like a man possessed

like a man possessed (comparative more like a man possessed, superlative most like a man possessed)

more like a man possessed (comparative)
most like a man possessed (superlative)

(idiomatic, simile, colloquial) In a energetic or uncontrolled way.


nuts to butts

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I’m a bastard jewboy in the promised land
with a big hairy ass and a pocket full of sand
livin’ nuts to butts and asshole to bell

1984 May 4, Jon Sugar, “A Sweet and Sonr Look at Jon Sugar”, in Alex MacDonald, Bay Area Reporter, volume XIV, number 21, page 22:

Lawrence Rich gave away his iced tea and forced down two grape drinks before lining up "nuts to butts" to leave the room.

1988 October 28, James M. Shannon, “Narrative” (chapter VI), in The Report of the Investigation of Attorney General James M. Shannon of the Class 12 Experience at the Edward W. Connelly Criminal Justice Training Center, Agawam, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office, page 63:

Like where else could he go? We’re harnessed together nuts to butts.

2003, Rita M. Ippoliti, “Tandem City” (chapter 6), in Falling into Place, Kryos Publishing, page 128:

Another yelled out, “Let me see nuts to butts, c'mon, people, nuts to butts, ladies! This ain't fucking gay, get used to it now! Nuts to butts!”

2011, Dara Odoe Sok, Engagement in Peril, Xlibris, page 504:

The vehicles were stacked nuts to butts, with little room to pass between them.

2017, Walt Browning, Charlie's Requiem: Resistance, →ISBN, page 15:

Ironically, I found myself playing peacekeeper, urging elderly English ladies to respect the line, much like I would back in Dehli’s while disembarking from airplanes where people found the need to stand “nuts to butts” while pushing forward.

2023 September 27, Maximilian Sebastian Sterling, “Rethinking the Stereotype: The English and Queuing Misconceptions”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2024-04-25:

(originally military, chiefly of people) Closely one behind the other.

Many had never ridden on a train before and were excited as children. They piled in willy-nilly, everywhere, finding room where they could. It was so crowded that some had to stand up in the aisles, nuts to butts, but they didn’t mind.

2005, Richard Lee Pulgham, The Hogs of Cold Harbor: The Civil War Saga of Private Johnny Hess, CSA, Whitmore Publishing Co., page 93:

“When I got down there they already had about 20 crazy fuckers packed together nuts to butts in the same cell smellin’ like fart. I was like, get me the fuck outta here.”

2008, Nick Garafola, Hot Metal Boys, Cold Piece Books, page 48:

De La Soul, the iconic Long Island hip-hop trio, performed last Saturday to a capacity crowd at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom. It was "nuts-to-butts crowded," as my Tennessee friends like to say.

2014 March 17, Mark Sanders, “Denver fans explain why De La Soul still matters”, in Westword, archived from the original on 2024-04-25:

If it had not been a weekend, the borough would have been quieter. Moreover, the morning crowd would have soon been out, and the area overwhelmed with commuters walking, biking, and driving to work, or packed nuts to butts on public transportation.

2017, William Hunter, Sanction, […], →ISBN, page 47:

Maybe it does take a village. But what if the damned village in question is nuts to butts full of idiots? —Lieutenant Jack Rivera

2018, Lois Greiman, Unsweetened, NYLA, page 227:

There's no point in arguing, they believe they are superior and anyone who doesn't live nuts to butts in an overcrowded city is stupid.

2024 June 27, @dane_berggren, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-21:

(by extension) Crowdedly, tightly, compactly.


panically

en-adv

panically (comparative more panically, superlative most panically)

more panically (comparative)
most panically (superlative)

A few seconds later, Trevor along with the rest of the squad emerge from the back room panically trying to run out with the supplies in their hands.

2012, S. A. Lowry, Nightmare-Z, page 177:

So I applied a small amount of cream under my right cheek. What I felt shortly afterwards was enough to hectically pull the water bottle out of my bag and wash off the cream panically.

2023, Iris Seidenstricker, Saving My Skin, page 104:

(rare, nonstandard) In a panicky manner.


ponderably

ponderably (comparative more ponderably, superlative most ponderably)

more ponderably (comparative)
most ponderably (superlative)


recognizedly

recognizedly (comparative more recognizedly, superlative most recognizedly)

more recognizedly (comparative)
most recognizedly (superlative)

The military was recognizedly underfunded.

In a manner that is recognized, of which people are aware.


by common consent

By consensus; in a universally agreed manner.


thickeningly

thickeningly (comparative more thickeningly, superlative most thickeningly)

more thickeningly (comparative)
most thickeningly (superlative)


broadeningly

broadeningly (comparative more broadeningly, superlative most broadeningly)

more broadeningly (comparative)
most broadeningly (superlative)


wideningly

wideningly (comparative more wideningly, superlative most wideningly)

more wideningly (comparative)
most wideningly (superlative)


attributably

Attributably to your heart as its doing, it pumps blood through your body.

2008, Ernest Sosa, Jaekwon Kim, Jeremy Fantl, Epistemology: An Anthology, page 486:

Take a case in which, while dreaming, I still happen to be right in my belief that I face a fire. In that case I would not be right attributably to my perception.

2012, Kelly James Clark, Michael Rea, Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind, page 114:

I am not sure, especially if there is a distinction between the attributably non-negative and the positive.

2017, Abrol Fairweather, Mark Alfano, Epistemic Situationism, page 144:

A performance is apt if, and only if, it is correct attributably to a competence exercised by the performer, in conditions appropriate for its exercise.

2022, Yong Huang, Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy, page 122:

In a manner that can be attributed (to something)


shrunkenly

shrunkenly (comparative more shrunkenly, superlative most shrunkenly)

more shrunkenly (comparative)
most shrunkenly (superlative)


unreformably

unreformably (comparative more unreformably, superlative most unreformably)

more unreformably (comparative)
most unreformably (superlative)


when shrimps whistle

Calque of Russian когда рак (на горе) свистнет (kogda rak (na gore) svistnet, “when the crawfish whistles (on the mountain)”)

calque

когда рак на горе свистнет

когда рак (на горе) свистнет

You will catch her smiling at you, as Khruschchev used to say, when shrimps whistle. I call for a bowl of kasha and she brings it to the table. The cabbage soup is thickened with flour, a lump of meat swimming on the surface of the broth. Never mind the kasha, and I push it away. The babushka takes[…]

2017 July 5, Francis R. Nicosia, The Three Romes: Moscow, Constantinople, and Rome, Routledge, →ISBN, page 64:

These things will happen when shrimps whistle. Individuals and groups with divergent concepts of meaning and truth are likely to regard each other as prevaricators even when doing their respective best to be sincere.

1965, Charles Burton Marshall, The Exercise of Sovereignty: Papers on Foreign Policy, page 110:

(in Russian contexts) When pigs fly; never.


diatopically

en-adv

diatopically (comparative more diatopically, superlative most diatopically)

more diatopically (comparative)
most diatopically (superlative)

First, a large-scale corpus of material is needed, both diachronically and diatopically arrayed and allowing in its organization and compilation for the identification of correlations with phenomena traditionally treated as extralinguistic, e.g. genre, script, etc.

1999, Simon Horobin, Jeremy Smith, “A Database of Middle English Spelling”, in Literary and Linguistic Computing, volume 14, number 3, page 360:

. Concerning the spirantization of /b/, /d/ and /g/, it should be noted that it shows a much more restricted diffusion throughout the region diatopically.

2013, Simonetta Montemagni, Martijn Wieling, Bob de Jonge, John Nerbonne, “Synchronic patterns of Tuscan phonetic variation and diachronic change: Evidence from a dialectometric study”, in Literary and Linguistic Computing, volume 28, number 1, page 159:

If we know that nature is deeply culturalized and culture deeply naturalized (as Morin has maintained since the 1950s and the ontological turn in anthropology has been discussing since the 1990s), building our semiotic theory of the face on the basis of the common sense dichotomy between nature and culture would prevent us from truly comprehending the axiologies and ideologies of the face spread diachronically and diatopically.

2022 September, Massimo Roberto Beato, “From Mask to Flesh and Back: A Semiotic Analysis of the Actor's Face Between Theatre and Cinema.”, in Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, volume 41, number 4, page 756:

(chiefly phonetics) Occurring over or changing with space; geographically.


whitherso

And going whitherso the wild path went, / A two hours' journeying brought him, wellnigh spent / With toiling upwards, to a mountain pass, […]

1892, William Watson, The Prince's Quest: And Other Poems, page 89:


hindforemost

Coordinate term: headforemost


unpastorally

unpastorally (comparative more unpastorally, superlative most unpastorally)

more unpastorally (comparative)
most unpastorally (superlative)


tubally

In the manner of, or by means of, a tube.


eyeball-to-eyeball

eyeball to eyeball
eyeball to eyeball#English


abluster

"Cer—" began Hunnewell, and then leaped to his feet, all abluster with temper and uncertainty.

2020, Ernest Haycox, August Nemo, Essential Novelists - Ernest Haycox:

S'bin a treat, t'see him stalled abluster by Coxen.

2020, Gilbert and Valerie Lewthwaite, Mari's Way, page 165:

Frasham entered the café with great strides all abluster, making the tiny bell spring on its gantry above the door.

2021, Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary:


accretively

accretively (comparative more accretively, superlative most accretively)

more accretively (comparative)
most accretively (superlative)

That is to say , books on science and mathematics would naturally be propagated accretively, with the addition of numerous anonymous updates, though no one maintained a revision history.

2007, C. K. Raju, Cultural Foundations of Mathematics, page 45:


a lottle

"Do you like me?" / "A lottle". / His head tipped, "a lottle?" / "Well, you see, it's like a little, but it's actually a lot," I whispered.

Or maybe a lottle? What the actual fuck is wrong with me? We both know that's not a real word.

2021 September 29, Xavier Neal, Picnic Perfect: A Small Town Romantic Comedy, Xavier Neal, page 40:

Of course, it's not unusual that lots of a little should lead to a lot - a 'lottle'.

2009, Peter Cave, This Sentence is False - An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes, →ISBN, page 77:

(humorous) something that is more than a little but less than a lot.


globalistically

globalistically (comparative more globalistically, superlative most globalistically)

more globalistically (comparative)
most globalistically (superlative)


phoniatrically

In terms of, or by means of, phoniatrics.


chemospecifically

describes a reaction or process that targets, with precision and selectivity on a molecular level, a specific functional group or site within a molecule.


ungraphically

ungraphically (comparative more ungraphically, superlative most ungraphically)

more ungraphically (comparative)
most ungraphically (superlative)


the sigma

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Popularized by the "Erm, What the Sigma?" meme around March 2024, although usage dates back to 2023.

What the sigma is he doing to that dog?

How in the sigma are we meant to stop climate change?

Erm what the sigma ohio🗿🍷 😱 we've lost another one boys 😔😢 Dattebayo 👊

2023 August 7, @SleepyWillow07, Twitter:

Erm what the sigma is that pic on the top right

2024 April 30, u/SuhNih, “Been seeing some hypocrisy from my side lately”, in Reddit, r/PoliticalCompassMemes, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:

Where the sigma is Russia (my country)

2024 May 6, u/PopTartPlayz, “Trying to get a comment from every country: Part 2!”, in Reddit, r/JackSucksAtGeography, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:

how in the sigma are you still sane with that charm glowing like that

2024 May 20, u/Bendr6565, “After an awful day of ranked, Siege timing has told me to just get off already”, in Reddit, r/Rainbow6, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:

(slang, humorous) Used for emphasis after an interrogative word or relative pronoun.


the skibidi

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Popularized by the "Erm, What the Sigma?" meme which originated around March 2024, although usage dates back to 2020.

What the skibidi is she doing to that cat?

How the skibidi am I supposed to come up with this month's rent?

yea may I just ask what the skibidi pa pa fuck was going on today? Suddenly my stream was exploding and I have no clue why. Send emotional help. 2 digit viewers is such a fucking milestone for me xD

what the skibidi

2024 April 16, u/slimeycoomer, “Wordington content”, in Reddit, r/wordington, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:

KANYE PREDICTED ALPHA SIGMAS IN 2004, WHAT THE SKIBIDI⁉⁉⁉⁉⁉

2024 April 20, u/Quiet-Chest-619, “Ye invented every genre. Including brain rot 😭”, in Reddit, r/Kanye, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:

how the skibidi do i get the camera to tilt on xbox? (I'm almost an adult idk why I said skibidi)

2024 April 26, u/Redrabbit1001YT, “Cinematic camera is a god send I never asked for. I love this feature”, in Reddit, r/trailmakers, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:

Where the skibidi did you go?

2024 May 16, u/Real_Soul_Warrior, “Episode one: Lost”, in Reddit, r/holowknite, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:


pestily

pestily (comparative more pestily, superlative most pestily)

more pestily (comparative)
most pestily (superlative)


peatily

peatily (comparative more peatily, superlative most peatily)

more peatily (comparative)
most peatily (superlative)


baffledly

baffledly (comparative more baffledly, superlative most baffledly)

more baffledly (comparative)
most baffledly (superlative)


lackingly

lackingly (comparative more lackingly, superlative most lackingly)

more lackingly (comparative)
most lackingly (superlative)

Someone lackingly said to me that President Reagan and Prime Minister Maroney should be able to speak together very well because they both speak on northern telecoms, a Canadian company system.

1988, Mastering the World Economy: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, January 20, and 22, 1987, United States Government Publishing Office, page 42:

When something receives the Real Being completely, its knowledge is also complete. When something receives the Real Being slightly and lackingly, its knowledge is little in itself.

2000 August, Sachiko Murata, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm, State University of New York Press, page 203:

Through our own lack of honor as Americans, we have allowed such as the above to become commonplace in our society, for whatever reason, be it the parents of this nation lackingly doing their job’s, or the many forces outside of the home, few of our citizenry have had the honor to stand and say enough is enough.

2005, D. William, Living from with In: A Question of Balance, Trafford Publishing, page 20:

peculiar beginnings... somewhat lackingly devoid of departure day thrill and excitement. was i too prepared too early?

2011 August, James Timberlake, Sons of Thunder, AuthorHouse, page 1:

In other words, the message received in dreams, or obtained parabolically, always points covertly and “lackingly,” to our intersubjective relations.

2012 February, Gila Safran Naveh, Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations: From "Apples of Gold in Silver Settings" to "Imperial Messages", State University of New York Press, page 221:

An unhealthy (lackingly consumed) amount of sugars or unhealthy (excessive), fat intake can lead to lower levels of insulin.

2022, Clark Ranfield, Hair Loss: Ultimate Guide To Learn About Hair Loss Prevention Methods And Regrowth Treatment (Natural Hair Growth Secrets & Hair Loss Cure), page 41:


ass over tin cups

ass over teakettle
ass over teakettle#English

(Canada, US) Synonym of ass over teakettle


dehiscently

dehiscently (comparative more dehiscently, superlative most dehiscently)

more dehiscently (comparative)
most dehiscently (superlative)


diglossally

diglossally (comparative more diglossally, superlative most diglossally)

more diglossally (comparative)
most diglossally (superlative)


vulgarily

vulgarily (comparative more vulgarily, superlative most vulgarily)

more vulgarily (comparative)
most vulgarily (superlative)


shieldedly

shieldedly (comparative more shieldedly, superlative most shieldedly)

more shieldedly (comparative)
most shieldedly (superlative)

Toka put Roya shieldedly ahead of him. The party started up.

1945 October, J. W. Pelkie, “King of the Dinosaurs”, in Leroy Yerxa, editor, Fantastic Adventures, volume 7, number 4, Chapter XXI, page 52:

As we drove down the ramp from the boat / The sun flashed once / Or through hand-shieldedly twice;

1958 August, James Dickey, “Dover: Believing in Kings”, in Poetry, volume 92, number 5, page 283:

Police condem opponents, readily confuse arbitrary, tentative political law with moral good, and `shieldedly' pursue to suffer others as if they are only loving others.

2000 July 25, Nomen Nescio, “Conservative or Liberal”, in alt.christnet.theology (Usenet):

He might have been struck down in public - at a theatre or dining out somewhere; instead of in his own place, quietly and shieldedly.

2007, Rudyard Kipling, “A Rottingdean Funeral: Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, June 1898”, in David Arscott, compiler, A Sussex Kipling: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, Pomegranate Press, page 18:

(rare) In a shielded manner; protectedly


mysterically

mysterically (comparative more mysterically, superlative most mysterically)

more mysterically (comparative)
most mysterically (superlative)

The undeveloped or mysterically confused thought which exists in savages is fully exemplified in the childish or crazy atavistic anthropomorphism and symbolism so prevalent among degenerates.

1911 May, “Insanity and the Art of the Borderland”, in The International Studio, volume 32, number 171, page 32:


ludibriously

ludibriously (comparative more ludibriously, superlative most ludibriously)

more ludibriously (comparative)
most ludibriously (superlative)

If any ſilly fellow vſing Becanes words, ſhould with Becan anſwer thus; It is ridiculous to compare the Kings ſcullian, vvith the King : ſhould he not, as a ridiculous aſſe, be ludibriouſly exploded?

1614, Richard Harris, The English Concord, In Answer to Becane's English Jarre: Together with a Reply to Becane's Examen of the English Concord., Mat. Lownes, page 87:

But the Ammonites thought to put a jeere upon the Jewiſh Religion, even as ſome of late have ludibriouſly abuſed thoſe holy Garments, and Bookes, and Veſſells, which we uſe in the ſervice of God.

1643, John Bramhall, A Sermon Preached in Yorke Minster, Before His Excelience the Marques of Newcastle, Being Then Ready to Meet the Scotch Army, January, 28. 1643., Stephen Bulkley, page 6:

ſurely neither Lucian, nor Corn: Agrippa with his Aſſe, could ever treat of holy things more ludibriouſly, or expoſe the ſacred word of God to more ſcorn then this man doth: […]

1654, John Crandon, chapter III, in Mr. Baxter's Aphorisms Exorized and Authorized, Math:Simmons, page 40:

The holy Name and Attributes of the DEITY are vilified in an unexampled Manner; the Blessed Spirit of God is ludibriouſly inſulted by a Repetition of the moſt carnal Obſcenities in the Form of a Suplication; […]

1763, John Kidgell, A Genuine and Succinct Narrative of a Scandalous, Obscene, and Exceedingly Profane Libel, Entitled, An Essay on Woman, As Also, of Other Poetical Pieces, Containing The Moſt Atrocious Blasphemies., page 13:


eyeingly

eyeingly (comparative more eyeingly, superlative most eyeingly)

more eyeingly (comparative)
most eyeingly (superlative)

It would seem that the devil employs all his energies in Rome at misrepresentation and falsehood, and eyeingly awaits a papal word as would a dog a bone from the table of his master.

1909 May 20, “Pius X and Woman’s Duties”, in Catholic Union and Times, volume XXXVIII, number 8, Buffalo, N.Y.: The Buffalo Catholic Publication Company, page 4, column 2:

Montanan Has Speed, Endurance and Judge of Pace to Accomplish Feat, Mentor Believes; Deacon Gil Dodds Looks Eyeingly at Honor

1942 June 23, “Rice Pointed To as Prospect for Long-Dreamed-of Mile Run in 4 Minutes: Jack Ryder, Veteran Coach Of Boston, Urges Test”, in Great Falls Tribune, 58th year, Great Falls, Mont., page 9, columns 1–2:

Jimmie felt like a snoop, and like one of the most vulgar sort, who, while enjoying the hospitality of your house, go about silently, eyeingly pricing the worth of everything, including your family relationships.

1958, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, chapter 26, in A Gentleman Called (G.K. Hall Large Print Book Series), Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co., published 1990, →ISBN, page 182:

At the present time, they are waiting patiently and eyeingly to see just who their opponent will be.

1959 September 4, Joe Dolan, “Home Reporter Sports: Little League World Series Begins Monday”, in Bay Ridge Home Reporter, 7th year, number 3, Brooklyn, N.Y., page eight, column 2:

‘Let’s get the facts straight. If there’s any shilly-shallying about what they are, someone has to find out.’ / He thought for a moment and looked up eyeingly. ‘That might be a job, if ever there was one, for our friends in the United Nations.’

1969, Ronald W[illiam] Clark, “Between War and Peace”, in The Last Year of the Old World: A Fiction of History, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1970, →ISBN, part II (April–May 1946), page 155:


trancily

trancily (comparative more trancily, superlative most trancily)

more trancily (comparative)
most trancily (superlative)

On Christmas morning the three of them went to church, and Mrs Shannon, being deeply affected by the carols, go her annual religious mania, and walked trancily down the road afterwards, talking about the peaceful life of a nun.

1940, Monica Dickens, Mariana, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, published 1950, page 256:

Louise gazed trancily down the hall, but then seemed to recognise something — the modern-art clock on the wall, maybe.

2010, Lucy Dillon, Walking Back to Happiness, London: Hodder, →ISBN, page 254:

The truth is that not all of Brötzmann's output is difficult listening. This 2022 live performance with the Gnawa master Majid Bekkas and the drummer Hamid Drake is even trancily soothing.

2023 July 5, David A. Graham, “How Musk and Biden Are Changing the Media”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-15:

Which causes or results from a trance (a dazed or unconscious condition).


awaitingly

awaitingly (comparative more awaitingly, superlative most awaitingly)

more awaitingly (comparative)
most awaitingly (superlative)

“But you ’re in San Francisco now. Where are you stopping?” He took up a pencil and held it over a memorandum pad awaitingly.

1897, Bret Harte, chapter I, in Three Partners or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], pages 70–71:

[…] hoping to hear from you soon I am yours awaitingly ⸺ ⸺.

1902 October 13, R. E. Sterling, quoting a man in Texas, “Kansas Department”, in The Northwestern Miller, volume 54, number 16, Minneapolis, Minn.: The Miller Publishing Co., published 1902 October 15, page 795, column 4:

Quia, v. Sit down awaitingly (used in perf.), as men when some work is about to be done, a case to be tried, or when a person sits down at any spot awaiting the passage of somebody (ela form and ace.) expected; […]

1905, Alfred T. Bryant, “Qula, v.”, in A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation, a Revised Orthography and Derivations and Cognate Words from Many Languages; […], Maritzburg, Durban: […] P. Davis & Sons, […], page 547, column 1:

“Awaitingly, with the sweetest anxiety, / “Fannie ⸺.”

1918 January, Fannie, quotee, “No Wonder Managers Suffer from Dyspepsia!”, in Eugene V[alentine] Brewster, editor, Motion Picture Magazine, volume XIV, number 12, Brooklyn, N.Y.: The M. P. Publishing Co., page 161, column 1:

[T]he only way in which the making-present itself can meet up with anything unsuitable, is by already operating in such a way as to retain awaitingly that which has an involvement in something. To say that making-present gets ‘held up’ is to say that in its unity with the awaiting which retains, it diverts itself into itself more and more, […]

1962, Martin Heidegger, translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Being and Time, New York, N.Y., Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, page 406:

We can only be in many of our bodily, emotional, thinking or artistic ways if we reflex round our being altered and thrown into them by independent others. Such lines of contact reach out only by awaitingly being out there within the space of others who might enliven them.

1996, Samuel B. Mallin, “The Athletes’ Vase”, in Art Line Thought (Contributions to Phenomenology; 21), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, book II (The Minoan and the Philosophical), chapter I (Swirling Beyond Our Time: Along Minoan and Nazcan Lines), page 138:

Ed was gripped by simultaneous panic and excitement, which he quelled by walking through the flat’s narrow hallway to his sitting-room/study next door, where his computer screen glowed awaitingly.

2008, Robyn Sisman, chapter 11, in A Hollywood Ending, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 131:


ashamingly

ashamingly (comparative more ashamingly, superlative most ashamingly)

more ashamingly (comparative)
most ashamingly (superlative)

“Where you been, my dear roommate to-night, after supper? Did you have daily exchange of stories with your girl?” / “No, Yeah, little bit.” He hesitated, but not ashamingly, and he looked feeling good.

1924 February, Richard Shiokawa, “I Said That College is a Treasure Island, Why?”, in Hal A. Oliver, editor, The Trinity Archive, volume XXXVI, number 5, Durham, N.C.: The Senior Class of Trinity College, page 234, column 1:

The entire historic jigsaw puzzle had too many pieces that didn’t fit; too confusing for us to understand or ashamingly disgraceful for us to want to understand. We wanted the Vietnam veteran to politely go away — to get lost.

1981 April 22, “Belated ‘welcome home’ to Vietnam veterans”, in The Romulus Roman, volume 96, number 2, Wayne, Mich.: Associated Newspapers, Inc., page A-14, column 1:

“Germans only” is an ashamingly frequent requirement. But most of Frau Heiermeier’s customers are foreign students.

1989 October 29 [1989 October 13], Dirk Kurbjuweit, “Student life: It’s still not too bad — but only if you can find a place to live”, in The German Tribune: A Weekly Review of the German Press, number 1393, →ISSN, page 12, column 3:

The system of measures applied against alcoholism in Hungary […] Restricted unemployment aid or allowance (often ashamingly low), nothing more

1997, Dharam P. Agarwal, Béla Buda, Andrew E. Czeizel, H. Werner Goedde, “Economic Aspects of Alcohol Control Policies in Hungary”, in Alcohol Consumption and Alcoholism in Hungary: Ethnocultural, Epidemiological and Biomedical Aspects, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, part III (Epidemiology of Alcoholism), chapter 5 (Epidemiology of Alcoholism in Hungary), page 65:

Ashamingly, the only quantum fields that we fully understand to date in four dimensions are free quantum fields on four-dimensional Minkowski space. Formulated more provocatively: In four dimensions we only understand an (infinite) collection of uncoupled harmonic oscillators on Minkowski space !

2001 October 5, T[homas] Thiemann, “Why Quantum Gravity in the 21st Century ?”, in Introduction to Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity, →OCLC, arXiv, Introduction, subsection 1 (Defining Quantum Gravity), page 10:


non-interactively

Alternative spelling of noninteractively.


islandwards

(uncommon) islandward; towards an island.


brookward

Did you ever go a fishing ? If you have not, I advise you to buy a rod and line, and start brookward on such an adventure;

1860, Joseph Holt Ingraham (writer), “Letter XX”, in The Sunny South; or, The Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of the Sugar and the Cotton, G. G. Evans Publisher, page 159:

"'T won't be Tryphosy Clark that 'll hev the buyin' of it, nor yet the makin'," said the bride-elect, as she rose and led the promised way, brookward.

1880, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “The Dam Pasture” (chapter XVII), in Odd, or Even?, Houghton, Osgood and Company, page 167:

[…] when every wee water-course seems to snicker gleefully as it romps along bound on business brookward.

1897 May 5, Ed. W. Sandys, “Two Days' Trout-Fishing”, in Outing, volume XXX, number 2, page 172:

(rare) In the direction of a brook, toward a brook.


accursingly

accursingly (comparative more accursingly, superlative most accursingly)

more accursingly (comparative)
most accursingly (superlative)

No drunkard shall ever accursingly say / That I ever thawrted^([sic]) his soul’s destiny, / For a moment I could not the thought endure / That my life’s habits made his life impure, / If all other actions of mine were so free, / That mainly they each would bear scrutiny, / Yet how could I ever such sad truth abide, / If the drunkard through me from the truth turned aside.

1873 August 26, Pharpar [pseudonym], “Peccavi; or The Moderator’s Surrender”, in The Bacup Times, and Rossendale Advertiser, number 435, Bacup, Lancs., published 1873 September 6, Poetry section, page 7, column 1:

They fled at once, and would have escaped undiscovered had not two pet ravens of the murdered Count followed and hovered over them, croaking most accursingly as far as Zurich, where the attention of the citizens was attracted to the unusual sight, and the villains were arrested and finally executed.

1901 February, Jane Nearlein, “The Land of William Tell”, in Overland Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine of the West, volume XXXVII, number 2, San Francisco, Calif.: Frederick Marriott, pages 714–715:

Mr. Kipling is easily forgiven because of his famous, popular writings; but the fact that his poem was snarlingly and accursingly hurled at us, who knew it not, nor cared to know it, can not be easily forgotten nor forgiven.

1926 October 21, an Eaglet [pseudonym], “A Twisted Tale (With no Apologies to Kipling)”, in The Watchtower, volume IV, number 5, Macon, Ga.: […] [T]he students of Wesleyan College, […], page 2, column 3:

“Stephen, you go over there and find what he threw away.” The youth climbed the rail fence. His search was brief; the bottle was easily seen against the brown earth of the field. He handed it accursingly to his father.

1927 July 7, Michael J. Phillips, “Cedar Swamp”, in The Okfuskee County News, volume XXIII, number 42, Okemah, Okla., chapter II, page two, column 6:

Two heads are said to be better than one, and perhaps seeing oneself in the mirror doubles the the^([sic]) concentration. Either that or the reflection stares accursingly and jolts the mind into arriving at a decision.

1955 October 29, Tom Sims (King Features Syndicate, Inc.), “Good Morning”, in Sand Mountain Reporter, volume 1, number 62, Albertville, Ala., page 1, column 5:

“How,” I asked accursingly, “have you managed to keep your figure? What’s your secret?”

1965 October 21, Mary Carpenter, “Advertisement: I was so envious of her figure… then she told me how she discovered the Mrs. Magics at Orchard House”, in The Coventry Evening Telegraph, 75th year, number 23,127, Coventry, West Midlands, section “The Secret”, page 9, column 4:

One day, when he was safely at work, I decided to make a dent in the old newspapers nestled on closet shelves along with old scrapbooks and letters he wrote his parents from camp. I had just gotten down some 50 pounds worth chronicling such events as the start of World War II when in he walked, home early for the first time in months. “What,” he demanded accursingly, “do you have those out for?”

1969 October 17, Joy Stilley, “Husband Is the One Who Is the Family Hoarder”, in F. P. Bohn, W[illia]m H. Plummer, editors, The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, volume LX, number 244, Chillicothe, Mo.: Chillicothe Publishing Co., page 5, columns 1–2:

And then I realized she was a woman. Valerie was on her bed with another woman. Valerie sat up and pulled herself away from the woman who was most reluctant to let her go. / “This is Natalie Birdwell,” Valerie said shakily. “A friend of mine.” / “That I can see,” I said dryly. “But a woman?” / Natalie sat up, too. She was wearing a green blouse and a dark green pantsuit. “I thought she knew about you,” she said accursingly to Valerie.

1979, Dee Raymond, “A Love Affair: Part 2”, in Carol Beecroft, editor, Transvestia: For the Heterosexual Crossdresser, volume XVII, number 101, Tulare, Calif.: Chevalier Publications, page 18:

What an example Jesus is to us in our suffering! How we ought to strive to follow Him in His quiet endurance! He spoke only seven times in six hours; He started and He finished with a prayer. Yet today how often, how impassionately, how accursingly people moan and shriek when they suffer!

1982 March 31, Christ Lutheran Church, “The Cup at Calvary”, in The Daily Review, volume 20, number 63, Morgan City, La., page 7, column 1:


islandward

Once, indeed, a submarine cable was laid from Cape Cod to Nantucket ; but the stupid skipper of a coasting vessel fished it to the surface with his anchor, and, vexed at the little trouble it had caused him, severed it with his axe, and the magnetic current flowed no more islandward.

1868 September 5, “Nantucket”, in Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education, volume 2, page 286:

Soon after, however, we met a canoe, with a young fellow at the paddle, bowling islandward and homeward with a fair wind.

1873 October 2, Charles Alfred Pillsbury, “Down the Potomac”, in Forest and Stream, volume I, number 8, page 113:

It was not until centuries later, when the ships of the white invader ploughed their way islandward, that flies and mosquitoes, centipedes and scorpions, and a host of insect pests, large and small, were introduced to temper the delights of the island paradise for all future time.

1903, W. H. Henshaw, “A Sea-Serpent in Hawaii”, in Thomas George Thrum, compiler, Hawaiian Annual and Almanac, Thomas George Thrum, page 68:

When on the East the sheer bright star arose / that tells of coming Dawn, the ship made landfall / and came up islandward in the dim of night.

1974, Homer, “The Return”, in Robert Fitzgerald, transl., edited by Wilfred Thomas Jewkes, Man the Voyager, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 158:

In the direction of an island, toward an island.


from behind

(slang, sex, of a sex act) Engaged in the missionary position, usually anal sex.


syllabatim

By one syllable at a time; syllable by syllable.


bursally

Another bursal function is to permit bursally processed cells to switch from producing immunoglobulin-M ( IgM ) to immunoglobulin-G (IgG).

1979, Avian Diseases - Volume 23, page 291:

Immunoglobulin G (IgG = IgY) is the most abundant isotype of antibody in circulation and is synthesized by bursally derived (B–) lymphocytes (Warret al. 1995).

2008, Victor Apanius, Mark A. Westbrock, David J. Anderson, Reproduction and Immune Homeostatis in a Long-lived Seabird, the Nazca Booby (Sula granti), page 4:


spicately

spicately (comparative more spicately, superlative most spicately)

more spicately (comparative)
most spicately (superlative)

Leaves dilated, verticillate or alternate flowers; racemose or spicately racemose.

1839, Robert Sweet, F.L.S., edited by George Don, F.L.S., SWEET'S HORTUS BRITANNICUS; OR, A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE PLANTS INDIGENOUS OR CULTIVATED IN THE GARDENS OF GREAT BRITAIN, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE NATURAL SYSTEM, WITH THE GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES ENGLISH NAMES ACCENTUATION DERIVATION OF GENERIC NAMES NATIVE COUNTRY YEAR OF INTRODUCTION TIME OF FLOWERING COLOUR OF FLOWERS MODE OF GROWTH DURATION REFERENCES TO THE BEST FIGURES THE MOST USEFUL SYNONYMES THE LINNEAN CLASS AND ORDER TO WHICH EACH GENUS BELONGS, Third edition, London: James Ridgeway, page 513:

The arrangement of individual inflorescence units is highly variable in Nivenia and Aristea but the ancestral condition is most likely racemose (Goldblatt, 1993a,b) with lateral inflorescences borne on short lateral branches (sessile lateral branches, thus spicately arranged, are considered homologous)

2004 January, Goldblatt, Peter, Le Thomas, Annick, Suárez-Cervera, Maria, “Phylogeny of the Afro-Madagascan Aristea (Iridaceae) revisited in the light of new data on pollen morphology.”, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, volume 144, number 1, Appendix (section 16), page 67:

They consist of spicately or paniculately arranged glomerules of flowers.

2024 June 7, Wikipedia contributors, “Chenopodium”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

(botany) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.


not here for a haircut

'Beer?' his father said. 'I'm not here for a haircut,' Jack shoots back.

2012, University of Sydney students, Sparks: The University of Sydney Student Anthology 2012, DARLINGTON PRESS, →ISBN, page 136:

What else is coming up for the station in 2016?
Now that would be telling.
Well you're not here for a haircut, Chief...

2016 April 6, Bob Gordon, “Festival Focus: RTRFM's In The Pines”, in theMusic.com.au:

Oi, back to work. You're not here for a haircut, Chippy.

2022 June 18, Joe Brumm, “Tradies”, in Bluey, season 3, episode 32, spoken by Sparky (Mick Malloy):

(Australia) Here for a specific reason; having a task that must be done.


purrfectly

purrfectly (comparative more purrfectly, superlative most purrfectly)

more purrfectly (comparative)
most purrfectly (superlative)

From perfectly with the first syllable altered to purr. Compare purrfect.

Hello Kitty Hello Everything! Abrams Purrfectly pretty collectibles

2005, “Action/Adventure”, in Books for the Teen Age 2005, 76th edition, New York, N.Y.: New York Public Library, →ISBN, page 36, column 3:

There was a purrfectly good bowl of food back at the house.

2007, Tim Steffen, Susan Ann Thornton, “Into the Woods”, in Saving Faith: The Adventures of Baby Cat in Cherry Grove, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 29:

Cats and basketball may not seem like a good mix, but for one Chicago-area man, they go together, um, purr'''fectly.

2015 June 25, Marissa Payne, “Hoops is catnip for ‘NBA Catwatch’”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-24:

(colloquial, humorous) Perfectly, in contexts relating to cats.


purrfectly

An Amurrcan Girl. Father, see up there; there’s Byron. Did you erver see such a purrfectly beautiful face?

1891 January 24, [Thomas Anstey Guthrie], “Voces Populi. At the Guelph Exhibition.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume C, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. […], page 40, column 2:

We have heard of a Writer to the Signet who spoke such exceedingly high English that a professional brother bluntly pronounced his conversation to be “purrfectly unintelligible.”

1898 June, “Among the Young Lions”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIII, number DCCCCXCII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., […], page 738, column 2:

“We are purrfectly sober,” said Murphy, as if answering an accusation.

1899, W[illiam] F[ry] Shannon, “A Fight in the Dark”, in The Mess Deck, London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. […], page 185:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


sternliest

I tooke delights / In plucking Apples from t’Heſperian Trees, / Which Eating, I grew Learn’d: adde to All theſe / My Priuate Readings, which more School’d my Soule, / Then Tutors, when they ſternliest did Controll / With Frownes or Rods: […]

1620, Tho[mas] Dekker, “The Worme of Conscience”, in Dekker His Dreame. In Which, Beeing Rapt with a Poeticall Enthusiasme, the Great Volumes of Heauen and Hell to Him Were Opened, in Which He Read Many Wonderfull Things., London: Nicholas Okes, →OCLC, page 35:

The law is holier than a sage’s prayer; / The godlike power bestowed on men demands of them a godlike care; / And noblest gifts, if basely used, will sternliest avenge the wrong, / And grind with slavish pangs the slave whom once they made divinely strong.

1837 November, [John Sterling], “[Poetry by our New Contributor.] Mirabeau.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XLII, number CCLXV, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 594:

In them [women], hypocrisy itself can charm: / It makes our young devotion doubly warm, / Draws while it drives, lures while it whispers “Go!” / Means “Yes!” when sternliest it answers “No!” / Request a kiss—at once a negative / Their lips of coral sternly frame!—but if / You note their eyes, the answer there belies it, / And he who doubts me, well, suppose he tries it?

1889, Arthur Bennett, “The Inexplicable Sex”, in The Music of My Heart, Manchester: Palmer & Howe, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 123:

None sang of Love more nobly; few as well; / Of Friendship none with pathos so profound; / Of Duty sternliest-proved when myrtle-crowned; / Of English grove and rivulet, mead and dell: […]

1892 November, Aubrey [Thomas] de Vere, “[To [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson: The Tributes of His Friends] The Poet”, in James [Thomas] Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, volume XXXII, number CLXXXIX, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company […], page 841:

Two-syllabled adverbs may have these forms, but they are unusual: positive sternly comparative sternlier superlative sternliest

[1949, Clarence Stratton, “Adverbs: Kinds·Rules·Uses·Purposes·Effects”, in Guide to Correct English, New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont.: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 193:

(rare, poetic) superlative form of sternly: most sternly


rottingly

rottingly (comparative more rottingly, superlative most rottingly)

more rottingly (comparative)
most rottingly (superlative)

The yellow leaf lies rottingly / Round a mansion’s trellised door; / Its lord hath that deep sunken eye, / Nought now can e’er restore; […]

1846, Andrew MᶜEwen, “The Sorrow-stricken”, in Zayda, and Other Poems, Belfast: […] Lamont, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 130:

No, my dear boy, make yourself easy. They dare not lay a finger on me. As far as local unrest is concerned, there is no fear but that I shall be spared to die stupidly, rottingly, of old age in my bed.

1916, Lucas Malet (Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison), “The Land of Regrets”, in Damaris: A Novel, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC, page 175:

Then he took a fearless swig of the starchy latte. Pudding-like and rottingly sweet, it left a sticky milk moustache under his nose.

2005, Jonathan DiMarco, Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors: A Novel of Accidental Discharge, Narberth, Pa.: Zaltys Press, →ISBN, page 29:


decayingly

decayingly (comparative more decayingly, superlative most decayingly)

more decayingly (comparative)
most decayingly (superlative)

Contrariwiſe, when the Spirit of God, with-draweth his beames from the circumference of Generation and Compoſition unto the center of ſimplicity, he leaveth to viſite the Spirit of the creature, and ſo it muſt fade, ad^([sic]) decayingly return unto the principle from whence it came; and from thence again, if the ſame ſpirit is pleaſed to ſhine forth, a new Generation beginneth, where the Corruption or Reſolution ended.

1659, Robert Fludd, “The true Mystery of Generation and Corruption (also a touch of Re-generation or Resurrection) is, afer^([sic]) the doctrine of holy Scripture, herein Expressed”, in Mosaicall Philosophy: Grounded upon the Essentiall Truth or Eternal Sapience. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], →OCLC, book 4, page 78:

And yet, though the happiness may be unenduring, what heart, though seared by time and worldly care, can fail to sympathise with those emotions of early life? In after years there are none such. They are the high noon of earthly joy. After them, life goes on decayingly and solemnly to its shadowy sunset.

[1877], [Daniel Shepherd], “Elective Affinities”, in Saratoga. An Indian Tale of Frontier Life. A True Story of 1787., Philadelphia, Pa.: T[heophilus] B[easley] Peterson and Brothers; […], →OCLC, page 314:

Ordinary bodies, living vulnerably and decayingly in time, are poised unstably between these two conditions: the atomised and the flattened.

2011, Steven Connor, “Cards”, in Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things, London: Profile Books, →ISBN, page 49:


resurrectingly

resurrectingly (comparative more resurrectingly, superlative most resurrectingly)

more resurrectingly (comparative)
most resurrectingly (superlative)

The sun came out that day, and shone brightly and encouragingly, and even resurrectingly it seemed to me, on both bloom and bee.

1943, Merton S[tacher] Rice, “The Way of a Bee at a Flower”, in My Father’s World, New York, N.Y., Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 62:

Today? The nineteenth. Six days before he was to go East; four shopping days, sang the radio, till Christmas. Carefully he had planned this day. Lovingly. Resurrectingly! Looking himself over in the mirror as he was about to depart—for his shot first, then the Loop—he had only decided to phone on the chance that Theresa herself might be home, just to make certain, to check up.

1962, Philip Roth, “The Mad Crusader”, in Letting Go, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 542:

Likewise the theology of God crucified, the weakness of the cross, the divine bias to the poor and impotent, makes no idol or ideology of powerlessness. The gospel does not abhor power but reconceives it radically, saying that cruciform weakness is itself powerful—divinely, creatively, resurrectingly so.

1990, Alan E[dmond] Lewis, “Unmasking Idolatries: Vocation in the Ecclesia Crucis”, in Christian D. Kettler, Todd H. Speidell, editors, Incarnational Ministry: The Presence of Christ in Church, Society, and Family: Essays in Honor of Ray S. Anderson, Colorado Springs, Colo.: Helmers & Howard, →ISBN, part I (A Theology of Church Ministry), page 119:

Supposedly, the reason I come here each time is that I’ve forever remembered what a unique place it is on this earth, and how resurrectingly wholesome it is, making no threats and imposing no demands, existing so independently of you that it doesn’t even reject you—that is, the kind of place where, in the marvelous words of Olga S., “soul is miscible with body in all proportions.”

1995, Andrei Bitov, translated by Susan Brownsberger, “The First Tale: Birds (Catechesis)”, in The Monkey Link: A Pilgrimage Novel, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 5:

So we educators ought to help our students get straight the significance of the work they are doing now, in college, and the work they are preparing to do as professionals. They ought neither to bow before it idolatrously nor take it lightly as a mere marking time, messing around. It is deathly, and resurrectingly, serious, yet it is not God, but only one of God’s angels.

1996, Denise Lardner Carmody, “[On Human Nature] Work”, in Organizing a Christian Mind: A Theology of Higher Education, Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, Morehouse Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 37:


per pall

44. Per pall, sable, argent and gules. 45. Per pall reversed, or, argent and azure. 46. Argent, a pall gules.

1896, Franz Sales Meyer, A Handbook of Ornament, with 300 Plates Containing about 3000 Illustrations of the Elements, and the Application of Decoration to Objects, page 508:

[…] is : Per pall (or per pairle), reversed; or, sable and azure; in dexter chief an azure money bag tied and lined gules, proper ; in sinister chief a pair of balances palewise of the fourth; in base a Phoenician galley with sails[…]

Per pall azure, argent and gules, a pall between in chief a sun in splendour or, on the dexter side upon a mount issuing from base an oak-tree proper, and on the sinister side three mullets of six points one and two of the fourth[…]

1929, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour:

(heraldry, uncommon) (Partitioned) into three triangular sections, one pointing down from the top of the shield and the others occupying the remainder of the left and right halves of the shield, as if the shield is divided by a Y shape (formally party per pall or tierced per pall).


circumlocutionarily

circumlocutionarily (comparative more circumlocutionarily, superlative most circumlocutionarily)

more circumlocutionarily (comparative)
most circumlocutionarily (superlative)


legiteral

legiteral (comparative more legiteral, superlative most legiteral)

more legiteral (comparative)
most legiteral (superlative)

“Did you feel that?” Allies asks, before whipping around to gape at Effie and me. Legiteral shivers,” Jennifer says, “every time I watch it.” “We've watched it half a dozen times already, and I'm still amazed at her.”

2020 June 2, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water: A Novel, volume 1, Tor Publishing Group, →ISBN:

(degree, informal, humorous) An intensifier. Used similarly to literal (sense 6).


unenquiringly

unenquiringly (comparative more unenquiringly, superlative most unenquiringly)

more unenquiringly (comparative)
most unenquiringly (superlative)

Let then the whole country at once beastir^([sic]) and clear us from the foul disgrace of passing tacitly and unenquiringly this awful narrative.

1841 August 7, “Extract of a Letter from One of the Doomed Victims in the Hell-Hole of Wakefield”, in The Northern Star, and Leeds General Advertiser, volume IV, number 195, Leeds, West Yorkshire, page 5, column 2:

With the best possible intentions, it may be, but still with the least possible insight, they speak of the Bible so much more in conformity with their natural notions of what it ought to be than with other men’s observation of what it is, and give themselves up so unenquiringly to mere traditions concerning it rather than to facts, that they are casting unnecessary stumbling-blocks in the way of many of their brethren who, if weaker in faith are stronger in understanding than themselves, and yet are willing to enter upon the conditions of discipleship with hearts as honest and as earnest as any.

1841–1848, [Frederic Myers], “The Third Book: The Bible”, in Catholic Thoughts on the Bible and Theology, Cambridge, Cambs.: […] C[harles] J[ohn] Clay, M.A. at the University Press, →OCLC, section l, pages 136–137:

The American missionaries, and the native government actuated by the missionaries, threw themselves unenquiringly and at once into a crusade against the prevailing licentiousness of the people.

1862, Manley Hopkins, “Hawaiian Characteristics”, in Hawaii: The Past, Present, and Future of Its Island-Kingdom. […], London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 350:

I passed by with a murmured greeting, and the old lady turned and looked at me—merely looked, calmly, unenquiringly, and without uttering a word.

2016, John Banville, “Baggotonia”, in Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 71:


uninquiringly

uninquiringly (comparative more uninquiringly, superlative most uninquiringly)

more uninquiringly (comparative)
most uninquiringly (superlative)

The name of the Tomb of Psammis has been so arbitrarily conferred on this magnificent excavation, and so uninquiringly conceded, that it may appear a task as bold as it is singular, to gainsay its title to the name, and reverse the decree of fashion.

1823 May, E. C., “On the (So Called) Tomb of Psammis”, in The Album, volume III, number V, London: […] J. Andrews, […], →OCLC, page 74:

In seminaries and colleges, where it is the system to cultivate the head and neglect the heart, the minds of our youth, without the smallest regard to their respective tendencies, […] models are set before the students, that they may be servilely and uninquiringly copied;—[…]

1829, [Horace Smith], chapter II, in The New Forest. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 35:

The knock was repeated, and a man’s voice—it sounded like the valet’s—said my name dully and uninquiringly, as if he was reading it from a list.

1997, Peter Cameron, chapter 7, in Andorra, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 61:


wettingly

wettingly (comparative more wettingly, superlative most wettingly)

more wettingly (comparative)
most wettingly (superlative)

The mizzling rain falls wettingly, / Few linger in the street; […]

1846, Andrew MᶜEwen, “The Sorrow-stricken”, in Zayda, and Other Poems, Belfast: […] Lamont, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 127:

Rain, dreary and wet, fell persistently and wettingly all day yesterday as on Saturday, and the east wind played a doleful accompaniment to its pattering on roofs and window panes, and to the eternal drip, drip, dripping.

1898 February 21, “New York All Adrip: Churchgoers Buffeted by a High Wind and Drenched by a Dreary Downpour. […]”, in The New York Times, volume XLVII, number 15,012, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, page 5, column 3:

Alas, it rained and rained quietly and wettingly all Saturday and Sunday, and I was cooped up with Clive, Duncan and Barbara in a very stuffy room.

1962 May 7, Frances Partridge, Hanging On: Diaries December 1960 – August 1963, London: Phoenix Giant, published 1998, →ISBN, page 108:


as you go

as you go (comparative more as you go, superlative most as you go)

more as you go (comparative)
most as you go (superlative)

learn as you go

pay as you go

(idiomatic) While one is doing (something); as one progresses.


grasively

grasively (comparative more grasively, superlative most grasively)

more grasively (comparative)
most grasively (superlative)

Possible blend of grasp + comprehensively, likely an errant assemblage of LLM tokens, either beginning with the token "gras" intending the completion grasp or some conjugation thereof or else mistakenly extending grasp by analogy with comprehensively and its relation to the partially synonymous comprehend; several versions of ChatGPT current as of late 2023 and early 2024 will generate this word in prose, driving its sudden appearance and propagation online.

Effective listening in children involves understanding spoken words, recognizing the flow of conversation, and grasively noting important details.

2024 June 5, School Data Leadership Association, Key Components of Oral Language Skills:

Aro has grasively understood this challenge and turned restriction into a ritual.

2024 February 4, Marie Dollé, No Signal:


multiversally

multiversally (comparative more multiversally, superlative most multiversally)

more multiversally (comparative)
most multiversally (superlative)

The mission is critical but need not be rushed. The storm has been brewing for several weeks, and will not reach multiversally devastating proportions for a few months.

1980, TSR, Frank Mentzer, Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition: The Immortal Storm Complete, Rainbow Communications, →ISBN, page 25:

I have no knowledge of any Project 616,” I say. "I can only conjecture. Let me think.. .'616' is the multiversally agreed designature of this Universe.”

2014, Dan Abnett, Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Steal the Galaxy!: An Original Novel of the Marvel Universe, Marvel Worldwide, →ISBN, page 148:

Our answer: Well, duh! Multiversally, baby.

2016, Linda Varsell Smith, Star Stuff: A Soul-Splinter Experiences the Cosmos, Rainbow Communications, →ISBN, page 25:

(rare, physics, science fiction, fantasy, cosmology) In a multiversal manner.


Welshly

Welshly (comparative more Welshly, superlative most Welshly)

more Welshly (comparative)
most Welshly (superlative)

A sooner journey will be very combersome and jeopardous in regard of wayes, now deepe and dangerous, at all times steepe, craggy, and welshly teedious, wherefore (I trust) his Maᵗⁱᵉ will not denie soe old a servaunt such a winter suite, but be as God unto me, who desireth not yᵉ death of a sinner, neither will yᵉ Kinge my master desire yᵉ death of a most loyally faithful subject.

1629 October 31, Edward Barrington de Fonblanque, quoting Theophilus Field, “Endymion Porter. 1586—1649.”, in Lives of the Lords Strangford, with Their Ancestors and Contemporaries through Ten Generations, London, Paris, New York, N.Y.: Cassell Petter & Galpin, published 1877, page 56:

The 3d named Jenkin James, a luſty young Fellow, about the ſame Heigth as Gaſtril, has a good freſh Complection, bred by trade a Taylor, but of late has been uſed to ſawing, talks very much Welſhly, and had on when he went away a coarſe red Coat and Waſtecoat, the Buttons and Button Holes of the Coat black

1739 May 7, “Advertisements”, in The South-Carolina Gazette. […], number 286, Charleston, S.C., published 1739 June 16, page [2], column 2:

Shee, Q.C., appointed Judge of the Court of Record at Salford. Naturally Shee likes being courted. Pity it wasn’t in Wales, as then they would Welshly-and-grammatically speak of “appearing before Shee” as “appearing before Her.”

1893 December 16, “A Feminine Triumph”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CV, number 2736, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. […], page 277, column 1:

They’d taught her to speak Welshly – she didn’t always, but she could.

1999, A[lison] L[ouise] Kennedy, Everything You Need, London: Vintage, published 2000, →ISBN, page 37:


agateward

agateward (comparative more agateward, superlative most agateward)

more agateward (comparative)
most agateward (superlative)

D.why ſo?S.He ſaith,ſhe was bougbt by perſwaſion.D.Did not you ſay You went agateward with him latelie into the countrey from bence?

1663, Publius Terentius [i.e., Terence], “Terences Adelphi: Engliſh and Latine”, in Charles Hoole, transl., Six Comedies Of that excellent Poet Publius Terentius an African of Carthage in Engliſh and Latine, […] Company of Stationers, Act IV, scene ii, page 292:

James. — After I was made willing to go, I gave away my eſtate, and caſt out my money, and I began to make ſome preparation, as apparel and other neceſſaries; but a while after, going agateward with a friend from my own houſe, […]

1777, Joseph Nicolson, “Parish of Kikby Stephen”, in The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland, volume I, London: […] W. Strahan; T. Cadell, page 538:

Agateward, Love, I will not go
When you shall take your leave;
Wear your cockade like driven snow,
And no riband on your sleeve. […]

1943, Ann Batchelder, “For a Lady's Lute”, in East of Bridgewater, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, page 76:

(obsolete) Agate; on the way; agoing; (more strictly) towards a gate.


weightfully

(uncommon) In a weightful way or manner.


no Diddy

In reference to American rapper and record producer Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, after several allegations of sexual misconduct (including rape) were made against him; probably modelled after no homo. Popularized in March 2024 after several properties tied to Combs were raided by the United States Department of Homeland Security as part of their ongoing investigation, but attested earlier.

I say it to strangers shit I love everybody brother love No Diddy!

(slang, informal, often sarcastic, potentially offensive) Synonym of no homo (“used immediately before or after a statement to indicate that there was no homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.”)


risingly

risingly (comparative more risingly, superlative most risingly)

more risingly (comparative)
most risingly (superlative)

The play was written in a London of bubonic plague, cheap death, religious burnings, torture; a London given over to the deal: the buy/sell transactions of a risingly brutal capitalism dealing in information through spies and informers, flesh through rampantly exploitative prostitution, liberty and freedom through indentures and slavery.

1987, Brian Rotman, “King Lear and ‘nothing’”, in Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (Language, Discourse, Society), Basingstoke, Hants., London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, →ISBN, section 3 (Nothing: Zero), page 81:

Painting was just one, though the most visible, witness to the perceptual change that spread through every form – reflecting not just a risingly confident avant garde, but the new views of consciousness and perception, the new apocalyptic awareness of modernity and universal change, that was brought by an age massing technology, new social conflict, increasing urbanisation, and the growing systematisation of life.

1987, Malcolm Bradbury, “‘A Dog Engulfed in Sand’: Character and Abstraction in Contemporary Writing and Painting”, in No, Not Bloomsbury, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, published 1988, →ISBN, part 1 (Writer and Critic), section 3, pages 31–32:

An experimental, risingly postmodern, gallery of fiction for which Invisible Man always acted as the beacon, equally made its bow, notably William Demby’s cubist The Catacombs (1965), William Melvin Kelley’s fantasist picture of white suburbia and Harlem, dem (1967), John Wideman’s peregrinatory Hurry Home (1970) and Leon Forrest’s dream-memoir of black Chicago, There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (1973).

2020, A[rthur] Robert Lee, “Introduction: 25ᵗʰ Anniversary Edition: Perspective and Memoir”, in Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, 25th anniversary edition, New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 8:


in sequence

By surface analysis, in + sequence. Possibly a confusion from Latin īnsequēns (“following, pursuing, next”, present active participle).

der

He built the house brick by brick in sequence.

one after another
one after another#English

(dated, rare) Sequentially, one after another.


dunnarf

A reduction of do not half or does not half.

I dunnarf feel ill .

1971, Ian Curteis, Long Voyage Out of War: A Trilogy of Television Plays, published 1971, page 175:

I knock it every time we kneel for prayers, it dunnarf hurt.

2013, Phillipa Bowers, The Secrets Of The Cave, published 2013, page 41:

FRANKIE presents her hands. BRIDIE holds them – checking the feel of them. You lot dun'narf get the pretty ones duncha? Don't know how you brood of ugly bastards do it.

2013, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Gutted, published 2013:


squirmily

en-adverb

squirmily (comparative more squirmily, superlative most squirmily)

more squirmily (comparative)
most squirmily (superlative)


choanally

Such as to involve the choanae; in a manner that is choanal.


boresomely

en-adv

boresomely (comparative more boresomely, superlative most boresomely)

more boresomely (comparative)
most boresomely (superlative)


b'ezrat Hashem

Borrowed from Hebrew [Term?] (“with God's help”)

bor+

Yes, it was really great. I missed not being in shul, though, especially on Simchas Torah. Well, next year, b'ezras Hashem."

1994, Sarah M. Schleimer, Far from the Place We Called Home, Feldheim Publishers, →ISBN, page 116:

One thing is for sure, if I b'ezras Hashem have children one day, I will not allow any computer w/ internet access in the home.

2001 August 1, N. Samuel R.title, “Avoid Unseemly Ads w/ WebWasher”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

I'm not overjoyed with the idea of it having to be a step-parent adoption, since neither I nor my partner nor Tova consider me to be anything but a full parent, but I'll take it, particularly since it's way cheaper than the second parent adoption process. The law takes effect on January 1, so b'ezrat Hashem, we'll get it finished up before Tova turns 2.

2001 December 10, Lisa, “Why Lsa Left”, in (Usenet):

(Jewish) Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.


perpetuously

It deserved to be perpetuously memorable.

1611, John Speed, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published 1614, page 23:

A Conjunction which I wold ever call Copulativ, and make, if I could, perpetuously Consummativ.

1683, Edward Hooker, Preface to Pordage’s Mystic Divinitie, page 71:

(obsolete, rare) Synonym of perpetually (“everlastingly, in perpetuity, for ever”)


for what

“For what didst thou drub him, O man of peace?” inquired the Glover.

1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 58:

For what is this tool used? Sketch it upon your paper, showing the pick better placed, and explain why you alter it.

1902 May 7, “South Kensington Examinations. (Held on Saturday evening last.) Questions and Answers in Building Construction.—Elementary Stage.”, in The Builders’ Journal and Architectural Record, Appealing to Those Engaged in the Art of Building, volume 15, number 378, London: […] Eyre and Spottiswoode, […], page 186, column 1:

Darden wondered how many people had been injured. Certainly hundreds. For what? Why would someone cause all this misery and loss?

2012, David Darracott, chapter 7, in Internal Security, 2nd edition, Atlanta, Ga.: Lightning Rod Books, →ISBN, page 49:


adventiously

en-adv

adventiously (comparative more adventiously, superlative most adventiously)

more adventiously (comparative)
most adventiously (superlative)

(obsolete or archaic) In an adventitious manner; adventitiously.


ignoringly

ignoringly (comparative more ignoringly, superlative most ignoringly)

more ignoringly (comparative)
most ignoringly (superlative)

Some day soon you will receive in the mail a little golden-rod colored card, it will bring a message. It will ask a PROMISE of you, don’t cast it ignoringly aside, it appeals not for your money, nor your wife, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your car, nor your radio, it seeks only the product of your toil which is in reality something you love to do.

1926 June, “[Association News] The Convention is Drawing Near”, in Sigismund Blumann, editor, Camera Craft: A Photographic Monthly, volume XXXIII, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: Camera Craft Publishing Co., page 287, column 2:

I don’t know, how do I look after my kind / First, and shut up the rest with the minimum of rude? / When you, despite me are nor ignoringly deaf and blind?

2010, Patricia Walsh, “The Politicianette”, in Continuity Errors, Belfast: Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 41:

A few more faces had turned to see her literally fall apart, then unemotively and embarrassed just turned away, to ignoringly resume their conversations again.

2015, Stephanie C Harte, “One [The Skoolhouse]”, in Saving Eden: An Ecology Romance, [CreateSpace], →ISBN, page 15:


hyperglycemically

Coordinate term: hypoglycemically

Impaired microcirculatory perfusion appears to be crucial to the pathogenesis of both neuropathy and retinopathy in diabetics. This in turn reflects a hyperglycemically mediated perturbation of vascular endothelial function that entails overactivation of protein kinase C, reduced availability of nitric oxide […]

1998 May, M. F. McCarty, “Nitric oxide deficiency, leukocyte activation, and resultant ischemia are crucial to the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy/ neuropathy — preventive potential of antioxidants, essential fatty acids, chromium, ginkgolides, and pentoxifylline”, in Medical Hypotheses, volume 50, number 5, →DOI, page 435:


hypoglycemically

Coordinate term: hyperglycemically

The mechanism of hypoglycemia that predisposes to all-cause mortality/CVD incidence remains unclear. This mechanism may be explained by sympathetic-adrenal activations (15), prolonged cardiac repolarization and increased cardiac arrhythmia risk (15), hypoglycemically induced coagulation abnormalities (29), inflammatory reactions (30), and endothelial dysfunctions (29).

2016 September, Chin-Li Lu, Hsiu-Nien Shen, Susan C. Hu, Jung-Der Wang, Chung-Yi Li, “A Population-Based Study of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease in Association With Prior History of Hypoglycemia Among Patients With Type 1 Diabetes”, in Diabetes Care, volume 39, number 9, →DOI, page 1577:


ten-thousandfold

They found that the viscosity increases gradually from the melting point of sulfur, 115 to 119° C (933), up to about 159° C, at which point the viscosity sharply increases ten-thousandfold (55, 1098).

1962, William A[ustin] Pryor, “[Elemental Sulfur] Reactions of Sulfur in Liquid Sulfur”, in Mechanisms of Sulfur Reactions, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 7:

An electron, for instance, weighs 10⁻²⁷ grams. Even if its mass increases ten-thousandfold, it will still weigh only 10⁻²³ grams; […]

1987, J[ulius] T[homas] Fraser, “[Ask the stone to say: Time in the World of Matter] The Atemporal Kingdom of Light: Special Relativity Theory, the Physics of the Fastest Signals”, in Time, the Familiar Stranger, Amherst, Mass.: The University of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 233:

Nova eruptions can see the star system’s overall light output multiply ten-thousandfold, and may be one-off events triggered during a very brief phase of the system’s evolution, or a longer-lived recurrent phenomenon, with eruptions every few decades or more.

2015, Giles Sparrow, “[Star death] Nova systems”, in Astronomy in Minutes: The Night Sky Explained in an Instant, New York, N.Y.: Quercus, →ISBN, page 336:


certainliest

Triall doth certainlieſt the truth bewray.

1600, “Of Truth”, in Iohn Bodenham, compiler, Bel-vedére or The Garden of the Muses, London: […] F[elix] K[ingston] for Hugh Astley, […], page 14:

Without doubt many acute, malign, and confuſed ſickneſſes, would be beſt, eaſilieſt and certainlieſt cured by Plants of that Planet that are antipathetical to the Planet that is found to cauſe the Diſeaſe; […]

1664, William Drage, “William Drage D. P. His Monitory Proæmium to the Candid Readers”, in A Physical Nosonomy: or, A New and True Description of the Law of God (Called Nature) in the Body of Man: […], London: […] J. Dover, for the Author, page [39]:

Next to the Act of Cogitation and Volition itſelf, and to the moſt certain Objects of Sence, there is nothing in all the World ſo Certain, that is, ſo Evident to the Intellect, as the Being of God: He being that to the Mind which the Sun is to the Eye, certainlieſt known, though little of him be known, and no Creature comprehend him.

1689, Richard Baxter, “What are the Certainties that must be known and held fast, and why?”, in A Treatise of Knowledge and Love Compared. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Parkhurst […], part I (Of Falsly Pretended Knowledge), page 39:

Uſe always the float and quill, angle for him [the carp] ſometimes above, and ſometimes below mid-water, as the weather is, tho’ in mid-water he is the certainlieſt taken, eſpecially in a pond, but in rivers he is very ſhy: […]

1758, “Of Angling”, in T[homas] Fairfax, compiler, The Compleat Sportsman; or Country Gentleman’s Recreation. […], London: […] J. Cooke, […], page 152:

(rare, obsolete) superlative form of certainly: most certainly


brightliest

Oh, never till then I knew the worth / Of woman’s love, its power to bless; / Which like the star, shines brightliest forth, / In darkest hour of bitterness!

1829 May, Charles M., “Stanzas”, in The Ladies’ Museum […], volume I, London: James Robins and Co. […], page 271:

Then Hector strove to break the rang’d array, / Where brightliest mail’d the densest squadrons lay; […]

1831, Homer, translated by William Sotheby, “The Fifteenth Book of the Iliad”, in The Iliad of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], page 105:

Him I remember while this life endures. / The day lives brightliest in my memory / When from a matin fate he snatched my days.

1835, [Thomas J. F. Kelly], “Act II. Scene I.—Castle of Ingelheim.”, in Henry IV. of Germany; a Tragedy, in Five Acts, New York, N.Y.: […] Osborn & Buckingham, […], page 33:

When danger, or the dread of it, encompasses the soul—when timidity fluctuates and excitement roars—who then controls? Not he, whose intellect is most logically practised—whose memory is richest stored—whose tongue is brightliest eloquent: but he whose eye blenches least—whose heart beats the calmest: he, it is, is master of the hour.

1838, [Horace Binney Wallace], chapter VII, in Stanley; or The Recollections of a Man of the World. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea & Blanchard, […], page 78:

But while the sun shone /brightest⟩brightliest/,—(and it shines now—) I said “The cold wind is felt thro’ it all,—she keeps the room!” The wind is unremitting,—savage.

1846 April 27, Robert Browning, “332 (W168): R.B. to E.B.B.”, in Elvan Kintner, editor, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845–1846, volume II (March 1846–September 1846), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, published 1969, →ISBN, pages 657–658:

The dawn breaks at the darkest hour; / Stars brightliest shine when midnight skies / Are palled in gloom; […]

1850, James Clarence Mangan, “Bear Up. Ballad.”, in Hercules Ellis, editor, Romances and Ballads of Ireland, Dublin: […] James Duffy, […], stanza II, page 12:

At night, / When all the stars burned brightliest, and the bowers / Of song were silent, he in stealth returned— / And lo! the Spirit slumbering as before.

1850, Philip James Bailey, “The Angel World”, in The Angel World, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 37:

[H]e [Edwin Guest] looks upon the final e of the adjective as being […] the affixed e which in Anglo-Saxon converted an adjective into an adverb. Thus, in the line from the Clerke’s Tale, in the Canterbury Tales, he regards bright-e as representing, not our present adjective bright, but our adverb brightly. In the superlative, however, he affirms, it is not the adverb, but the adjective, that takes the e; in other words, that brightest is brighteste, and that brightliest is brightest.

[1851, George L[illie] Craik, “[…] the Period of Middle English; […]”, in Outlines of the History of the English Language for the Use of the Junior Classes in Colleges and the Higher Classes in Schools, London: Chapman and Hall, […], subsection I, pages 111–112:

E’en Affection’s light is gone / Quickly where it brightliest shone, / And the tones that charm’d thy care / Leave dead silence on the air; / Is such thy home?

1854, Caroline Dent, “Home”, in Thougths and Sketches in Verse, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co. […], page 162:

She haughtily swept by the Sassenach maiden, / Whose brow was with jewels the brightliest laden!

1855, J. Frazer, “Aileen O’Moore”, in Edward Hayes, editor, The Ballads of Ireland, volume II, London; Edinburgh; Dublin: A[rchibald] Fullarton & Co., page 189:

In the superlative the adverb terminated in -est simply, as in A.S. swiftost and swiftest=Old English swiftest=modern swiftliest. So brightest=brightliest, adv.; but brighteste=brightest, adj.

[1860, A[ugustus] H[enry] Keane, “(1350-1450). Middle English Period—[…]”, in Handbook of the History of the English Language, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts; Dublin: John F. Fowler, […], subsection 4, pages 74–75:

Pause not on the path of duty! / Progress is life’s law divine; / Rest doth rust—the rays of beauty / Brightliest when fleetest shine.

1861, William Billington, “Pause Not on the Path of Duty”, in Sheen and Shade: Lyrical Poems, Blackburn, Lancashire: John Neville Haworth, […]; London: Hall & Virtue, […], page 86:

You are afraid of death—of the judgment—of eternity. That is thirst! Alas, I know it, for I have stood in the green places, where life’s water sparkled brightliest to mortal lips, and found the cup dashed with wormwood, and longed the while for water from a purer spring.

1869, Charles Wadsworth, “The Gospel Call”, in Sermons, New York, N.Y.; San Francisco, Calif.: A[nton] Roman & Company, […], page 86:

Poetry is Faith; / It sees the throne of God, / Beyond the frozen seas of death, / In realms by Angels trod. / It blossoms brightliest above, / Where all is pure and perfect love!

1875, Sheldon Chadwick, “What Is Poetry?”, in Working and Singing: Poems, Lyrics, and Songs on the Life-March, London: […] Edwin Benson, […], page 82, column 2:

As we can have the adjectival forms bright, brighter, brightest, so we can have the adverbial forms brightly, brightlier, brightliest, but degree is alike inconceivable in the adjective ‘round,’ and the A. ‘here.’

[1876, “Ad′verb”, in John M[erry] Ross, editor, The Globe Enyclopædia of Universal Information, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Estes & Lauriat, […], page 25, column 1:

Warm is our blood and our manhood the knightliest, / Loyal our service and gracious our quest. / How should we doubt when the sunlight falls brightliest? / How should we fear when time’s yoke presses lightliest? / What should we see but the glow of the West / In the eyes we love best?

1880 May 22, John Moran, “Loyalty”, in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, volume L, number 1,286, New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, page 190, column 1:

In the southwest the Great Dog with the splendid Sirius (“which brightliest shines when laved of ocean’s wave”) shows resplendently.

1886 January 2, Richard A[nthony] Proctor, “Night Sky.—December and January.”, in Scientific American […], volume LIV, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., page 3, column 1:

Faiths as faiths perish one after another, but each in passing away bequeaths for the enrichment of the after-world whatever elements it has contained of imaginative or moral truth or beauty. The polytheism of ancient Greece, embodying the instinctive effort of the brightliest-gifted human race to explain its earliest experiences of nature and civilization, of the thousand moral and material forces, cruel or kindly, which environ and control the life of man on earth, is rich beyond measure in such elements; […]

[1887], Sidney Colvin, “Isabella.—Hyperion.—The Eve of St. Agnes.—The Eve of St. Mark.—La Belle Dame Sans Merci.—Lamia.—The Odes.—The Plays.”, in John Morley, editor, Keats (English Men of Letters; 38), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 151:

Hail, O sacred Isle, / That brightliest to heaven’s rosiest dawn dost smile!

1890, Victor Hugo, translated by Nelson R[ich] Tyerman, “Jersey”, in G[eorge] T[homas] Bettany, editor, Select Poems and Tragedies (The Minerva Library of Famous Books; 17), London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward, Lock, and Co., section “Personal Poems”, page 144:

Had I been a star, / I had put discord in the sphery music, / Were I not Venus, and burned brightliest.

1898, Thomas Fergusson, chapter III, in Walter Græme; or, A Home among the Hills, and Other Poems, Paisley, Renfrewshire: J[ames] and R[obert] Parlane; Edinburgh; Glasgow: John Menzies and Co.; London: Houlston and Sons, page 46:

It is the hour when stars and women brightliest beam.

1906, Victor Hugo, translated by John Payne, “Night-Walk”, in Flowers of France: The Romantic Period: Hugo to Leconte de Lisle: Representative Poems of the Nineteenth Century Rendered into English Verse in Accordance with the Original Forms: […], volume I (The Main Battle), London: […] [T]he Villon Society: […], page 44:

Because from thy pure bosom brightliest spring / The pure and sacred fires, and fairest shine / In all the ways of earth; […] Thee do we make our shrine, whose light doth glow / E’en through the hollow of our fearful night, / To bring us comfort of the light of thee.

1921 January 29, Ralph Gordon, “Russia: Shrine”, in Jacob Wittmer Hartmann, editor, Soviet Russia: A Weekly Journal of Information, volume IV, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Kenneth Durant, page 123, column 2:

Sophocles, Plato, Socrates, / Gentlemen, / Pythagoras, Thucydides, / Herodotus, and Homer, – yea, / Clement, Augustin, Origen, / Burnt brightlier towards their setting-day, / Gentlemen. […] 62 brightlier] brightliest ms

1922, Thomas Hardy, “An Ancient to Ancients”, in James Gibson, editor, The Variorum Edition of the Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., published 1978 (1979 edition), →ISBN, section “Late Lyrics and Earlier”, page 697, lines 57–63:

He whose torch of wisdom now burned brightliest at Athens had returned from exile, and his distracted nation enjoyed again some measure of freedom.

1924, Eden Phillpotts, “The Mission”, in The Treasures of Typhon, London: Grant Richards Ltd. […], page 8:

Meantime we waited, watching, and perceived / The wondrous rainbow from our common sun / Of intellect shine brightliest on the cloud / Of man’s mistaken hope; for what had we, / Who taught in terms of life and death, to set / Against this gleaming immortality?

1924, Eden Phillpotts, “The Rationalists”, in Thoughts in Prose and Verse, London: Watts & Co., […], page 7:

One of the brightliest gifted among University students, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru was perhaps never a candidate for a temporary munsiffship or the post of subregistrar on probation or an officiating vacancy under a village dominie.

1936 May, Hira Lal Chatterji, “Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru’s Report on Unemployment”, in Ramananda Chatterjee, editor, The Modern Review (A Monthly Review and Miscellany), volume LIX, number 5 (353 overall), Calcutta, Bengal Province: The Modern Review Office […], page 505, column 1:

You can look down into the Canyon [from the Rim] and everybody sees this rock, it’s so bright. […] The Hakatai shale. […] If you go out there to the Rim, you will see that color-wise it overpowers the Redwall by far, it overpowers the Supai, it overpowers the Hermit shale — which are all the real red units. The Dox sandstone is a beautiful red, too, but the Hakatai is orange. It is the brightliest-colored rock in the Canyon.

1999, Craig Childs, quoting Bruce Aiken, “Bruce Aiken: The Painter”, in Leo W. Banks, Craig Childs, Grand Canyon Stories: Then & Now, Phoenix, Ariz.: Arizona Highways Books, →ISBN, section “Now”, pages 162–163:

(literary or poetic) superlative form of brightly: most brightly


altarward

I am morally certain that if, whilst I was being conducted altarward through that thronged church this morning, anybody had shown any portion of my person the fullest stabbing-qualities of which the largest-sized pin is capable, I should have been thoroughly ignorant of such a demonstration.

1873, Edgar Fawcett, chapter XIII, in Purple and Fine Linen, New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., page 136:

[…] and I now imagine "dearest Jane" filling my place, tending the wounds I tended, brushing the curly jungle I brushed, loving the excellent little youth I loved, and eventually walking altarward, with the Sergeant stumping gallantly at her side.

1863, Louisa May Alcott, “A Postcript” (chapter VI), in Hospital Sketches, Boston: James Redpath, pages 94-95:

On the morning of the wedding, when the church was crowded with guests, Lancelot again saw his love. She was leaning upon the arm of Almund, and stepping altarward to the sound of a noble marriage hymn.

c. 1891, Amelia E. Barr, “Marrying and Promise of Marriage” (chapter IV), in Love for an Hour Is Love Forever, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., page 60:

And still the white-veiled women continue to kneel in the aisle, their faces turned altarward, and the motley-hued garments of the men are pressed close together in the body of the church.

1896, Marion Harland, “Christmas in Bethlehem (Continued)” (chapter XLI), in Home of the Bible: What I Saw and Heard in Palestine, New York City: Bible House, page 376:

He left himself out through the front door and went down the avenue to his car that he had parked down there away from the house the way I wouldn’t hear him coming in and he could surprise me, back early from his trip to the north, and the necklace boxed and bowed and held out before him like a thing being taken altarward in an offertory procession and the thorns of the rosebush opened the skin of my hand as I retrieved it from where he’d flung it and the salt of my tears seared in the tiny wounds.

2016, Donal Ryan, “Physiotherapy”, in A Slanting of the Sun: Stories, Black Swan Ireland, pages 135-136:

(now uncommon) In the direction of an altar, toward an altar.


hopeward

With a spectral gleam of joy / Shooting hopeward in the breast,

1850, G[eorge] Linnæus Banks, “Night in the Capital”, in Staves for the Human Ladder, London, Edinburgh, Dublin: Charles Gilpin; Adam and Charles Black; J. B. Gilpin, →OCLC, page 103:

As flower springs up to catch the breeze, / Smiles in the sunshine warm that fills / Its cup, though seldom falls it 'neath the trees, / So the heart rises hopeward 'mid its ills !

1856, Lydia Louisa Anna Very, “The Day”, in Poems, Andover: W. F. Draper, page 29:

For though my feet in silence move / Alone across this waste of hours, / My heart strains hopeward like a dove, / My soul bursts out in passion-flowers ;

1872, John Payne, “Shadow-soul”, in Songs of Life and Death, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 128:


joyward

Because her heart as our own heart, / Knowing the same wild upward stir, / Beats joyward by eternal laws, / We must arise and go with her;

1894 March 15 [1893 January 25], Bliss Carman, “The Pensioners”, in Low Tide on Grand Pré, 2nd edition, Stone and Kimball, page 32:


from moment to moment

In it I represent to myself only the successive progress from moment to moment, and this, by the addition of all the bits of time, finally begets a determinate quantity of time.

1914, George Stuart Fullerton, A System of Metaphysics: The content of consciousness, page 199:

One must renew oneself in time, from moment to moment, and the only way to attain newness from moment to moment is to die from moment to moment.

2020, Ashok Sharda ·, Waiting for the Next:

The physical body is functioning from moment to moment because that is the way the sensory perceptions are.

2022, U. G. Krishnamurti, The Natural State:

The system as a whole is the objective outcome of this interplay of its parts or members from moment to moment.

2022, Marc A. Pugliese, John Becker, Process Thought and Roman Catholicism: Challenges and Promises, page 83:


sacrificingly

sacrificingly (comparative more sacrificingly, superlative most sacrificingly)

more sacrificingly (comparative)
most sacrificingly (superlative)

During the tedious lawsuit of 1895 and 1896, which threatened to involve the means her husband had left for the maintenance of the university, she sacrificingly used her personal means to help over until the suit was gained.

1897, “STANFORD, Mrs. Jane Lathrop”, in Frances E[lizabeth] Willard, Mary A[shton] Livermore, editors, American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with over 1,400 Portraits: […], revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Springfield, Oh.: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, →OCLC, page 676, column 2:

Hon. Lloyd C[arpenter] Griscom said, on being introduced, it was not his intention to make a formal speech, but to give expression to his appreciation of [Women’s Union] Mission work, and especially woman’s work, for the home life of the people for whom they so sacrificingly laboured.

1904 December 3, “Dedication of the Doremus Hall”, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literature, and Art, volume XLII, number 23, Yokohama, →OCLC, page 620, column 2:

[George] O’Brien, a rich man’s son, losing all, comes west, locates on a ranch where the owner, his daughter (Dorothy Wilson) and the foreman (Paul Kelly) are being crowded out by Harry Woods’ villainy. O’Brien tames a horse, his objective, saves the ranch and gets the girl while Kelly, sacrificingly, rides off.

1935 January 26, “G.” [pseudonym], “Motion Picture Daily’s Hollywood Preview: ‘When a Man’s a Man’”, in Martin Quigley, editor, Motion Picture Daily […], volume 37, number 22, New York, N.Y.: Motion Picture Daily, Inc., Quigley Publications, Inc., →ISSN, page 4, column 2:

Major Church authorities have no recognizable bodies to deal with, no fixed ministries. This limits the long-term impact of these lay ministers internal to the Church they sacrificingly serve.

1989, Leonard Doohan, “[Ministering in Church Structures] Reflections”, in Grass Roots Pastors: A Handbook for Career Lay Ministers, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 114:

That war could be launched into because men and women light-mindedly – often unselfishly, I give you, sacrificingly – believed that war was permissible, controllable, sometimes right; […]

1989, Sybille Bedford, “Part IV: Anchorage: France”, in Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education: A Biographical Novel, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, chapter III, page 100:

I sacrificingly give the caller five minutes to babble, cursing and resenting every second.

2000, Helen Gurley Brown, “Calling You at Work”, in I’m Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 253:

[W]ould I like it if I left the dishes in the sink just once, and went into the next room to play my guitar, and Tom sighed all passive-aggressively and banged around the dishes as he sacrificingly cleaned them?

2008, Nerissa Nields, “Forgiveness”, in How to Be an Adult: A Musician’s Guide to Navigating Your Twenties, Northampton, Mass.: Mercy House Publishing, →ISBN, part 2 (Taking Care of the Vehicle That Is You), page 60:


moment by moment

from moment to moment
from moment to moment#English


damn sure

en-adverb

damn sure (comparative more damn sure, superlative most damn sure)

more damn sure (comparative)
most damn sure (superlative)

(sometimes considered, vulgar) Absolutely certain; The truth.


organizedly

en-adv

organizedly (comparative more organizedly, superlative most organizedly)

more organizedly (comparative)
most organizedly (superlative)

The third mode—"organizedly collective"—involves coordinating one's efforts with those of other members of one's group to realize a collective end, taking action in concert with others.

1994, Lawrence A. Blum, Moral Perception and Particularity, page 246:

Humanity must not only act organizedly but also think organizedly.

2022, Frederik van Eeden, The Bride of Dreams:

The men in the iron and steel industry are striving for a fundamental right of industry, at least so I conceive it;—the right to organize and to deal organizedly with their employers.

1949, Stephen Samuel Wise, Challenging Years: The Autobiography of Stephen Wise:


slyfully

He stares at John for a few seconds, followed by a visual pat-down of him. “2g.” “Deal.” They quickly and slyfully exchange merchandise.

2018 August 14, Nick Spisak, Darkest Side of the Moon, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

And I do do that, I just do it very, like, slyfully sometimes.

2024, bbno$, "bbno$ Teaches Shayne Music | Smosh Mouth 54", 25:56


impressingly

impressingly (comparative more impressingly, superlative most impressingly)

more impressingly (comparative)
most impressingly (superlative)

So ſhall he always hit the right and touching ſenſibility of tone, and move his auditors, impreſſingly: […]

a. 1751, Aaron Hill, “An Essay on the Art of Acting”, in The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] [F]or the Benefit of the Family, published 1753, page 367:

In impressing upon his audience, that it was not the amount of worldly contributions, but the sacrifice made by the individual from his means, which found favor in the eye of heaven; the preacher impressingly referred his hearers to the history of the poor widow who cast in her two mites into the treasury, and the sublime sacrifice of all that was dear to human nature, which the Patriarch Abraham offered to make.

1822 October, The Calcutta Monthly Journal, volume XLII, number 336, page 523:

I then shook hands with him as impressingly as I could manage to, and advised him, as he wished to avoid an ignominious death, to make all possible speed to Boston, and then out of it, without stopping so much as to see whether I made an edifying death.

1842, “The Schoolmaster Abroad, or Who Was the Victim?”, in Nathan Hale, Jr., editor, The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion, volume II, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Bradbury, Soden and Company. […], page 158, column 2:

Moses went to make known this encouragement to the people; but, and the observation is impressingly suggestive, “they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.”

1850, John Kitto, Daily Bible Illustrations: Being Original Readings for a Year, on Subjects from Sacred History, Biography, Geography, Antiquities, and Theology. […], volume [2] (Moses and the Judges. April—June.), Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Sons; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., page 38:

His sentences were exceedingly short, and his style impressingly simple.

1850, Robert Boyle C[rawford] Howell, “A Tribute to the Memory of Rev. James Whitsitt, of Tennessee”, in Enoch Hutchinson, editor, The Baptist Memorial, and Monthly Record, […], volume IX, New York, N.Y.: Z. P. Hatch, […], page 156:

(Impressingly,) I am content with my lot, sir.

1854 June 15, Asteroid [pseudonym], “Does the Moon Rotate? Dialogue between the Lady of the Moon and a Practical Astronomer”, in United States Magazine, volume I, number 2, page 45, column 1:

The poor husband bit his lip to refrain from an angry retort, and then said impressingly, “whatever course you pursue, in one thing I am determined to be obeyed, Hannah shall remain with the children.”

1855, Madeline Leslie [pseudonym; Harriette Woods Baker], “My Husband’s Patients. No. VII. Faithful Hannah. Part II.”, in A[bijah] R[ichardson] Baker, editor, The Happy Home; […], volume II, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: […] C. Stone and Company, […], pages 110–111:

Nothing could be more perfect than the form of this city, which after sleeping for sixteen centuries, has now risen from its tomb to teach the modern nations how the ancient inhabitants of a Roman city lived; how they ate and drank, and rode and walked; how they were lodged at home; how they appeared when abroad; to tell us of their trades, their toils, their arts, their religion and their amusements; even more impressingly and perfectly, than all the books that have come down to us from antiquity.

1856, Peter Parley [pseudonym; Samuel Griswold Goodrich; indicated as editor], The Balloon Travels, of Robert Merry and His Young Friends, over Various Countries in Europe. […], New York, N.Y.: J. C. Derby, […]; Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson & Co.; Cincinnati, Oh.: H. W. Derby, page 154:

Impressingly, the BMW brand value represents over 25% of the enterprise market cap.

2016, Luc Bardin with Clara Bardin and Elsa Bardin, The Enduring Strategic Brand: How Brand-Led Organisations Over-Perform Sustainably, Chatham, Kent: Urbane Publications Ltd, published 2017, →ISBN, page 116:


unpressingly

unpressingly (comparative more unpressingly, superlative most unpressingly)

more unpressingly (comparative)
most unpressingly (superlative)

Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to such fairy-forms gave birth: / They vault with sylph-like ease and grace, / From dragons-backs, to th’ hippocampi race: / And are so light of frame, that when they roam, / They ride unpressingly the billows’ foam!

1843, J[ohann] Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jonathan Birch, Faust: A Tragedy, […], 2nd part, London: Chapman and Hall, […]; Leipsic: F[riedrich] A[rnold] Brockhaus, act II, scene vii, page 164:

It has wit and pleasant malice, but they are not sudden and apart from it, like set jewels, but are inherent in it, and do their work swiftly, casually, and unpressingly.

1928 November 10, Lionel Trilling, “Virginia Woolf’s Propaganda for Grace and Wit”, in New York Evening Post; quoted in Harvey Teres, “Lionel Trilling as Public Intellectual”, in The Word on the Street: Linking the Academy and the Common Reader (The New Public Scholarship), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, published 2014, 2011, →ISBN, part 1 (The Academy and the Public), page 79:

It possesses also a humble appeal of personality, a tone as unpressingly intimate as the touch of a hand on one’s arm.

1974, Calvin Bedient, “Philip Larkin”, in Eight Contemporary Poets: Charles Tomlinson, Donald Davie, R. S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith, W. S. Graham, London: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 77:

“Do you wish to stay for the interment?” asked Helda, formally and unpressingly.

1986 December, Lois McMaster Bujold, chapter 5, in Ethan of Athos (Vorkosigan Saga), New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, published 1994 April, →ISBN, page 81:


obscurantly

In an obscurant (that is, obscuring or obfuscating) way; in such a way as to obscure; obfuscatingly.


by an eyelash

(idiomatic) By a very small amount or distance.