectively (comparative)
most metasubjectively (superlative)


lineatim

The two editions of 1576 resemble each other paginatim but not always lineatim […]

1965, Colin Clair, A History of Printing in Britain, page 97:


propa

propa (comparative more propa, superlative most propa)

more propa (comparative)
most propa (superlative)

(Geordie, colloquial) Alternative form of proper.


bewitchedly

bewitchedly (comparative more bewitchedly, superlative most bewitchedly)

more bewitchedly (comparative)
most bewitchedly (superlative)


acrally

acrally (comparative more acrally, superlative most acrally)

more acrally (comparative)
most acrally (superlative)


prehaps

(dialect, nonstandard) Alternative form of perhaps


one way or other

one way or another
one way or another#English


unnuancedly

unnuancedly (comparative more unnuancedly, superlative most unnuancedly)

more unnuancedly (comparative)
most unnuancedly (superlative)


micronationally

micronationally (comparative more micronationally, superlative most micronationally)

more micronationally (comparative)
most micronationally (superlative)

Falkenberg's policy is that it could care less if its sovereignty and independence is recognized by any one, Maco-^([sic]) [Macro] or Micronationally. It exists!

1999 May 16, HM King Friedrich Albrecht I - Comity, “A plea for ruthlessness”, in alt.politics.micronations (Usenet):

Well, December was a quiet month, micronationally speaking, focused mostly on family activities - as should be the case during the holidays!

2007 January 4, Kevin Baugh, “A Few Words From The President”, in The Mustang, volume 5, number 1, Republic of Molossia, page 1:

This is the most important decision i have made micronationally. I have officially decided that i will be leaving Sartontia. Mohamed will continue it but he doesn't have a wish to continue on twitter.


macronationally

macronationally (comparative more macronationally, superlative most macronationally)

more macronationally (comparative)
most macronationally (superlative)

The Credit is also macronationally pegged to the Australian Dollar at a rate 1Cr is equal to $1AU.

2016 November 12, Itsannarchy, MicroWiki:

Happy Winter Solstice! Although today is not usually celebrated macronationally, a number of micronations have public holidays on the solstices, including Adammia and Uskor.

2021 December 21, EmpireOfAdammia, Twitter:

The Hausgurd Union of the Crowns (H.U.C) is a nation project or micronation located macronationally in the UK.


pappily

pappily (comparative more pappily, superlative most pappily)

more pappily (comparative)
most pappily (superlative)


slantily

slantily (comparative more slantily, superlative most slantily)

more slantily (comparative)
most slantily (superlative)


guilty-like

guilty-like (comparative more guilty-like, superlative most guilty-like)

more guilty-like (comparative)
most guilty-like (superlative)

Once or twice I fancied that I observed a look of still stranger, still wilder expression, when the black ring forms around the eye— when the muscles twitch and quiver along gaunt, famished jaws — when men gaze guilty-like at each other.

1871, Mayne Reid, The hunters' feast; or, Conversations around the camp-fire:

He's slowly shifting away from me, guilty-like.

I looked at these blokes we'd just been punching on with and one of them was backing away, guilty-like, so I grabbed him and twisted his arm up his back until it snapped.

2016, Caesar Campbell, The Outlaw and the Hitman:


quick as thought

Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds, rattled up hand over hand, and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the cross-trees.

1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:


as far as I am concerned

as far as I'm concerned
as far as I'm concerned#English

Alternative form of as far as I'm concerned


stride-legs

Alongside lay one of the gigs, Silver in the stern-sheets — him I could always recognize — while a couple of men were leaning over the stern bulwarks, one of them with a red cap — the very rogue that I had seen some hours before stride-legs upon the palisade.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

The two made the best of it by taking opposite ends of the house and sitting stride-legs over the roof, with their backs to the chimneys.

1888, Thomas Mason, Adam Dickson; or, Sae sweet, sae bonnilie, page 182:


t.i.d.

t.i.d. (comparative more t.i.d., superlative most t.i.d.)

more t.i.d. (comparative)
most t.i.d. (superlative)

(medicine, pharmacology) Three times a day


b.i.d.

b.i.d. (comparative more b.i.d., superlative most b.i.d.)

more b.i.d. (comparative)
most b.i.d. (superlative)


metatheatrically

metatheatrically (comparative more metatheatrically, superlative most metatheatrically)

more metatheatrically (comparative)
most metatheatrically (superlative)


autoreflexively

autoreflexively (comparative more autoreflexively, superlative most autoreflexively)

more autoreflexively (comparative)
most autoreflexively (superlative)


AFAYK

(informal, Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of as far as you know.


self-indulgently

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

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


missionally

missionally (comparative more missionally, superlative most missionally)

more missionally (comparative)
most missionally (superlative)


missionarily

missionarily (comparative more missionarily, superlative most missionarily)

more missionarily (comparative)
most missionarily (superlative)


trickingly

trickingly (comparative more trickingly, superlative most trickingly)

more trickingly (comparative)
most trickingly (superlative)


frfr

The exchange continued, with Markus replying “people would stop using the same jokes if you brush your hair . . . bruh . . . I’m a wave master . . . I can help you out . . . FRFR.”

2015, Corey Jay Liberman, Michael Plugh, Brian Geltzeiler, “Fandom Communication in a Mediated Age: The Use of Twitter and Blogs for Dissent Practices among National Basketball Association Fans”, in Alison F. Slade, Amber J. Narro, Dedria Givens-Carroll, editors, Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, →ISBN, pages 73–74:

Summer: I’m gonna shave tonight. / He texted back damn near immediately. / Harlem: Shiddd, you better!!! A nigga still coughing up hair balls and shit. I guess the cat got my tongue frfr.

2017, Sol, The Plug Next Door 6, Leo Sullivan Presents, →ISBN:

So, Satan wasn’t even the one that brought Job up in the conversation. I was like, FRFR God? (for those who do not know FRFR means for real for real)

2020, Tana White, Mom-Dad-WTF: Managing Our Mind; Divinely Assigned Disappointments; Walk The Faith, Xlibris, →ISBN:

Little Do you know, you gave me game. Taught me stuff, and I’m looking at you like how this lil dude know all this lmao… You def had the total package cuz. FRFR!! You changed me so much for the better lil bro.

2020, Zavion Sellers (booklet), QDR Design:

When the ma picked me up at LAX in her Prius. / Man. / Soon as I exited those auto doors outta bag-claim. / Man! / That Pac Ocean air! / Nothin like it. Straight up. Frfr.

2022, Sean Thor Conroe, “Lil Bro”, in Fuccboi, Little, Brown and Company, published 2023, →ISBN:

My boi, are you BIG mad, frfr? I was clowning with you, but I see where you at wit’ it. FOH. See me tonight then.

2023, Aries Skye, Love on the Ninth Floor, Dallas, Tex.: Black Odyssey Media, →ISBN:

My MF kids ‘R’ the MF goat! Demon spawns FRFR! […] Keep shining, and yaw judgemental ass bitches can lay TF off my sis FRFR. […] U can only change u n2 a better, a greater, and a wiser you! Level up with God! WTF are yaw doing? Like FRFR? / Yaw leveling up with materialistic shit rather than God!

2023, Michailah Belle, Vision of Inspiration, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., →ISBN, pages 3, 16, and 21:

(slang) Reduplication of fr (“for real”).


frontly

frontly (comparative more frontly, superlative most frontly)

more frontly (comparative)
most frontly (superlative)

Dad put Eleanor in the center as the cameras focused frontly on her and the audience saw him from the back as he interviewed her.

2003, Julie Sinatra, Under My Skin: My Father, Frank Sinatra: The Man Behind the Mystique, Lincoln, N.E.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 197:

"We are not the only polluter on this planet, and we have taken the subject frontly, directly and massively," he told New Scientist. He said her message will lead to a world where people will be unable to connect.

2019 December 31, Adam Vaughan, quoting Alexandre de Juniac, “Aviation chief criticises Greta Thunberg and 'flight-shaming' movement”, in New Scientist, London: New Scientist Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-03:

Towards or through the front of something; directly.


dailily

dailily (comparative more dailily, superlative most dailily)

more dailily (comparative)
most dailily (superlative)

But you talk of the ſubſerviency of a popular audience to every fallacy of an artful orator!—and do you really then think that a multitude dailily accuſtomed to all the artifice and force of harangue, is to be claſſed with a modern croud, opening wide their eyes, and mouths too, to the declaimer, as if ignorant with which ſenſe to receive the novel taſte of eloquence?

1777, William Young, The Spirit of Athens: Being a Political and Philosophical Investigation of the History of That Republic, London: J. Robson, page 62:

[…] of the institute will hasten the arrangement of a crowd of notes, which I have taken without any other design than that of preserving the memory of all that dailily offered itself to my curiosity.

1803, Vivant Denon, translated by Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte, volume I, London: Darf Publishers Ltd, published 1983, page lx:

Ah, Life's curtained altars, which hide as sacrifice / The best of human kind, from pride-perverted eyes! / And those who sheathe in smiles the deadly cruel steel / Of man's misunderstandings which, dailily, they feel!

1913, Bessie Q. Jordon [i.e., Rebecca Queen Jordan], “Victors”, in Poems, Boston, M.A.: The Gorham Press, page 61:

(nonstandard, rare) On a daily basis; every day.


cheerfullier

Doctor, stroke downe your stomack; The closer you follow Christ, the cheerfullier your flock will follow you: But know, in things so neare concerning us, our mouthes shall be as wide as the faults, be they of Potentates, Generals, or Princes: and if they doe not what our Conscience tels us is their duties, they shall not faile to heare ont.

1644, Francis Quarles, “The Whipper Whipt. Being a Reply upon a Scandalous Pamphlet, Called The Whip: Abusing That Excellent Work of Cornelius Burges, Dʳ in Divinity, One of the Assembly of Divines, Entituled, The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Discovered. […]”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Franis Quarles: Now for the First Time Collected and Edited: […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), […] private circulation, published 1880, page 176, column 2:

The concluſion hereof is, that every one by how much ſooner he is called then another, ought by ſo much the more cheerfullier to labour, and peaceably deport himſelf with others whereby to attain the reward which is propoſed unto them all.

1651, Iohn Diodati [i.e., Giovanni Diodati], translated by R. G., “Annotations upon S. Matthew”, in Pious Annotations upon the Holy Bible: Expounding the Difficult Places Thereof Learnedly, and Plainly, London: James Flesher; for Nicholas Fussel, chapter XX, column 1:

But to return to the main point, he, leſt we ſhould be miſtaken, gave us occaſion in plain words to remember you, that it is not he that doth refuſe to anſwer, but the Lords commanded him not to anſwer, which he the cheerfullier obeyed, in reſpeft of his fidelity to prefer the Univerſal Weal before his own particular.

1659 [1626], John Rushworth, compiler, Historical Collections of Private Passages of State. Of Weighty Matters in Law. Of Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments. Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618. and Ending the fifth Year of King Charls, Anno 1629. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for George Thomason, […], page 252:

I might, adds he, better have expected it from ſome I have more obliged, but your Thanks ſhall be the more; and that you may the cheerfullier continue, I give you this Aſſurance upon the Word of a Prince, that I ſhall never retract any Thing I have granted either in Religion or Liberty to my Subjects of Scotland; and for your own Part I will not die in your Debt (d).

1726, George Crawfurd, The Lives and Characters, of the Officers of the Crown, and of the State in Scotland, from the Beginning of the Reign of King David I. to the Union of the Two Kingdoms. Collected from Original Charters, Chartularies, Authentick Records, and the Most Approved Histories. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Robert Fleming and Company, and Sold by Mr. James M‘Euen […], page 217, column 1:

(rare, obsolete) comparative form of cheerfully: more cheerfully


dumb hard

dumb hard (comparative more dumb hard, superlative most dumb hard)

more dumb hard (comparative)
most dumb hard (superlative)

This song goes dumb hard!


coldlier

There will be care, but she will not know, / There will be winds that will rudelier blow, / And winter snows will coldlier beat, / Yet her rest shall be soft and sweet.

1859, Albert Sutliffe, “Our Sister”, in Poems, Boston, Mass., Cambridge, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, page 91:

“Go,” she said, coldlier, distinctlier than ever she has spoken.

1890 December 31, “Atcha! A Sternutation in Six Explosions. III.”, in Fun, volume LII, number 1338, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 283, column 2:

What if the eyes whose first regards / Met the new rapture of our own, / Looked coldlier on our aging forms; / The heart that beat for us alone // Absorbed in other cares, forgot / The grief of those that loved it most?

1874 January 10, Mary Prince Story, “Consolation”, in The Commonwealth, 12th year, number 19: 593, Boston, Mass.: Cha[rle]s W. Slack & Son, front page, column 3:

My neighbour’s weal is weal to me, / If reared not on my ruin! / And though for what I feel or be, / He’d care no more than Bruin, / I’d say, enjoy your silken share— / Yea! as I hope for Heaven; / For Coin and Care a wedded pair / Are six times out of seven! Miss Fortune trips a painted porch, / Too oft in slippery sandal, / Where coldlier glares her gilded torch, / Than Misery’s farthing candle!

1878, Francis Davis, “Caste and Creed”, in Earlier and Later Leaves: or, An Autumn Gathering, Belfast: Allen & Johnston, →OCLC, page 157:

He looked coldly at Tess. Then he looked coldlier at Sonia, starting with her lovely brown hair and going right down to her pretty slippers and then back up again: “Well, you’re a nice one,” he said at last.

1914 November 28, Kay Cleaver Strahan, “Eve’s Uncle Arkady”, in Mark Sullivan, editor, Collier’s: The National Weekly, volume 54, number 11, New York, N.Y., page 12, column 3:

For a flare / Of golden covering on every wall / Runs up to meet an evening, lambent glow / Athwart wide-tillaged landscapes: that thy play / May be encompass’d of an indoor day / Forever kindly; though the night may fall / Without, and coldlier stars may come and go.

1917, Reginald C[hauncey] Robbins, “To My Boy, on His Migration: I”, in Poems Domestic, Cambridge, Mass.: […] The Riverside Press, page 178:

Only if you hear such news as shall give you satisfaction for the general obligation for his Maty., if I may crave it I humbly desire you do impart it to none in those parts before I may speak with your worship lest it be coldlier prosecuted than you think, for some there be that happily will, for their own respects, cross it.

1940 [1612 January 14], “Thomas Albery to William Trumbull”, in A. B. Hinds, editor, Report on the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Downshire Preserved at Easthampstead Park, Berks (Historical Manuscripts Commission; 75), volumes 4 (Papers of William Trumbull the Elder, January 1613—August 1614), London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, page 14:

The memory we Jews preserve in brine falls longer, coldlier cut than all the shadows across our sanctuaries in ruins.

1947–1980, Robert Stock, “The Miracle of the Roses”, in David Galler, Harriette Stock, editors, Selected Poems (1947-1980), Chappaqua, N.Y.: Crane & Hopper, published 1994, →ISBN, page 39:

But, finding now that he hath secretly named me for that place, I do coldlier deal therein, knowing both my insufficiency and doubting of the success thereof.

1960 [1571 September 2], Conyers Read, quoting William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, “French Marriage Projects, 1571-72”, in Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth, London: Jonathan Cape, […], page 62:

(rare) comparative form of coldly: more coldly


cheerlier

Soon as the gray dawn peeps upon the hill, / Soon as the daylight falls upon the mill, / Swarms forth the laughing, happy negro-throng, / While through the glad air rings the crop-time song: / Not dearer home to school-imprisoned boys, / Nor cheerlier sing they home’s enchanting joys.

1833, M[atthew] J[ames] Chapman, “Barbadoes. Part II.”, in Barbadoes, and Other Poems, London: James Fraser, […], page 54:

No bird whose swelling throat / Quivers with song, or whose extended wing / Fans the soft air, but cheerlier doth sing— / And on the breezes float / Odors from blossoms which the sun’s caress / Hath woke to life in field and wilderness.

1843 May 20, William H[enry] Burleigh, “May”, in Robert Smith, editor, The Friend. A Religious and Literary Journal., volume XVI, number 34, Philadelphia, Pa., page 268, column 3:

Enchaunt me with your spells of art, / And draw me homeward to your heart: / Till weariness and things unkind / Seem but a vain and passing wind: / Till the gray morning slowly creep / Upward, and rouse the birds from sleep: / Till Oxford bells the silence break, / And find me happier, for your sake. / Then, with the dawn of common day, / Rest you! But I, upon my way, / What the fates bring, will cheerlier do, / In days not yours, through thoughts of you!

1890, Lionel Johnson, “Oxford Nights”, in Poems, London: Elkin Mathews; Boston, Mass: Copeland & Day, published 1895, page 87:

comparative form of cheerly: more cheerly


rudelier

And whan Arthur sawe hym, his harte quickened, and toke gret pyte of the payne & labour that he sawe hym take & endure so longe: and therwith he layde on more rudelier than he had done before of al the day: for such was his maner, the more he had to do, the more grew euer his strength & hardines.

a. 1534, John Bourchier, Lord Berners, transl., The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. […], London: […] White, Cochrane, and Co., […], published 1814, page 506:

They haue many wiues, thoſe wittie, warie in trading, bold and couragious: one of them rudelier handled by a Hollander, with a Iauelin had diſpatched him, if her force had not beene intercepted.

1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “The Voyage of Oliver Noort round about the Globe, beeing the fourth Circum-Nauigation of the same, extracted out of the Latine Diarie”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 77, lines 33–35:

The same rude Storme to Sea great Mary drove, / The Sea could noe such dangerous tempest move. / The same drove Charles into the North, and then / Would rudelier farr have driven him backe agen.

a. 1668, Abraham Cowley, edited by Allan Pritchard, The Civil War, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 77, lines 153–156:

Fran[cisco]. Who’s that Knocks ſo Rudely? / Guzm[an]. One that has been rudelier Knock’d himſelf; […]

1669, [Roger Boyle, 1st] Earl of Orrery, Guzman. A Comedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal., London: […] Francis Saunders […], published 1693, page 31:

Your highness broods too much: adversity / Acts on you as harness acts upon the steed / That is as yet unbroken, it inciting, / Even by its very, uncomprehended touch, / To violent and self-injurious efforts / To cast it off, which only make the Tamer / To strengthen it, and rudelier ply the bit / ’Till the proud beast consents to do its paces.

1857, [Charles Heavysege], Saul. A Drama. In Three Parts., Montreal, Que.: Henry Rose, […], pages 46–47:

There will be care, but she will not know, / There will be winds that will rudelier blow, / And winter snows will coldlier beat, / Yet her rest shall be soft and sweet.

1859, Albert Sutliffe, “Our Sister”, in Poems, Boston, Mass., Cambridge, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, page 91:

But e’er behind his rows of fashioned gods, / His rude conceptions, rudelier put in clay; / Insensible unto his prayers and nods, / A broader being throbs through night and day; / And they are truest devotees who say, / “Where’er the Principle of Being warms, / Man, beast, the flower, the tree, or what you may, / All things, my fellows, though in varied forms, / Nor can I boast a pulse more god-like, than the storm’s!”

1900, J[ohn] G[neisenau] Neihardt, “Procreation”, in The Divine Enchantment: A Mystical Poem, New York, N.Y.: James T[erry] White & Co., page 29:

A stream ran out to meet the sea’s long moan, / Lulling with a soft burden of its own; / From bending branches breathed the fragrant air / Not rudelier than when a dreamer’s hair / Across a dreamer’s unwaked eyes is blown.

1905 September 9, Edith M[atilda] Thomas, “The Place of Comfort”, in The Congregationalist and Christian World, volume XC, number 36, Boston, Mass.: The Pilgrim Press, page 337:

(rare) comparative form of rudely: more rudely


distinctlier

[…] / And, as they stretched him on the stone of blood, Did the huge trumpet of the God, with voice / Loud as the thunder-peal, and heard as far, / Proclaim the act of death, more visible / Than in broad day-light, by those midnight fires / Distinctlier seen.

1805, Robert Southey, “Canto XVIII”, in Madoc, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A[rchibald] Constable and Co, […], by James Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, part II (Madoc in Aztlan), page 356:

Nor from the land / Less awful was the scene. Distinctlier there / We saw and heard with what hydraulic skill / The dreadless fireman combated the flame, / Unheedful he of peril.

1834 November 22, Cymbeline [pseudonym], “Lines: On the destruction of both Houses of the British Parliament by fire, and the preservation of Westminster Hall and Abbey, October 16, a. d. 1834”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction: […], volume XXIV, number 692, London: […] J[ohn] Limbird, […], page 356, columns 1–2:

Then my own way / Bless me—a firmer arm, a fleeter foot, / I’ll thank you, but to no mad wings transmute / These limbs of mine—our greensward is too soft; / Nor camp I on the thunder-cloud aloft— / We feel the bliss distinctlier having thus / Engines subservient, not mixed up with us— / Better move palpably through Heaven—nor, freed / Of flesh forsooth, from space to space proceed / ’Mid flying synods of worlds—but in Heaven’s marge / Show Titan still, recumbent o’er his targe / Solid with stars—the Centaur at his game / Made tremulously out in hoary flame!

1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Sixth”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, pages 233–234:

There is a whisper ringing clear / In every sleepless listener’s ear, / A whisper of but scanty cheer, / And heard distinctlier every year— / “You might have been—you might have been.”

1854, [Charles Graham Halpine], “We Might Have Been”, in Lyrics by the Letter H, New York, N.Y.: J[ames] C[ephas] Derby, […]; Cincinnati, Oh.: H[enry] W. Derby, page 159:

Instead of that his hot hand suddenly seized mine and his dull-shining eyes swept my face for a moment, whilst he cried out, much loudlier and distinctlier than he had as yet spoken anything: “Edith! Ah, Edith, this is you at last. Where have you been keeping yourself?”

1873, Edgar Fawcett, Purple and Fine Linen. A Novel., G[eorge] W[ashington] Carleton & Co.; London: S[ampson] Low, Son & Co., page 404:

And then, as when our words seem all too rude / We cease from speech, to take our thought and brood / Back in our heart’s great dark and solitude, / So sank the strings to heartwise throbbing, / Of long chords change-marked with sobbing— / Motherly sobbing, not distinctlier heard / Than half wing-openings of the sleeping bird, / Some dream of danger to her young hath stirred.

1875 June, Sidney Lanier, “The Symphony”, in Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume XV, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., page 678:

“Go,” she said, coldlier, distinctlier than ever she has spoken.

1890 December 31, “Atcha! A Sternutation in Six Explosions. III.”, in Fun, volume LII, number 1338, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 283, column 2:

If one be a veritable worshipper of Pan, may not the murmur of the sap running up in the trees be heard, distinctlier the more of love is in the soul?

1894 April, Richard Burton, “When the Sap Runs Up in the Trees. A Spring Fantasy.”, in The New England Magazine, volume X, number 2, Boston, Mass., page 221, column 2:

Still another quality which goes to make Irving pleasant as well as profitable reading, and which we may call characteristic of the literary man rather than of the historian, is his humor. This is not confined to the Knickerbocker History and lightsome sketches like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but plays like heat lightning about the graver books, with a gentle lambency which makes them distinctlier remembered and longer enjoyed.

1898, Richard Burton, “Washington Irving’s Services to American History”, in Literary Likings, Boston, Mass.: Copeland and Day, page 270:

Who knows by what [space left blank] shore / The master Phantast dreamed and strayed / Till the low light grew strange and more, / And in the gloaming, half-afraid, / Against what dim volcanoes’ murk, / He saw the immortal masses stir, / Frenziedly gather [left blank] and jerk / Coagulate distinctlier, / Clutch at their Cosmos, shape and rise / Stiffening towards unheard-of skies, / In frozen stream stand stricken, blue, / Inenarrable?

1911, Rupert Brooke, uncompleted poem, in Robert Brainard Pearsall, Rupert Brooke: The Man and Poet, Amsterdam: Rodopi N.V., published 1974, →ISBN, page 85:

—Astern the spikes of rose and aureate dawn, before / In a blue sea there glows—a boundless sea no more— / Distinctlier shapes and grows yon white and verdant shore.

1929 June 1, A. Romney Green, “Columbus”, in Wessex: An Annual Record of the Movement for a University of Wessex, volume I, number 2, Southampton, Hants.: University College, Southampton, part II, page 21:

For each sentence choose the correct form. […] Speak (distinctlier, more distinctly), please.

1984, Joy Littell, editor, Building English Skills: Red Level (The McDougal, Litell English Program), Evanston, Ill.: McDougal, Littell & Company, →ISBN, page 449:

Most of the following sentences contain an error in the use of a modifier. […] Why didn’t you answer distinctlier?

2001, Language & Sentence Skills Practice: Support for the Holt Handbook (Holt Literature & Language Arts: Fourth Course), Austin, Tex.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 203:

(rare) comparative form of distinctly: more distinctly


reconnoiteringly

reconnoiteringly (comparative more reconnoiteringly, superlative most reconnoiteringly)

more reconnoiteringly (comparative)
most reconnoiteringly (superlative)


reginally

reginally (comparative more reginally, superlative most reginally)

more reginally (comparative)
most reginally (superlative)

She strode across the stage, bearing herself reginally.

1899 March 18, Max [i.e., Maximilian Beerbohm], “Comparisons”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume LXXXVII, number 2,264, London: […] [T]he Office, […], page 332, column 1:

– Angus! she said reginally. Make love to me! Come on! You know you have to. Here, on the ground!

2002, Tom Bullough, “q: what makes a gander meander in search of a goose?”, in A, London: Sort Of Books, published 2012, →ISBN:

Instead, what I detect of a still-contested ‘commonsense’ view of the world, from the working-class Burgher branch of my family, is that a class of VOC Burghers, who were privileged under the whites – yes, along with the post-1848 born-again feudals and traders – hollered when Black people here tried to take over, and in exchange for entombment by the arctic and the antarctic, yet bashfully put up and shut up about ill-concealed white-supremacy in Australia or Canada, both of which remain colonies even today, reginally ruled by an inbred constipated genetically modified Hun (yes, that was once our very own Hanoverian Hussy Queen Beti!).

2003, Rohini Hensman, “Sarath”, in Lines, volume 2, Colombo: Social Scientists’ Association, →ISSN, page 65:


antero-ventro-laterally

Alternative form of anteroventrolaterally


postero-ventro-laterally

Alternative form of posteroventrolaterally


shonuff

Now, me bein me, I had to correct my man's "bad grammar." I said, "Hey, watch yo dialect — it's you and J have some work to do." He turned fifty shades o' red, and I split. Naturally, that siggin of mine had shonuff blowed the possibility of me gittin any grant money!

1977, Geneva Smitherman, Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 199:

love yo self / til you resist being a shonuff stud fuckin / everything in sight, til you resist raping / yo sister, yo wife, somebody's grandmother.

1998, Sonia Sanchez, “For Tupac Amaru Shakur”, in Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems, Boston, M.A.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 122:

They get on my nerves, shonuff, but rabbits is still God's creatures. And sometimes, we creatures got to look out for each other.

2021, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 156:

Alternative form of sho nuff (sure enough)


clodhoppingly

clodhoppingly (comparative more clodhoppingly, superlative most clodhoppingly)

more clodhoppingly (comparative)
most clodhoppingly (superlative)


bedwise

I mean, every woman there from sixteen to eighty was giving him the what-about-it-sign and I — let's be honest — had nothing bedwise to offer.

1997, R[onald] Chetwynd-Hayes, “Rudolph”, in Stephen Jones, editor, The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium, London: Robinson Publishing, →ISBN, page 302:

While the others got sorted out bedwise, Madeleine and Élodie lingered on in the kitchen and helped Clemency clear up the remains of the meal.

1999, Carol Smith, Family Reunion, New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 180:

'What I didn't...still don't understand is why you held off from trying me out, bedwise, before taking me on as a wife,' said Liz. 'If you had been a shy man, awkward with women, it might have made sense. But for Valdecarrasca's notorious womaniser to hold back seemed very peculiar.'

2002, Anne Weale [pseudonym; Jay Blakeney], A Spanish Honeymoon, Richmond: Mills & Boon, →ISBN, page 277:

She sitting here behind a crossbar and what of Joe Lanigan, sprawling bedwise with his nurse-whore?

2009, Megan Abbott, Bury Me Deep, Waterville, M.E.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 300:

With regard to a bed or beds; often in allusion to sex.


dearliest

Even thoſe whom we loved dearlieſt, we avoid once dead; now we lay them aſide under the board, and thence ſend them out of our houſes to their grave.

1612–1626, Joseph Hall, Contemplations upon the Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Holy Jesus, London: […] E. Flesher, and are to be sold by Jacob Tonson, […], published 1679, page 386:

But you, O thrice ingenuous Queriſt, / Whom we by Sympathy love dearlieſt, / You are inſpir’d, there’s no doubt of ye / With Beef-Broth ſtrong, and potent Coffee!

1703, a Member of the Athenian Society, The Athenian Oracle: Being an Entire Collection of All the Valuable Questions and Answers in the Old Athenian Mercuries. […], volume II, London: […] Andrew Bell, […], page 481:

All past and present losses shrink / In that sad blow comprest, / Those we last loved, we seem to love / The dearliest and the best.

a. 1864, Francis Kilvert, “The Last Loss”, in W[illiam] L[uke] N[ichols], editor, Remains in Verse and Prose of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, M.A. With a Brief Memoir., Bath: S. W. Simms, […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, published 1866, page 26:

Land of us all that have loved thee dearliest, / Mother of men that were lords of man, / Whose name in the world’s heart works as a spell, / My last song’s light, and the star of mine earliest, / As we turn from thee, sweet, who wast ours for a span, / Fare well we may not who say farewell.

1878, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “[Four Songs of Four Seasons.] II. Spring in Tuscany.”, in Poems and Ballads, second series, London: Chatto and Windus, […], page 180:

(rare) superlative form of dearly: most dearly


fairlier

Bel[linda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartf[ree]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bel[linda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlier got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.

1698, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok’d Wife: A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: […] Richard Wellington […]: And are to be Sold by Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, act III, page 28:

Dear Christ, who knew’st sweet Honour’s art, / And clad’st humanity, / E’en fairlier than my proud heart / Though craveth it to see / More beautiful—more, more divine / Life’s purpose, ere at knighthood’s shrine / I kneel and vow, and make it mine.

1877, Walter Rew, “[Appendix.] The Heart’s Sabbath.”, in Dion: A Tragedy; and Poems, London: Trübner and Co., →OCLC, page 223:

The sun, when setting fairly on this land, / Dawns fairlier still upon some alien strand, / And I, as this world’s shape of me lies dead, / Perchance shall sail into the golden West, / Within a spirit ship, at Death’s behest, / And see, Columbus-like, new worlds ahead.

1896, Gordon Bottomley, “Death”, in The Mickle Drede and Other Verses, Kendal, Cumbria: […] T. Wilson, […], →OCLC, page 69:

No man could carve out leafage and beasts fairlier than Lavrans, but with men’s semblances he had never been over happy.

1927, Sigrid Undset, translated by Charles Archer, “Debtors”, in The Cross, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, published 1929, →OCLC, page 142:

(rare) comparative form of fairly: more fairly


certainlier

We are ſayd to receiue, to obteyne, to gette that whiche ſo farre as concerneth the felyng of our faith, is geuen vs of the Loꝛde, whether he doo then fyꝛſt teſtifie it, oꝛ beyng teſtified dothe moꝛe and certainlier confirme it.

1561 May 6, Ihon Caluin [i.e., John Calvin], translated by [Thomas Norton], The Institution of Christian Religion, […], London: […] Reinolde Vvolfe & Richarde Harison, folio 103, verso:

[…] withall let them vnderſtande, and be well aſſured, that the M. M. Adventurers both know, and regarde the eſſentiall partes, groundes, and pillers of Trafficque, and of olde tyme haue put them in practiſe, and yet at this day doe quietelier, better, & certainlier obſerue, and mainteyne them, then the Cuſtomers of the out Portes (I feare me) doe their office: […]

1601, Iohn Wheeler, A Treatise of Commerce, wherin Are Shewed the Commodies Arising by a Wel Ordered, and Ruled Trade, Such as That of the Societie of Merchantes Adventurers Is Proved to Bee, […], Middelburg, Zeeland: […] Richard Schilders, […], page 84:

Or who seeth not this: that, euen men who deserue to be well thought of for many causes,* yet in some particular things refusing to be directed aright, and following their owne will, and caried by their euill affections, take libertie to themselues to misspende the time in foolish iesting, idle and harmefull talking, in lightnesse, in wantonnesse of the eie, euill companionship, &c. for the which sweet meat they haue afterwards soure sauce: and by those meanes onely, raise vp in their hearts secret accusations, checks of conscience, hor∣rour and feare of death and the iudgement day, quenching of the spirit of God, and such like; and the better men they be, the sooner and certainlier they are thus rewarded.

1603, Richard Rogers, Seuen Treatises, Containing Such Direction as Is Gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, Leading and Guiding to True Happines, Both in This Life, and in the Life to Come: and May Be Called the Practise of Christianitie. […], London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man, and Robert Dexter, […], pages 530–531; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

(rare, obsolete) comparative form of certainly: more certainly


lapwise

Despite their name, laptops seem to rarely be used lapwise.

The man rushed through it just in time to leave beside the road a volcanic eruption that to have been the recipient of which, lapwise, would have made the trip memorable indeed.

1986, Peter De Vries, Peckham's Marbles, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 91:

Thank goodness the cat took about half the coffee—which she certainly deserved. Things could have been a lot worse for me had she not been situated exactly where she was, lapwise, and anyway her hair grew back rather quickly.

1991, Robert Hitt Neill, Don't Fish Under the Dingleberry Tree (And Other Philosophies of Life), Leland, M.S.: Mississippi River Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 201:

Reading postures varied. Some attendees sat cross-legged with a book resting lapwise. Others were curled up on a sofa.

2023 December 19, Molly Young, “My Evening at Reading Rhythms, a Party for Bookish Introverts”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-29:


carefullier

It ſhoulde ſhame vs of our calling, to come behind men of his place, either in knowledge or zeale. His example, who is nothing obliged to labour in theſe points, as you are, ſhall do much I truſt, with you, for the time to come. Shoulde any looke carefullier to the Vine-yard, than the keepers? or ſhould any out-goe the ſeruants of the houſe in diligences? Repent, therefore, and amende your owne negligence in this behalfe, and call vpon all others for amendement, whileſt you haue time.

1616, I. S., “To the Right Reverend Fathers and Brethren, the Bishops and Ministers of the Church of Scotland”, in Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis. A Tract, of the Rights & Respect Due vnto Churches. […], Edinburgh: […] Andro Hart, signatures A4, verso – [A5, recto]:

For the zeale that we ought to haue to the glory of God, the charity which we ſhould ſhew towards our neighbours, and the good that we wiſh vnto our ſelues, moueth vs euery day to make this prayer vnto God; and ſo much the carefulier and earnestlier, as ſaying it from the mouth of Ieſus Chriſt, that made it: we are aſſured to be heard, and conſequently to ſerue for the aduancement of the kingdome of God, to the good and ſaluation of our brethren, and for our owne benefit. […] It followeth, that there is nothing which wee ought more earneſtly to deſire, nor carefullier to ſeeke for, then the kingdome of heauen; that is, to bee participant in the Church of the holy Miniſterie, and by the exerciſe and vſe thereof, to establiſh the kingdome of God in vs, thereby at the laſt to enter into the poſſeſſion of the eternall kingdome of God with the bleſſed.

1618, Peter de la Primaudaye [i.e., Pierre de La Primaudaye], translated by W. P. [i.e., William Phillip?], The Christian Philosophie of the French Academie. Of the True and Onely Meanes to Obtaine Eternall Life. The Fourth Booke. […] (The French Academie. Fully Discoursed and Finished in Foure Bookes. […]), London: […] [John Legat] for Thomas Adams, pages 909 and 966:

Whurry to this place, yee no∣ble and honourable Personages; spare no treasure, but purchase a standing, to Behold the Man. You that dwell vpon such nice and re∣spectiue termes of honour, who rate a Lye at the price of a Life, and a Stroke aboue the value of your Soule; carefullier to be accounted valiant, then honest; and fashiona∣ble, then Religious; who purchase vertues onely to sell away your vi∣ces, rather forsaking God then your Mistresse: […]

1619, I. C., The Euer-Burning Lamps of Pietie and Deuotion. Kindled by Many Excellent and Heauenly Prayers, Deuided into the Seuerall Dayes of the Weeke, and Other Occasions: […], London: […] George Purslowe for Richard Hawkins, […], page 229; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

V. 6. For I am:] look to thy selfe and to thy Ministerie so much the carefullier, because I know that I shall shortly be taken away from thee: name∣ly, I who hitherto have been thy tutor, thy guide, thine example and upholder.

1643, Iohn Diodati [i.e., Giovanni Diodati], translated by [R. G.?], Pious Annotations, upon the Holy Bible: Expounding the Difficult Places Thereof Learnedly, and Plainly: VVith Other Things of Great Importance. […], London: […] T. B. for Nicholas Fussell: […], page 47; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

To man alone (not beaſts nor Angels) hath nature given a nauſeouſnes of the preſent. The beſt things in the world if not accompanied with variety, become diſtaſtful. And nothing sooner then Diſcourſe: which is ſo much carefullier to be menaged, as the eare is ſooner cloy’d then the eie. Prudent eies are kept open by reaſon, ordinary perſons by wit.

1673, [Obadiah Walker], Of Education. Especially of Young Gentlemen. […], Oxon.: […], page 258:

Let's get back on HARD TO FIND (Vol.1 or not) - it certainly is a nice thing, but in my book, it could be lots better if some of those tracks were carefullier copied.

1996 September 2, Kraft66 [pseudonym], “DEEP BENEATH THE WAVES vol 38”, in rec.music.dylan (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

Yes, he arrives. I must see that again and watch carefullier this time. And I must order it on dvd, while I'm thinking of it.

2004 March 5, Song of Joy [pseudonym], “Shades of 'Parenthood'”, in alt.fan.keanu-reeves (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

Film fan redux wrote:
>>Uh, he meant the new version, which doesn't.
>
>
> Listen carefully to the trailer. It does.
Listen carefullier, and in context--
They're referring to "the Manchuria Corporation".

2004 June 28, Derek Janssen, “manchurian candidate question (j)”, in rec.arts.movies.current-films (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

Please read what I asked, and not what you think I asked. I asked you how many of *YOU* are there. I didn't ask how many members of your family are there. In futurer, please read the posts more carefullier.

2006 November 3, TG'sFM [pseudonym], “How many in here have the Christian name of Donald?”, in aus.tv (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

> I've packaged the latest version of Cultivation for Debian, but I'm getting
> a strange bug report ( http://bugs.debian.org/440137 )
>
> I'll try to look at it carefullier later, but just wanted to ask if you
> might know anything about it.

2007 August 31, Miriam Ruiz, “Bug#440137: Fwd: cultivation: movement with the mouse is broken”, in linux.debian.bugs.dist (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

The magnitude of Drover’s corruption left me dizzy and speechless, and don’t tell me that I should have been listening more carefullier. Care-full-lee-er. More careful. Don’t tell me that I should have…phooey.

2013, John R[ichard] Erickson, “Something Big and Hairy”, in The Ghost of Rabbits Past (Hank the Cowdog; 62), Perryton, Tex.: Maverick Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 17:

(rare) comparative form of carefully: more carefully


cheaplier

And their own thoughts and experience muſt teach them that in many years which from an Experienced man they might have cheaplier learnt, in a few days.

1689, Richard Baxter, A Treatise of Knowledge and Love Compared. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Parkhurst […], pages 183–184:

The Moor, / Who from the plunder of their native land / Had bought the recreant crew that join’d his arms, / Or cheaplier with their own possessions bribed / Their sordid souls, saw through the flimsy show / Of policy wherewith they sought to cloak / Old enmity, and selfish aims: […]

1814, Robert Southey, “Canto VIII”, in Roderick, the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 101:

But if anything is to be done, let it be done quickly. Such a trial could never be made cheaplier than at this time, when war would apply the really straining test.

1857 September 25, Another Oxford Graduate [pseudonym], “The Volunteers”, in The Times, number 22,797, London, published 1857 September 28, page 4, column 4:

Forsaking everywhere / To prizes cheaplier won, / The eternal morn of true and pure / Shall light us on and on, / Till over summits dim / In purple glooms afar, / We see through deepening glory swim / Our victory’s morning star!

1875 February 20, George S[hepard] Burleigh, “A Hymn of Aspiration”, in The New-England Journal of Education. […], volume I, number 8, Boston, Mass.: The New-England Publishing Company, page 87, column 1:

And this same policy is a logical deduction from certain admitted as essential facts, to-wit, namely: that the State derives an income from her penitentiary through a lease which is not unprofitable to its holders, and that she supplies her people with the standard commodity of education very much cheaplier than they can supply themselves.

1876 April 8, X-Cal-I-Bus [pseudonym], “‘Officers to the Front’”, in R. W. Thomas, editor, Clarksville Weekly Chronicle, volume 43, number 45 (whole 2,229), Clarksville, Tenn.: J. S. Neblett & J. A. Grant, page [2], column 4:

Salvation had been cheaplier priced / Had your God ruled: the Crucified / For mercy from the cross had cried, / And our redemption had been given / By diplomatic note from heaven!

1894, Henrik Ibsen, translated by F[ydell] Edmund Garrett, Brand: A Dramatic Poem, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, →OCLC; quoted in “[Books.] Two Translations of Ibsen’s ‘Brand.’”, in The Spectator, number 3,440, London, 1894 June 2, page 754:

Since my letter of Oct. 20, I have found out a man that had lived in Carolina and was concerned in making pitch and tar. From him I have discovered that tar will be much cheaplier made than I thought for.

1908, Cecil Headlam, editor, Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1699. […], London: […] [F]or His Majesty’s Stationery Office, [b]y Mackie and Co. Ld., […], page 496:

I shall in another letter demonstrate that the King will be better and cheaplier furnished with principal ship-timber from Pescattaway than he is now of the growth of England, for I have made a nice calculation.

1910, Cecil Headlam, editor, Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, 1700. […], London: […] [F]or His Majesty’s Stationery Office by the Hereford Times Co., Ltd., […], page 193:

Then somebody told him that much nearer Dublin was a seaport whence he could sooner and cheaplier embark for Italy, and in ill-advisedly trying to reach Queenstown he did indeed go helplessly astray.

1922 February 3 [a. 1918?], Jane Barlow, “Exiles at Lisconnel”, in The Wells Journal; Somerset & West of England Advertiser; […], volume LXXII, number 5, Wells, Somerset, page [6], column 2:

A little tune of a pool that holds its stars / Cheaper than pebbles; for it lets them fly, / When blue day lifts her sun-engoldened bars / To hide the ashen distances of sky. / A little tune of a pool that knows the moon, / And holds her cheaplier still.

1925, Clement Wood, “A Little Tune”, in The Eagle Flies: Sonnets, Chicago, Ill.: The Bookfellows:

Testing might have revealed the software fault, this time, but next time a fault will get uncaught. Surely, now that we know the bug, it is simple to think of nice tests that would have relealed^([sic – meaning revealed]) the bug cheaplier.

1997 March 19, Karel Thönissen, “Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract”, in comp.lang.eiffel (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

We try to find interesting ways to do things cheaplier. Is a $50 smart fountain more interesting than a $500 hidden humidifier?

2000 November 17, Nick Pine, “Humidifiers”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

Choose the correct form of comparison for each sentence. […] Some families live even (more cheaply, more cheaplier).

[2001, Language Network: Grammar, Writing, Communication, Evanston, Ill.: McDougal Littell, →ISBN, page 219:

not cheaper...cheaplier.
maxima has so much more and only $2-3000 more
"SoCalMike" wrote in message […]
> i dont see a reason for the maxima anymore... the altima does it all. and
> cheaper.

[2002 September 28, tomk, “2003 Accord a failure - Camry much better!!!”, in rec.autos.makers.honda (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

Even cheaplier, go to www.tires.com, buy 4 Yoko F720 195/70R14 tires for $264 with free shipping. If you can find someone to mount/balance for $40 like I did, you're looking at $304 for four winter tires.

2002 December 5, Matthew Hunt, “Which Snow Tire is the Best to get?”, in rec.autos.makers.honda (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

Use proofreading marks to correct seven errors in using adjectives or adverbs to compare,[…]. Our company decided to build cars by using an assembly line this made our operation most productive than it had been. We could sell the cars cheaplier.

[2007, Houghton Mifflin Reading: Practice Book, Grade 5, volume 2 (Themes 4–6), Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 195:

(rare) comparative form of cheaply: more cheaply


happilier

Now further, for people that liue vnder a good miniſtry, (to ſay a little of them, Moſes his being among the people, doth wofully prognoſticate, vnto what a paſſe they are like to grow, if they had elbow roome. For though none might liue happilier then they, yet who (for the moſt part) doe leſſe looke after it? for as they in Moſes abſence from them but fortie daies, made themſelues a calfe to worſhip: euen ſo the people are ſo brutiſh in theſe daies, and diſordered, euen while their faithfull paſtors liue with them, that the greateſt part of them, take no good by them: what did I ſay? nay they liue moſt offenſiuely vnder them.

1615, Richard Rogers, A Commentary vpon the VVhole Booke of Iudges. Preached First and Deliuered in Sundrie Lectures; Since Collected, and Diligently Perused, and Now Published. […], London: […] Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, […], page 112:

For in me there is no more feare of eternall death, ſeeing my ſoule, beleeuing in the Sonne of God, before death, paſſeth from death to life, I doe no more feare corporall death, becauſe in reſpect of me it is no more a paine inflicted vpon mee for ſin, but a teſtimony of the goodnes of God, who by that way will haue me enter into life, no more a deſtruction vnto mee, but a preparation made for me to attain to a better ſtate, and to liue happilier, nor no more a ſubiect to deſpaire, but an argument of hope, that I ſhall ſee my Sauiour in my fleſh, participating with his life, to be with him without ſpot or wrinkle, feare of death, or vengeance for ſinne: […]

1618, Peter de la Primaudaye [i.e., Pierre de La Primaudaye], translated by W. P. [i.e., William Phillip?], The Christian Philosophie of the French Academie. Of the True and Onely Meanes to Obtaine Eternall Life. The Fourth Booke. […] (The French Academie. Fully Discoursed and Finished in Foure Bookes. […]), London: […] [John Legat] for Thomas Adams, page 1028:

Nor did’ſt thou courage vvant, though thou did’ſt kill / Thy father, and his pretious bloud did’ſt ſpill. / Would thy valour had beene happilier employ’d, / Though he vvere unvvillingly by thee deſtroy’d. / For thou Ægiſthus kill’dſt unluckily, / And did’ſt fulfill thy hapleſſe fate thereby.

1636, Ovid, translated by W[ye] S[altonstall], Ovid’s Heroicall Epistles, London: […] R. B. for Michael Sparke, […], page 49:

Notwithſtanding by his free goodneſſe hee hath inveſted us in ſome right, both by Promiſe, Oath and Covenant, by which it is impoſſible, as Saint Paul ſaith, that he ſhould play falſe with us; ſo that though he may ſeem to treat us unjuſtly here, yet hee can and will recompence it happilier to us in an other world, whereas dunghill Flies by his holy will are not capable of another life: […]

1648, Ant: Ashcam [i.e., Anthony Ascham], A Discourse: Wherein Is Examined, What Is Particularly Lawfull During the Confusions and Revolutions of Government. Or, How Farre a Man May Lawfully Conforme to the Powers and Commands of Those Who with Various Successes Hold Kingdomes Divided by Civill or Forreigne Warres, […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], page 102:

Wherefore I have delibe∣rated to beseech you, to give me leave to goe abroad, being an ar∣med Knight, desiring to receive this Order by no other more valiant, or happilier presaging hand then yours.

1655, Gio[vanni] Francesco Biondi, translated by R[obert] G[entilis], Coralbo. A Nevv Romance in Three Bookes. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley […], page 32; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

We ought likewiſe to conſider that there are moral Vertues which conciliate ſuch a Reverence to the Practiſers of them, that they are great helps to preſerve and make flouriſhing every Kingdom and Commonweal, and which conſtitute a conſiderable Religious Portion of civil Government; and when Princes and People exerciſe them, both live happilier, than when without them, great Sanctity and Devotion are only pretended. […] Being deſirous, as much as I can, to ſhow the Ancienteſt uſages, and under the ſeveral Conqueſts of England; how the Government hath received Growth and Alteration (ſometimes the People being under the Slavery of abſolute Conquerors, and other times factious Nobles bearding their Kings) how the even Thred of Regular Government hath been carried on or interrupted; how from an abſolute Power of giving Law, and ruling in a Military way, by the Feudal Law, and many other particulars, the Government is brought to that Temperament, whereby the Subjects may, if they will be dutiful, live happilier than any other do.

1686, Nathaniel Johnston, The Excellency of Monarchical Government, Especially of the English Monarchy; Wherein Is Largely Treated of the Several Benefits of Kingly Government, and the Inconvenience of Commonwealths. […], London: […] T. B. for Robert Clavel […], pages 83 and 157:

All men here have a voice in declaring who shall be the officers of government. This voice is manifested in exercising what is called the right of suffrage. Reason teaches that this is conformable to Nature, and experience shows that better officers are obtained by this method, and that people live happilier under the administration of such officers.

1849 March 2, “Party Politics”, in James Densmore, editor, Oshkosh True Democrat. […], volume I, number 3, Oshkosh, Wis.: Densmore & Cooley, →OCLC, page [2], column 2:

I request you to fashion the suit to be worth to me £3,000 or more, whereby I may have some good cause to think my time, expenses, and service the happilier employed and my obligation to you the greater.

1852 July 13, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, Great Britain, Public Record Office, published 1909, page 156:

Eggie merrily gets married, and all live happily till presumably Sinus dies, when all live happilier.

1958 April 1, Reddem Quick [pseudonym], “Book Revue”, in The Pilot, volume 32, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Fort Hamilton High School, page three:

Another interesting thing about Happily[-Ever-After Land]’s sky is that, unlike the rest of the North Pole, the sun stays out until around 7 PM every night, causing everyone to live even happilier.

1975 December 20, Robert Stall, “The Monster Who Almost Spoiled Christmas”, in Weekend Magazine (The Montreal Star), volume 25, number 51, Montreal, Que., chapter 2, page 13, columns 2–3:

Congratulations Borland. I happy to see that our suggestions are not thrown away! Thank you for this new release of Visual Dbase (7.01)... We are still waiting but not for so much and with more hope and happilier.

1998 March 27, Paulo Pereira, “Congratulations for 7.01”, in borland.public.vdbase.programming (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

Sharon L. Krossa wrote
Happily, there is available
> on the internet many very useful articles for those interested in
> re-creating pre-1600 names. Even happilier, there is a single site that
> lists just about every reliable article out there: […]

2000 February 9, The Woodruffs, “Faire names”, in alt.fairs.renaissance (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

(rare) comparative form of happily: more happily


dearlier

Woulde it greue hym to ſet naught by money foꝛ Chꝛiſtes ſake, that is readye to leade hys ſonne, whome the father loued dearlier than he did hym ſelfe, vnto death?

1549 August 26 (Gregorian calendar), Erasmus, “The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Canonicall Epistle of S. James. The .ii. Chapter.”, in Iohn Olde [i.e., John Old], transl., The Seconde Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament: […], London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, →OCLC, folio xxxii, verso:

How lovely now doſt thou appear to me! Never was man dearlier rewarded.

1622 (first performance), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The Changeling: […], London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1653, →OCLC, Act II:

Neece. Not I Sir! all my joys that word cuts off; / You made profeſſion once you lov’d me beſt; / ’Twas but profeſſion! / Hip[polito]. I do’t too truly, / And fear I ſhall be chid for’t: Know the worſt then: / I love thee dearlier then an Uncle can.

c. 1623–1624 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, “Women Beware Women. A Tragedy”, in Two New Playes. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1657, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 101:

Oh you are pleaſant Strephon. Sapho ſay, / Are you as cruell as Aminta? Day / Loves not the Sunne-ſhine dearlier than my flame / Is equally devoted to your name: / To yours Aminta joyntly, Oh you two, / Are clearer, ſweeter than the morning dew / Falling in May on Lillies, fairer farre / Than Venus Swannes, or ſpotleſſe Ermins are.

1639, Hen[ry] Glapthorne, Argalus and Parthenia. […], London: […] R[ichard] Bishop for Daniel Pakeman, […], page 20:

My beſt reſpect to our beſt friend. If thou loveſt me, be merry. He deſires it, who loves thee dearlier than himſelf, and ſhall ever remain / Thy truly loving huſband, J. C.

1656, J. C. [pseudonym; perhaps Edward Sexby], “[Intercepted letters, suppos’d from Sexby.] Jo. Smith for his best friend E. C.”, in Thomas Birch, A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Esq; […], volume V (Containing Papers of the Year MDCLV), London: […] [T]he Executor of the late Mr. Fletcher Gyles; Thomas Woodward, […]; [a]nd Charles Davis, […], published 1742, page 307:

Communion with Chriſt, his body and blood and his Saints in his Ordinances, is a bleſſing ſo great, that he that robs ſuch of it that have right to it, may anſwer it dearlier than if he had rob’d them of their purſes: […]

1680, Richard Baxter, The True and Only Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches: The Desirableness of It, and the Detection of False Dividing Terms, London: […] John Hancock […], page 120:

Then tell her I’m awfully sorry—and I love her dearlier than any one else in the world, and I couldn’t make out what we were all about when papa came and carried me away—and I’m very glad she did steal me—and when I’m grown up, I’ll come and live with her, and be always good for ever!

1887, M. Bramston, “In Hiding”, in Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, editor, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, third series, volume XIII, London: Walter Smith (Late Mozley), […], part II, chapter XV, page 445:

A man of Devon he was, broad-shouldered and fair, with long arms and strong hands, and he could throw a spear as well as he could sit a horse, and pull an oar as well as he could throw a spear; and dearly he loved hawk and horse and hound, but dearlier than all things he loved his wife Enid—Enid of the Faded Dress.

[1900?], Nora Chesson, “Geraint and Enid”, in Tales from Tennyson, London, Paris, New York, N.Y.: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., →OCLC, page 57:

Roy loved his mother and his father dearly, / Joy loved her mother and her father dearly, / Both loved their parents dearlier than anything— / Except, perhaps, a pet.

1965, Ogden Nash, The Animal Garden, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans & Company, Inc., →LCCN:

(rare) comparative form of dearly: more dearly


strangelier

I remember some of my neighbours of Gawsworth would needs keep me company to Alderley, and one of them sware an oath, (I think I could go to the place where it was to this day,) and methought it sounded strangelier to me than ever before it had done.

1650, Henry Newcome, edited by Richard Parkinson, The Autobiography of Henry Newcome, M.A. (Remains, Historical & Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, […]; XXVI), [Manchester]: […] [T]he Chetham Society, published 1852, page 19:

Soon the fame of this was ſpread through all Parts thereabouts, which came at laſt with great wonder to the Kings Ear; but he ſhew’d himſelf more amaz’d and ſtrangelier concern’d than the Relater; and very earneſt ſuddenly to ſee and know what they might ſignifie, ſtraight commanded the Marbles to be brought to Court.

1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, “A Memorable Embassy to the Emperor of Japan”, in Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan. […], London: […] [T]he Author, […], page 18:

Strangelier assorted company / Than this, which through that ancient wood / Their solitary course pursued, / No errant knight might chance to see, / Wandering, in good King Arthur’s days, / Through Faery or Loegria land, / Where most adventures were at hand.

a. 1844, Robert Southey, “[Oliver Newman.] IX. Journey through the Forest.”, in Oliver Newman: A New-England Tale (Unfinished): With Other Poetical Remains, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], published 1845, page 74:

At the beginning, I used to say (most truly) that words were all inadequate to express my feelings,—now, those very feelings seem, as I see them from this present moment, just as inadequate in their time to represent what I am conscious of now. I do feel more, widelier, strangelier . . how can I tell you? You must believe,—my only, only beloved!

1846 May 1, Robert Browning, “R[obert] B[rowning] to E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett]”, in The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846; […], volume II, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1899, pages 116–117:

And Music;—hast thou felt that howsoe’er / Her mastering preludes march upon the air,— / With whatso gladness her full stream she flings / Tumultuous thro’ the swirl of terrene things,— / Though she awhile, when the airy notes have flown, / Encompass all men’s passion in her own, / Till ‘ye who know what thing Love is’ can see / His wings in the air vibrate enchantingly,— / Yet oftener, strangelier, are her accents set / Toward hopes unfathomed thro’ an unknown regret;— / […]

1882, Frederic W[illiam] H[enry] Myers, “The Renewal of Youth”, in The Renewal of Youth and Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., part II, pages 223–224, lines 401–410:

Win / A master-mind to serve us needs we must, / One who, from motives we but take on trust, / Acts strangelier—haply wiselier than we know— / Stronglier, for certain.

1887, Robert Browning, “With George Bubb Dodington”, in Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day: […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VI, pages 115–116:

Hearts of oak, our sires, who knew / Nelson’s snowy towers upsoaring, / Strangelier ride our Jackets Blue, / Strange sea-horses weirdly oaring.

1896, John Huntley Skrine, “[‘The Ocean Throne’: Choric Songs from a Masque Written for Music and Performed at the Celebration of the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria] Sailors”, in Songs of the Maid and Other Ballads and Lyrics, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., verse II, page 95:

That godlike man, for this cause, should, like God / Show somewhat, strikes not strangelier than that earth / Favours her sun-sire.

1901, Philip James Bailey, “Proem”, in Festus: […], London: George Routledge & Sons, […], page 14:

And for the second time, and now strangelier still, for the hotter occasion that was now than in the council chamber for bloody rages, the moment passed.

1935, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, “Sferra Cavallo: […]”, in Mistress of Mistresses: A Vision of Zimiamvia (Zimiamvian Trilogy; 1), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1967 August, page 133:

It was a desperate and soul-sickening discovery to know that not alone through moonlight, magic, and the radiant images of their heart's desire could men find America, but that somewhere there, and far darklier and strangelier than the river, lay the thing they sought, in all the blind and brutal complications of its destiny—[…]

1935, Thomas Wolfe, “Proteus: The City”, in Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 571:

“[…] I, to my horror (as you may conjecture) saw that these everlasting orbs were set-awry from their accustomed coign, all subtly out-of-place, as dislodged from their sphere by some supernal and omnific Hand, and all the night around me was quick with fiery signs and portents marvelous and strange . . . and suchlike, good my lords, and, aye, even those matters strangelier than these . . .” […] “What other matters even strangelier than these do you think on?[…]”

1969, Lin Carter, Beyond the Gates of Dream, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, pages 144–145:

Here is the Bishops’ Bible, 43 years older: But when yee pray, babble not much, as the heathen doe. For they thinke that they shall be heard, for their much babblings sake. Ah, now my heart is strangelier warmed! The Geneva Bible helps faith along by being still a bit more obscure in its spellings. Now we are back to “muche babbling.”

1977 April 17, Martin E[mil] Marty, “[Bad Blood Over the Good News Bible] Praye Bable Not Over This Text”, in Los Angeles Times, volume XCVI, Los Angeles, Calif., part VI, page 7:

Knowest thou that in the ten years that I, Alhazred, did spend in the trackless wastes of Arabia Felix, after what time that I rose up and departed out of the city of the Alexandrians, many and strange were the happenings that befell me, but none there was that was strangelier than this which now I would relate. […] But as to that of which he feared I knew not, nor did I care to guess: and the Truth of it all, when at length I gained the knowledge, was strange and strangelier than ever I could have dreamed …

a. 1989, Lin Carter, “[The Necronomicon: The Dee Translation] The Seventh Narrative: The Madness out of Time”, in Robert M[cNair] Price, editor, The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab (Call of Cthulhu® Fiction), Oakland, Calif.: Chaosium, published 1996 November, →ISBN, pages 148–149:

Strangely enough, it was first suggested back then as a medal from the Pope by Joe Myers. […] Even strangelier, Chinese economist Ma Yinchu mentioned the following policy in explaining the causes of the rapid increase of China's population in the late 50's: […]

1998 October 6, Rich Lafferty, “Letter of commendation from Pope?”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

I don't know why (no, really...for a change it's not alkeehol or sleepless delirium), but I just pictured BG's face on Yoda. I know, it's the wrong side of the Force and all that, but something about teh ears is makin' me giggle, and me lab-mates are looking at me strangely (ok, strangelier than usual).

2000 September 12, Daniel E. Macks, “I give up”, in rec.humor.oracle.d (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

Strangely enough I had no idea that they were in any way eryvtvbhf. (Shows how carefully I listen to lyrics!) Even strangelier (well, why not?) the lyrics to "There she goes" aren't included in the sleeve notes although every other song is there. Looks like they found out too late to do anything about it.

2001 February 11, Allan Girvan, “Wibble”, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

> > *looks at you strangely*
>
> (*staring back at ya!*)
*looks at you even strangelier*

2002 February 11, Rupert Wanderer, “A girl has confused me :)”, in rec.games.computer.ultima-dragons (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

>> Every day, it's racist postings and strangely enough, it's from
>> the McBush supporters.
>>
>Strangely??? McBush.......NAAAAAHHHHH!
>
And, even strangelier, when I point out this reprehensible behavior there is a slew of postings from the McBushies with racist subject lines. Go figure.

2008 August 26, Bradley K. Sherman, “Still With The Racism In These Newsgroups??”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

Bada bing Mike Dee bada bang:
> Mike Yetto wrote:
>
>> Keep in mind that there are several functions in Xnews that
>> behave strangly with the Scroll Lock set.
>
> Keep in mind there are several functions in Xnews that behave
> strangely, period.
>
Strangelier? Strangerly?

2009 December 22, Mike Yetto, “XNews navigation question”, in news.software.readers (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

(rare) comparative form of strangely: more strangely


sternlier

To whom, as more amazed and sternlier stung, / Faltering, the traitor urged this wild address: […]

a. 1839, John Fitchett, edited by Robert Roscoe, King Alfred: A Poem, volume V, London: William Pickering, published 1842, page 384, lines 1473–1474:

And haply, with the cream of sacred lore / Was blent some modern’s sweet but thrilling tale, / That made his eye gleam sternlier than before,— / A tale of Times when Scotland’s stifled wail, / And Persecutor’s shout, were blent on every gale.

1843 June, G[eorge] P[aulin], “Rhymed Sketches of Scottish Peasant Life”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine for 1843, volume X, number CXIV, Edinburgh: William Tait, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; Dublin: John Cumming, section I, page 384, column 1:

In vain she’d sought through many a striving hour / The word to break which stole the people’s bread; / His freezing brow did but the darker lower, / While sternlier to his will the tax he wed.

1865, John Poyer, “The Lady Godiva”, in St. Thomas à Becket; and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], page 94:

Accept the swift and rueful death, / Taught, somewhat sternlier than is wont, what waits / The ambiguous creature,—how the one black tuft / Steadies the aim of the arrow just as well / As the wide faultless white on the bird’s breast.

1869, Robert Browning, “X. The Pope.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, pages 53–54, lines 1224–1228:

I know no law that sternlier deals / With strangers than with kindred blood.

1894, Henrik Ibsen, translated by C[harles] H[arold] Herford, Brand: A Dramatic Poem in Five Acts, London: William Heinemann, page 95:

Even when Luther purged, / Trimmed the sacred fire, / Sternlier Calvin urged, / Then did he expire.

a. 1925, Manmohan Ghose, edited by Lotika Ghose, Adam Alarmed in Paradise: An Epic of Eden During The Great War (Collected Poems; IV), [Kolkata]: University of Calcutta, published 1977, book I, canto VI, page 69:

NOW not alone against a world on fire / Must preparation speed. Sure, the great gun / Must be supplied ton on unnumbered ton / Of quick munition. Faster, farther, higher / The deadly plane must flash, and the entire / Substance and spirit of the land be won / For that impregnable, last bastion / Which freedom’s dear necessities require. / But, sternlier still, for this we must prepare: / To cast out devils, yet refuse to be / Devils in turn; […]

1943 July 21, Leslie Pinckney Hill, “Of Preparedness”, in Charles Clayton Morrison, editor, The Christian Century, Chicago, Ill.: Christian Century Press, page 845, column 2:

Checking the glorious hand’s flaunting of lovelier leisure, now for some stubborner work sternlier it fashions the stone.

1946, Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by J[ames] B[lair] Leishman, Sonnets to Orpheus, 2nd edition, London: The Hogarth Press, […], published 1949, section X, page 107:

(rare, poetic) comparative form of sternly: more sternly