lateralward

lateralward (comparative more lateralward, superlative most lateralward)

more lateralward (comparative)
most lateralward (superlative)

(anatomy) In a lateral direction; towards the side of the body.


subcortically

In terms of, or in relation to, the subcortex.


transfiguringly

en-adv

transfiguringly (comparative more transfiguringly, superlative most transfiguringly)

more transfiguringly (comparative)
most transfiguringly (superlative)

Her soul shone transfiguringly through her face, and kindled her eyes into tenderness, which her rising tears served to heighten.

1860, Henry Mills Alden, (Please provide the book title or journal name):


smackingly

smackingly (comparative more smackingly, superlative most smackingly)

more smackingly (comparative)
most smackingly (superlative)

She was, however, sensible of attention and kindness, and would occasionally smile to her nurses, or smackingly kiss them in a manner as explosive as her greeds and rages.


enactively

I was chatting with his director, and he was walking by himself a few yards behind. Suddenly I thought I heard my patient. I was extremely startled, and turned round — and saw it was Dustin thinking to himself, but thinking with his body, thinking enactively, thinking of the young autistic man he had just seen.


motorically

She becomes immensely excited, emotionally as well as motorically, many times a day, and her excitement, at such times, will assume any form which suggests itself or is appropriate[…]

(biology) In terms of the motor faculties.


desolatingly

desolatingly (comparative more desolatingly, superlative most desolatingly)

more desolatingly (comparative)
most desolatingly (superlative)

In his absence, I think, she found herself desolatingly alone, though this was never acknowledged, but covered up by her 'affable' façade.


somewhile

From Middle English summehwile, summewile, sumwile, equivalent to some + while. Compare Dutch somwijlen (“sometimes”).

Sometimes; at one time or another; from time to time; at times

Tho, under colour of shepeheards, somewhile / There crept in wolves, ful of fraude and guile.

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:


sanguinarily

sanguinarily (comparative more sanguinarily, superlative most sanguinarily)

more sanguinarily (comparative)
most sanguinarily (superlative)


sinistrously

sinistrously (comparative more sinistrously, superlative most sinistrously)

more sinistrously (comparative)
most sinistrously (superlative)

From Middle English sinistrousely, equivalent to sinistrous + -ly.

In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.

Many, in their infancy, are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed.

1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Of the Right and Left Hand:


midward

From Middle English midward, middeward, from Old English middeweard, equivalent to mid + -ward.


loobily

loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)

more loobily (comparative)
most loobily (superlative)


seemlily

seemlily (comparative more seemlily, superlative most seemlily)

more seemlily (comparative)
most seemlily (superlative)


clancularly

clancularly (comparative more clancularly, superlative most clancularly)

more clancularly (comparative)
most clancularly (superlative)


penecontemporaneously

Our study shows that chondrules formed at higher pressures relative to canonical solar nebula pressures and that some chondrules and CAIs formed penecontemporaneously.

2000 December 1, Albert Galy et al., “The Formation of Chondrules at High Gas Pressures in the Solar Nebula”, in Science, volume 290, number 5497, →DOI, pages 1751–1753:


nowdays

Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays.

1913, Agnes C. Laut, The Freebooters of the Wilderness:

I s'pose if the gen'ral run of trotters never got better 'n three 'n a half that a hoss that c'd do it in three 'd be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowdays.

1899, Edward Noyes Westcott, David Harum:

He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


facelessly

facelessly (comparative more facelessly, superlative most facelessly)

more facelessly (comparative)
most facelessly (superlative)

Social networking will turn us all into facelessly meaningless numbers on a screen.


tonically

Slow-developing changes in the population response of the tonically active neurons of the striatum, putative interneurons, have also been found [ T. Aosaki, et al., J. Neurosci.

1999 November 26, Mandar S. Jog et al., “Building Neural Representations of Habits”, in Science, volume 286, number 5445, →DOI, pages 1745–1749:

Force must not be used, but steady firm pressure against the tonically contracted cricopharyngeus is made, while at the same time the distal end of the esophagoscope is lifted by the left thumb.

1922, Chevalier Jackson, Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy:

It is too proud, too austere, too true, and too tonically cruel to appeal to mandarins.

1917, Arnold Bennett, Books and Persons:

The Bookstore, fondest of my father's resorts, though I remember no more of its public identity than that it further enriched the brave depth of Broadway, was overwhelmingly and irresistibly English, as not less tonically English was our principal host there, with whom we had moreover, my father and I, thanks to his office, such personal and genial relations that I recall seeing him grace our board at home, in company with his wife, whose vocal strain and complexion and coiffure and flounces I found none the less informing, none the less "racial," for my not being then versed in the language of analysis.

1913, Henry James, A Small Boy and Others:

The preceding, for instance, proceeds regularly in the key of G in all respects but the very ending of each strain, which takes place in the key of C. Or to speak tonically, the melody and accompaniment after being written nearly all the way in the key of Do, suddenly diverge to the key of Fa, and there close.

1891, W. S. B. Mathews, A Popular History of the Art of Music:


musicologically

Local concertgoers have become familiar with this exciting British conductor in recent years: she's presided over popular Chicago Opera Theatre productions of Monteverdi and Mozart, and in her tryout appearances with MOB she smoothly brought the group around to her musicologically informed interpretations.

2003 September 19, Ted Shen, “Music of the Baroque”, in Chicago Reader:


synodically

the alterations made by the commissioners were brought to the Convocation then sitting, where they were Synodically agreed upon

a. 1715, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church:

(religion) In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod.


convexedly

convexedly (comparative more convexedly, superlative most convexedly)

more convexedly (comparative)
most convexedly (superlative)

convexedly crooked

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:


untypically

untypically (comparative more untypically, superlative most untypically)

more untypically (comparative)
most untypically (superlative)


unimpressively

unimpressively (comparative more unimpressively, superlative most unimpressively)

more unimpressively (comparative)
most unimpressively (superlative)


alife

Saffron loueth a-life to be trampled and trod vpon.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

A busie fellow loveth a-life to step secretly into a house.

1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:

Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.

c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 50:

with all one's heart
with all one's heart

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(obsolete) with all one's heart; dearly.


neveling

From Middle English nevelinge, nevelyng, neuelinge (“flat down”, adverb), equivalent to nuel + -ling. More at nuel.


high-handedly

high-handedly (comparative more high-handedly, superlative most high-handedly)

more high-handedly (comparative)
most high-handedly (superlative)

"May heaven," answered Ulysses, "requite to them the wickedness with which they deal high-handedly in another man's house without any sense of shame."

1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XX., page 267


overlappingly

overlappingly (comparative more overlappingly, superlative most overlappingly)

more overlappingly (comparative)
most overlappingly (superlative)


slap-bang

slap-bang (comparative more slap-bang, superlative most slap-bang)

more slap-bang (comparative)
most slap-bang (superlative)

It was a stormy day and it was slap bang in the middle of the fair weather season.

You'll see the tower slap-bang in front of you when you come out of the station.


ad interim

Borrowed from Latin ad interim (“in the meantime”).


needwise

Needwise, I avoided love. I kept my mind on a short lead and my heart yet closer in; had I cared enough to look I doubt I would have recognized either of them.

2009, Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing was the same: a memoir:

By or because of necessity; according to need; by need.


needways

needways (comparative more needways, superlative most needways)

more needways (comparative)
most needways (superlative)

(Now chiefly UK dialectal) By or because of necessity; needwise.


slurringly

slurringly (comparative more slurringly, superlative most slurringly)

more slurringly (comparative)
most slurringly (superlative)

In a slurring manner; with a slurred voice.


curlingly

curlingly (comparative more curlingly, superlative most curlingly)

more curlingly (comparative)
most curlingly (superlative)

In such a way to curl, or make something curl


cretaceously

cretaceously (comparative more cretaceously, superlative most cretaceously)

more cretaceously (comparative)
most cretaceously (superlative)


tactilely

tactilely (comparative more tactilely, superlative most tactilely)

more tactilely (comparative)
most tactilely (superlative)

In a tactile manner; by, or relating to, the sense of touch.


endearedly

endearedly (comparative more endearedly, superlative most endearedly)

more endearedly (comparative)
most endearedly (superlative)

(archaic) With affection or endearment; dearly.


sheenly

sheenly (comparative more sheenly, superlative most sheenly)

more sheenly (comparative)
most sheenly (superlative)

1832?, William Motherwell, The Ritters Ride Home
The bay glitters sheenly in sunlight, / No oar shivers now its clear mirror.

Shapes of brightness overlean thee, / With their diadems of youth / Striking on thy ringlets sheenly […]

1840, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Child Asleep:


blondly

blondly (comparative more blondly, superlative most blondly)

more blondly (comparative)
most blondly (superlative)

The portrait shows Essex's hair waved, almost curled, and dark auburn, darker than the blondly reddish beard, and this might be an accident of pigments unequally deepened by time; but that's improbable.

1969, Booth Tarkington, Some old portraits: a book about art and human beings, page 1:

I got chills, while on Clym's blondly hairy foot, a mechanical beetle with copper pincers crawled amidst tattooed green and yellow crenna roothairs, to disappear under his pants' cuff.

1984, Samuel R. Delany, Carl Freedman, Stars in my pocket like grains of sand, page 85:

Calvin's younger, and blondly pretty, brother proved to be a budding backwoods aesthete.

1993, Wright Morris, Writing my life: an autobiography, page 380:


prostrately

prostrately (comparative more prostrately, superlative most prostrately)

more prostrately (comparative)
most prostrately (superlative)


gratifiedly

gratifiedly (comparative more gratifiedly, superlative most gratifiedly)

more gratifiedly (comparative)
most gratifiedly (superlative)


unsupportively

unsupportively (comparative more unsupportively, superlative most unsupportively)

more unsupportively (comparative)
most unsupportively (superlative)

When I took part in a horse race, my girlfriend unsupportively placed a bet on one of the other jockeys.


coxcomically

coxcomically (comparative more coxcomically, superlative most coxcomically)

more coxcomically (comparative)
most coxcomically (superlative)


complexionally

Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious.

1791, Edmund Burke, letter to a member of the National Assembly:

Men on such subjects complexionally differ from each other.

1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States:


stigmatically

With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.


elaboratively

elaboratively (comparative more elaboratively, superlative most elaboratively)

more elaboratively (comparative)
most elaboratively (superlative)


mewingly

mewingly (comparative more mewingly, superlative most mewingly)

more mewingly (comparative)
most mewingly (superlative)

Later the cat arrived back at deponent's place with very sore feet and was found mewingly located in front of the box in the garage where deponent kept his supply of tire patches.

Sea birds swooped and dived over the surf and called mewingly to one another.

2007, Katherine Hill, The Oxwagon List, page 73:


concretively

concretively (comparative more concretively, superlative most concretively)

more concretively (comparative)
most concretively (superlative)


closehanded

closehanded (comparative more closehanded, superlative most closehanded)

more closehanded (comparative)
most closehanded (superlative)

As a reporter, I became aware of the problems whistleblowers face closehanded back when I was covering government and local government in Des Moines, Iowa.

1976, United States Congress: Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, Federal Employee Disclosure Act of 1975, S. 1210, page 21:


suingly

From suing + -ly; see sue (“to follow”).

a yongling, whom he suingly pursued

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:


manlessly

manlessly (comparative more manlessly, superlative most manlessly)

more manlessly (comparative)
most manlessly (superlative)

[L]et her vvounds / Manleſly digd in her, be eaſd and cur'd / VVith balme of thine ovvne teares: […]

1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, page 68:

Thus furie-like ſhe [Andromache] vvent, / Tvvo vvomen (as ſhe vvill'd) at hand; and made her quicke aſcent / Vp to the tovvre, and preaſſe of men; her ſpirit in vprore. Round / She caſt her greedy eye, and ſavv, her Hector ſlaine, and bound / T' Achilles chariot; manleſly, dragg'd to the Grecian fleet.

[1611?], Homer, “The XXII. Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 307:


placelessly

What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:


invokingly

invokingly (comparative more invokingly, superlative most invokingly)

more invokingly (comparative)
most invokingly (superlative)

But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


unreluctantly

unreluctantly (comparative more unreluctantly, superlative most unreluctantly)

more unreluctantly (comparative)
most unreluctantly (superlative)


first and last

He is a gentleman, first and last.

I had been a cad, a scoundrel, first and last. Sofia had been courageous in her misfortune; she had never wished to be a burden on me; she had hidden nothing from me as regards her past; I had sworn that her past no longer mattered, and then I had beaten her nearly to death.

1937, Gian Dàuli, The Wheel Turns, page 345:


parliamentarily

parliamentarily (comparative more parliamentarily, superlative most parliamentarily)

more parliamentarily (comparative)
most parliamentarily (superlative)

In a parliamentary manner; in the context of parliament or via parliamente.


phrenologically

... certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one.

1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 10:

His brow was of the sort phrenologically associated with more than average intellect […]

1924, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:


uninvitedly

This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.


primevally

primevally (comparative more primevally, superlative most primevally)

more primevally (comparative)
most primevally (superlative)

Some authors suppose that man primevally lived in single families; but at the present day, though single families, or only two or three together, roam the solitudes of some savage lands, they are always, as far as I can discover, friendly with other families inhabiting the same district.

1871, Charles Darwin, “Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals—continued”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part I (On the Descent of Man), page 84:

When we rubbed along thus jovially, deeming life to be "a great and glorious thing," fat cows were well sold at £2 per head, and bullocks at £3. Certainly you could buy stores (or, as they primevally called them, "lean cattle") at from 10s. to 16s., prices which left a margin. The Messrs. Manifold bought a large number of bullocks from the Shelleys, of Tumut, at the latter price, somewhere about the year 1845. How they fattened at Purrumbeet and Leura may be imagined! They fetched top prices, but were not thought to pay so well as the early ripening station-breds, on which the 3M brand was thenceforth chiefly placed.

1896, Rolf Boldrewood, Old Melbourne Memories, Chapter 9:

'Interesting, Doctor, is it not? It would be beautiful in a way, primevally beautiful—an idyll of the callow world when the rocks were jagged like molten lead thrown into water, the vegetation chiefly fungoid, and it was necessary to clip the wings of one's horned cattle. But for the man—he is a late, mongrel, low-grade production, with merely a few primitive impulses. '

1905, Henry C. Rowland, The Mountain of Fears, Two Savages:

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.


lurchingly

lurchingly (comparative more lurchingly, superlative most lurchingly)

more lurchingly (comparative)
most lurchingly (superlative)

With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.


defyingly

defyingly (comparative more defyingly, superlative most defyingly)

more defyingly (comparative)
most defyingly (superlative)

[…] while in the open air of the deck some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and defyingly enough towards their commander […]


dreely

dreely (comparative dreelier or more dreely, superlative dreeliest or most dreely)

dreelier (comparative)
more dreely (comparative)
dreeliest (superlative)
most dreely (superlative)

From Middle English drely, dreȝly, dreghly, dryȝly, equivalent to dree + -ly. Cognate with Scots dreichly (“steadily, copiously”).

(Now chiefly dialectal) Highly; largely; nobly; earnestly.

(Now chiefly dialectal) Slowly; tediously.


supererogatorily

supererogatorily (comparative more supererogatorily, superlative most supererogatorily)

more supererogatorily (comparative)
most supererogatorily (superlative)


cumbrously

cumbrously (comparative more cumbrously, superlative most cumbrously)

more cumbrously (comparative)
most cumbrously (superlative)


bamboozlingly

bamboozlingly (comparative more bamboozlingly, superlative most bamboozlingly)

more bamboozlingly (comparative)
most bamboozlingly (superlative)


techily

techily (comparative more techily, superlative most techily)

more techily (comparative)
most techily (superlative)


chalkily

chalkily (comparative more chalkily, superlative most chalkily)

more chalkily (comparative)
most chalkily (superlative)

She turned chalkily white on hearing the bad news.


racingly

racingly (comparative more racingly, superlative most racingly)

more racingly (comparative)
most racingly (superlative)

A car sped racingly past.

We watched a heart-racingly tense thriller.


promptingly

promptingly (comparative more promptingly, superlative most promptingly)

more promptingly (comparative)
most promptingly (superlative)

"There's something we've been meaning to tell you," I began, and looked promptingly at the others.

So as to prompt; as if giving somebody a cue to do something.


articularly

articularly (comparative more articularly, superlative most articularly)

more articularly (comparative)
most articularly (superlative)


southly

southly (comparative more southly, superlative most southly)

more southly (comparative)
most southly (superlative)


coincidingly

coincidingly (comparative more coincidingly, superlative most coincidingly)

more coincidingly (comparative)
most coincidingly (superlative)


a mensa et thoro

/eɪ ˈmɛnsə ˌɛt ˈθɔːɹəʊ/

Learned borrowing from Latin a mensa et thoro (“from board and bed”).

lbor

By the recent statute 20 & 21 Viet c. 85, § 7, no divorce can in future be granted à mensa et thoro, but a decree of judicial separation is to be pronounced, having the like effect.

1867, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, “Divorce a mensa et thoro”, in A Law Dictionary and Glossary, page 504:

(historical, law, of a divorce) Such as not to dissolve the marriage bond, but merely to authorize the husband and wife to live apart from each other.


clarifyingly

en-adv

clarifyingly (comparative more clarifyingly, superlative most clarifyingly)

more clarifyingly (comparative)
most clarifyingly (superlative)


tangledly

tangledly (comparative more tangledly, superlative most tangledly)

more tangledly (comparative)
most tangledly (superlative)


clitorally

My husband stimulates me clitorally.

1973, Seymour Fisher, The female orgasm: psychology, physiology, fantasy:

In terms of, or by means of, the clitoris.


polarily

/pəʊˈlæɹɪli/

/pəʊˈlɛɹɪli/

Now, if an iron be touched before, it varieth not in this manner; for then it admits not this magnetical impression, as being already informed by the loadstone, and polarily determined by its preaction.

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) In a polary manner; with polarity.


girlily

girlily (comparative more girlily, superlative most girlily)

more girlily (comparative)
most girlily (superlative)

(nonstandard, rare) Girlishly; in a girly way.


hindward

hindward (comparative more hindward, superlative most hindward)

more hindward (comparative)
most hindward (superlative)

From Middle English hindward, hindeward, from Old English hindanweard, equivalent to hind (“behind”) + -ward.


wastingly

wastingly (comparative more wastingly, superlative most wastingly)

more wastingly (comparative)
most wastingly (superlative)

As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents.

1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Scribner, published 1902, page 295:

In a way that causes wastage; wastefully.


suckingly

suckingly (comparative more suckingly, superlative most suckingly)

more suckingly (comparative)
most suckingly (superlative)

[…] but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up — my God! poor Tashtego — like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling went clean out of sight!


physiognomically

Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature. He has no proper nose.


suently

suently (comparative more suently, superlative most suently)

more suently (comparative)
most suently (superlative)


dioeciously

A dioeciously hermaphrodite plant has flowers structurally perfect, but practically dioecious, those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.


clewless

clewless (comparative more clewless, superlative most clewless)

more clewless (comparative)
most clewless (superlative)

He wandered clewless in a maze of mystery.

2007, Julian Hawthorne, Idolatry, →ISBN, page 209:

Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)


politicly

politicly (comparative more politicly, superlative most politicly)

more politicly (comparative)
most politicly (superlative)

I must be ignorant indeed not to know, that the Duchess, ever since you met, hath been most politicly employed in increasing those forces, and sharpening those arms with which she subdued you at first […]


catchweight

They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks.

1976 December 3, “Oldtimers race is well received”, in El Paso Herald-Post:

to ride catchweight

(horse racing) Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.


swoopstake

Is't writ in your revenge,
That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,
Winner and loser?

1623, Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 4, scene 5

All at once, without making distinctions.


rethe

rethe (comparative rether or more rethe, superlative rethest or most rethe)

rether (comparative)
more rethe (comparative)
rethest (superlative)
most rethe (superlative)

From Middle English reth, rethe, from Old English rēþe (“fierce, cruel, savage, severe, stern, austere, zealous, wild, dire”), from Proto-West Germanic *rōþī, from Proto-Germanic *rōþijaz (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey-, *rēy- (“to scream, shout, roar, bellow, bark, growl”). Cognate with Scots reithe, reythe, reth (“rethe”), Old High German ruod (“a roar”), Middle High German rüeden (“to be noisy”), Bavarian rüeden (“to be noisy, roar, be in heat”).

cog

(Now chiefly dialectal) Furiously; violently; wildly.


obsessionally

en-adv

obsessionally (comparative more obsessionally, superlative most obsessionally)

more obsessionally (comparative)
most obsessionally (superlative)


mercantilely

mercantilely (comparative more mercantilely, superlative most mercantilely)

more mercantilely (comparative)
most mercantilely (superlative)

We have just past the last alternation of depression, and fair winds of prosperity (mercantilely speaking) are again beginning to swell the sails of commerce — all will again be activity and hope, and the golden harvest in perspective will obliterate the pain of the losses and punishment which have lately past; […]

1838, “Prospective Changes in Mechanics”, in The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal:


a-mornings

(obsolete) Alternative form of amornings


tactually

tactually (comparative more tactually, superlative most tactually)

more tactually (comparative)
most tactually (superlative)

We have seen, again and again, that patients’ own kinetic melodies can be given back to them, albeit briefly, by the use of an appropriate flow of music […]. Other ‘natural’ motions of Nature and Art are equally potent if experienced visually or tactually.

1973, Oliver Sacks, “Parkinsonian Space and Time”, in Awakenings, Penguin, published 1976, page 348:

In a tactual manner; by, or relating to, the sense of touch.


haemad

haemad (comparative more haemad, superlative most haemad)

more haemad (comparative)
most haemad (superlative)

(anatomy, archaic) Toward the haemal side.


Quranically

Quranically (comparative more Quranically, superlative most Quranically)

more Quranically (comparative)
most Quranically (superlative)

The Quran modified this system by introducing the golden rule of inheritance, the primacy of distribution of certain fixed shares to several categories of Quranically designated heirs comprised mainly of the nearest female relatives […]

1982, John L. Esposito, Women in Muslim Family Law, page 5:

In his study of memory skills in Moroccan children, Wagner (1978) found no differences between unschooled and Quranically schooled children on most tasks.

1983, William Fowler, Potentials of Childhood:

[…] some scholars argue that these modern gains have not gone far enough in securing women's Quranically ordained rights.

2011, John L. Esposito, What everyone needs to know about Islam, page 160:

In terms of, or in the context of, the Qur'an.


confirmingly

confirmingly (comparative more confirmingly, superlative most confirmingly)

more confirmingly (comparative)
most confirmingly (superlative)

“There's quite a variety of whales here,” Robert said. Gerd nodded confirmingly.

1994, Anne Provoost, My Aunt is a Pilot Whale, page 153:

Gerald played along and said, “Hello, Barry,” and not only seized his hand but covered it confirmingly with his other hand, as if he was canvassing […]

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

So as to confirm; in a confirming manner.


rebuffingly

rebuffingly (comparative more rebuffingly, superlative most rebuffingly)

more rebuffingly (comparative)
most rebuffingly (superlative)


cloakedly

cloakedly (comparative more cloakedly, superlative most cloakedly)

more cloakedly (comparative)
most cloakedly (superlative)


paraventure

From Middle English paraventure, peraventure. Equivalent to par + aventure.


judgementally

judgementally (comparative more judgementally, superlative most judgementally)

more judgementally (comparative)
most judgementally (superlative)


eggily

eggily (comparative more eggily, superlative most eggily)

more eggily (comparative)
most eggily (superlative)


crotchetily

crotchetily (comparative more crotchetily, superlative most crotchetily)

more crotchetily (comparative)
most crotchetily (superlative)


misadvisedly

misadvisedly (comparative more misadvisedly, superlative most misadvisedly)

more misadvisedly (comparative)
most misadvisedly (superlative)


Protestantly

Protestantly (comparative more Protestantly, superlative most Protestantly)

more Protestantly (comparative)
most Protestantly (superlative)

To Protestants, therefore, whose common rule and touchstone is the Scripture, nothing can with more conscience, more equity, nothing more Protestantly can be permitted, than a free and lawful debate at all times by writing, conference, or disputation of what opinion soever, disputable by Scripture ; concluding that no man in religion is properly a heretic at this day, but he who maintains traditions or opinions not probable by Scripture, who for aught I know is the Papist only ; he the only heretic who counts all heretics but himself.

1659, John Milton, Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes:

Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism.


introvertly

introvertly (comparative more introvertly, superlative most introvertly)

more introvertly (comparative)
most introvertly (superlative)


racistly

racistly (comparative more racistly, superlative most racistly)

more racistly (comparative)
most racistly (superlative)

However, cultural pluralism was rejected by many whites, who ethnocentrically and racistly affirmed the inherent superiority of their own group, and who maintained that accommodation between the races could be established only on the basis of dominance and submission. They demanded separateness, but not equality.

1968, Elliott M. Rudwick, (Please provide the book title or journal name), University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 298:

The only way that the world is ever going to be free is when the youth of this country moves with every principle of human respect and with every soft spot we have in our hearts for human life, in a fashion that lets the pig power structure know that when people are racistly and fascistically attacked, the youth will put a foot in their butts and make their blood chill.

1970 March 5, Bobby Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton, Black Classic Press, published 1991, →ISBN, →OL:

In his senility, he still loves racistly, blesses racistly, shoots straight and is cuckoo with the notion that white folks are not white folks but just plain folks.

1981, Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman; And, The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays, Seattle: University of Washington Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 3:


realizingly

realizingly (comparative more realizingly, superlative most realizingly)

more realizingly (comparative)
most realizingly (superlative)

So as to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality.


hagiographically

hagiographically (comparative more hagiographically, superlative most hagiographically)

more hagiographically (comparative)
most hagiographically (superlative)


geolinguistically

Geolinguistically, Chabacano can be divided into two main varieties: Manila Bay Creole (MBC) and Southern Mindanao Creole (SMC).

2009, Patrick O. Steinkrüger, Manfred Krifka, On Inflection, page 220:

In a geolinguistic manner or context; in terms of geolinguistics.


oblately

oblately (comparative more oblately, superlative most oblately)

more oblately (comparative)
most oblately (superlative)

oblately spheroidal


affrontively

affrontively (comparative more affrontively, superlative most affrontively)

more affrontively (comparative)
most affrontively (superlative)

In an affrontive manner; so as to offend.


unsmoothly

unsmoothly (comparative more unsmoothly, superlative most unsmoothly)

more unsmoothly (comparative)
most unsmoothly (superlative)


smoothingly

smoothingly (comparative more smoothingly, superlative most smoothingly)

more smoothingly (comparative)
most smoothingly (superlative)


incisely

(botany) In an incised manner, in a V-shape


antidemocratically

antidemocratically (comparative more antidemocratically, superlative most antidemocratically)

more antidemocratically (comparative)
most antidemocratically (superlative)

Yet, at the same time, an overabundance of obfuscation also acts to promote antidemocratically a reliance on specialists and experts to give meaning to policy choices.

2008, Jacob Park, Ken Conca, Matthias Finger, The crisis of global environmental governance, page 164:

Contrary to democracy; in a way that opposes democracy.


catatonically

catatonically (comparative more catatonically, superlative most catatonically)

more catatonically (comparative)
most catatonically (superlative)

With, or as if with, catatonia; rigidly, mechanically


platly

platly (comparative more platly, superlative most platly)

more platly (comparative)
most platly (superlative)


overambitiously

overambitiously (comparative more overambitiously, superlative most overambitiously)

more overambitiously (comparative)
most overambitiously (superlative)


yearward

yearward (comparative more yearward, superlative most yearward)

more yearward (comparative)
most yearward (superlative)

In looking yearward at this time, it is difficult to forecast the immediate future of the lumber business, because of the War.

In the direction of the year as a whole; toward the remainder of the year.


commensurably

commensurably (comparative more commensurably, superlative most commensurably)

more commensurably (comparative)
most commensurably (superlative)

In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.


Christly

It is Christly hot. She wipes her forehead with the back of her hand.

1986, The Malahat Review, numbers 73-76, page 104:


pectorally

In a pectoral manner, i.e. about or through the breast


ecophilosophically

In an ecophilosophical manner or context.


schizoanalytically

schizoanalytically (comparative more schizoanalytically, superlative most schizoanalytically)

more schizoanalytically (comparative)
most schizoanalytically (superlative)

In a schizoanalytical manner or context.


transformationally

transformationally (comparative more transformationally, superlative most transformationally)

more transformationally (comparative)
most transformationally (superlative)

In a transformational manner or context.


underminingly

underminingly (comparative more underminingly, superlative most underminingly)

more underminingly (comparative)
most underminingly (superlative)


suggestingly

suggestingly (comparative more suggestingly, superlative most suggestingly)

more suggestingly (comparative)
most suggestingly (superlative)


enjoyingly

enjoyingly (comparative more enjoyingly, superlative most enjoyingly)

more enjoyingly (comparative)
most enjoyingly (superlative)

There he sat, high above his neighbours, smiling, and nodding his great head enjoyingly, from time to time.

1860, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White, page 239:


undercuttingly

undercuttingly (comparative more undercuttingly, superlative most undercuttingly)

more undercuttingly (comparative)
most undercuttingly (superlative)

In Boston Opera after the Maeterlincks left town, Russell undercuttingly brought Mary Garden over from Chicago for Pelleas and Melisande to close the third season. Financials showed “a loss slightly above” the previous year.

2016, Dall Wilson, Alice Nielsen and the Gayety of Nations, page 529:


assertionally

assertionally (comparative more assertionally, superlative most assertionally)

more assertionally (comparative)
most assertionally (superlative)

In a way that uses or relates to assertion.


geophilosophically

geophilosophically (comparative more geophilosophically, superlative most geophilosophically)

more geophilosophically (comparative)
most geophilosophically (superlative)

In a geophilosophical manner or context.


slatily

slatily (comparative more slatily, superlative most slatily)

more slatily (comparative)
most slatily (superlative)


blanketly

That foul culpability went unaddressed by John Paul II. Not so much glossed over as blanketly ignored.

2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 161:

to blanketly apply a rule

In a blanket manner: in a manner that covers or encompasses all of the things under consideration (sometimes despite differences among the various things).


nonelliptically

In a way that is not elliptical; without ellipsis.


susurringly

susurringly (comparative more susurringly, superlative most susurringly)

more susurringly (comparative)
most susurringly (superlative)

(obsolete, rare) In the manner of a whisper.


folkloristically

folkloristically (comparative more folkloristically, superlative most folkloristically)

more folkloristically (comparative)
most folkloristically (superlative)


codependently

codependently (comparative more codependently, superlative most codependently)

more codependently (comparative)
most codependently (superlative)


structuralistically

structuralistically (comparative more structuralistically, superlative most structuralistically)

more structuralistically (comparative)
most structuralistically (superlative)


psychogeographically

psychogeographically (comparative more psychogeographically, superlative most psychogeographically)

more psychogeographically (comparative)
most psychogeographically (superlative)

In a psychogeographical manner or context.


intentionalistically

intentionalistically (comparative more intentionalistically, superlative most intentionalistically)

more intentionalistically (comparative)
most intentionalistically (superlative)


bathymetrically

Bluefin tuna show bathymetrically constrained diving while on the shallow continental shelf in the Carolinas and New England, and much deeper dives (maximum 1000 m) while offshore.

2001 August 17, Barbara A. Block et al., “Migratory Movements, Depth Preferences, and Thermal Biology of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna”, in Science, volume 293, number 5533, →DOI, pages 1310–1314:


blushfully

blushfully (comparative more blushfully, superlative most blushfully)

more blushfully (comparative)
most blushfully (superlative)

He retired blushfully to the pavilion, amidst applause, and Stone came out.


stalely

stalely (comparative more stalely, superlative most stalely)

more stalely (comparative)
most stalely (superlative)

Tut, all your promis'd mountains, And seas, I am so stalely acquainted with

1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):


scaredly

scaredly (comparative more scaredly, superlative most scaredly)

more scaredly (comparative)
most scaredly (superlative)

He then turned round and looked scaredly at Crean and myself.

1921, Edward R. G. R. Evans, South with Scott:

Wha, like the stricken deer, chased by the hunter's spear, Fled frae the hills o' his father sae scaredly; But wha, by affection's chart, reigns in auld Scotland's heart-- Wha but the royal, the gallant Prince Charlie?

1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.:


yebo

But Sipho was more sympathetic. “Don't worry. We'll take you to Father. He'll know what to do.”
“Father?” asked Jabu, surprised.
“Yebo,” said Sipho brightly.
“Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.


wunst

"Mrs Harris," I says to her, "none on us knows what we can do till we tries; and wunst, when me and Gamp kept 'ouse, I thought so too.

1842–44, Charles Dickens, Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit:

Wouldn't they let him and Sam off this wunst?

1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,:

"If it was just for wunst," she had begun, when Tishy tweaked her sleeve viciously and interpolated a rapid whisper, "It wont be; there'll be no ind to it if you begin humourin' them," so the sentence was badly dislocated.

1895, Barlow Jane, Strangers at Lisconnel:

By way of an incident: a pair of these primitives were overheard chatting about the resorters, one day, and in the course of their talk this remark was dropped: "I was a-drivin' a passel of 'em round about yisterday evenin', quiet ones, you know, still and solemn, and all to wunst they busted out to make your hair lift and I judged hell was to pay.

1906, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography:

"Skim, you 'member in thet las' book we read, 'The Angel Maniac's Revenge,' there was a sayin' that fate knocks wunst on ev'ry man's door.

1908, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville:

"Well, ma'am," remarked the Cap'n, dryly, as he seated himself in another chair, "I've waded across a cove wunst or twice at low water."

1911, Holman Day, The Skipper and the Skipped:

Obsolete spelling of once., Pronunciation spelling of once.


campward

Sometimes as many as four or six of our company, having leave of absence at the same time, would rendezvous to return together in the small hours of the night, through Rocketts, where "hold-ups" were not uncommon, and recount our various experiences as we proceeded campward.

1907, Edward A. Moore, The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson:

And as the cheery cry swelled farther and farther, the train drew out, everybody looking from the windows as the patient soldiery straggled back campward. "

1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:

[…] if I had foretold these things as they were to occur, I wonder if the "pause before the storm" would have been less awful, and our ride campward less sedate.


undecently

undecently (comparative more undecently, superlative most undecently)

more undecently (comparative)
most undecently (superlative)

Philosophie hath done me the pleasure to judge, that so honorable an action, had been undecently [translating indecemment] placed in any other life, than in Catoes[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:


plenarily

plenarily (comparative more plenarily, superlative most plenarily)

more plenarily (comparative)
most plenarily (superlative)

(mathematics) In the most complete limiting case.


combustibly

combustibly (comparative more combustibly, superlative most combustibly)

more combustibly (comparative)
most combustibly (superlative)

So it's not surprising that Terry McCabe's theatrically assured, combustibly comic staging is superior to Borealis Theatre's revival two months ago.

2003 November 28, Lawrence Bommer, “The Play's the Thing”, in Chicago Reader:

All at once holding his sides, he found a little breath and cried combustibly: "A can-can!"

1913, Owen Johnson, Murder in Any Degree:


hard by

He attendeth here hard by,
 To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

So the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their accounts.

1660 February 15 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 5th, 1659–1660 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 339:

After we had dispatched our compliments to each other, and I had awkwardly returned in country scrapes his a la mode bows and cringes, he needs must prevail with me to join him at a tavern hard by and dine with some gentlemen of his acquaintance.

So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.

1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:


presuppositionally

presuppositionally (comparative more presuppositionally, superlative most presuppositionally)

more presuppositionally (comparative)
most presuppositionally (superlative)

In a presuppositional manner or context.


rangily

rangily (comparative more rangily, superlative most rangily)

more rangily (comparative)
most rangily (superlative)

The crowds saw her first as she warmed up for her qualifying heat in the 100 meters. She was almost six feet tall, flat chested, long necked, and appeared rather rangily relaxed as she crouched for the start.

1971, Richard D. Mandell, The Nazi Olympics, page 214:


stormingly

stormingly (comparative more stormingly, superlative most stormingly)

more stormingly (comparative)
most stormingly (superlative)

a stormingly bad temper


stormfully

stormfully (comparative more stormfully, superlative most stormfully)

more stormfully (comparative)
most stormfully (superlative)


dissentiously

dissentiously (comparative more dissentiously, superlative most dissentiously)

more dissentiously (comparative)
most dissentiously (superlative)


scorningly

scorningly (comparative more scorningly, superlative most scorningly)

more scorningly (comparative)
most scorningly (superlative)


prolongingly

prolongingly (comparative more prolongingly, superlative most prolongingly)

more prolongingly (comparative)
most prolongingly (superlative)

a voice that prolongingly moulded every word

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 128, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


plungingly

plungingly (comparative more plungingly, superlative most plungingly)

more plungingly (comparative)
most plungingly (superlative)

The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


peeringly

peeringly (comparative more peeringly, superlative most peeringly)

more peeringly (comparative)
most peeringly (superlative)

[…] most mariners cherish a very superstitious feeling about seals, arising not only from their peculiar tones when in distress, but also from the human look of their round heads and semi-intelligent faces, seen peeringly uprising from the water alongside.


untrackably

untrackably (comparative more untrackably, superlative most untrackably)

more untrackably (comparative)
most untrackably (superlative)

[…] one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.


outspreadingly

outspreadingly (comparative more outspreadingly, superlative most outspreadingly)

more outspreadingly (comparative)
most outspreadingly (superlative)

The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.


intermixingly

intermixingly (comparative more intermixingly, superlative most intermixingly)

more intermixingly (comparative)
most intermixingly (superlative)

But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, […]


planetarily

planetarily (comparative more planetarily, superlative most planetarily)

more planetarily (comparative)
most planetarily (superlative)

For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made […]

In a planetary manner or context; like planets.


draggingly

draggingly (comparative more draggingly, superlative most draggingly)

more draggingly (comparative)
most draggingly (superlative)

"The harpoon," said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm — "is it safe?"

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

In a way that drags; with a dragging motion.

The children began to sing draggingly. Half a dozen carried the first verse through alone.

Slowly; with reluctance, or as if held back.


overcuriously

overcuriously (comparative more overcuriously, superlative most overcuriously)

more overcuriously (comparative)
most overcuriously (superlative)

/əʊvəˈkjʊəɹɪəsli/

And Plato deemes it to be a vice of impiety, over-curiously to enquire after God, after the world, and after the first causes of things.

With too much curiosity; in an overcurious manner.


arew

all her teeth arew

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:

Twelve lodgings of like stone, like height, were likewise built arew.

[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:


cruellie

cruellie (comparative more cruellie, superlative most cruellie)

more cruellie (comparative)
most cruellie (superlative)

For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speake, kepe silence, sit, stand, or go, eate, drinke, be merie, or sad, be sowyng, plaiyng, dauncing, or doing anie thing els, I must do it, as it were, in soch weight, mesure, and number, euen so perfitelie, as God made the world, or else I am so sharplie taunted, so cruellie threatened, yea presentlie some tymes, with pinches, nippes, and bobbes, and other waies, which 202 The first booke teachyng I will not name, for the honor I beare them, so without measure misordered, that I thinke my selfe in hell, till tyme cum, that I must go to M. Elmer, who teacheth me so ientlie, so pleasantlie, with soch faire allurementes to learning, that I thinke all the tyme nothing, whiles I am with him.

For on a time the Sheepe, to whom of yore 1205 The Foxe had promised of friendship store, What time the Ape the kingdome first did gaine, Came to the court, her case there to complaine; How that the Wolfe, her mortall enemie, Had sithence slaine her lambe most cruellie; 1210 [Sithence, since.]

1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:


disfavorably

disfavorably (comparative more disfavorably, superlative most disfavorably)

more disfavorably (comparative)
most disfavorably (superlative)


a-cock-horse

We have yet a thousand medailes and monuments, namely, of that honest woman Faustina, wherein that Eagle is represented, carrying a cock-horse a dead goat up towards heaven those Deified soules.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Then placing the stretcher between his legs in the manner that little boys ride a-cock-horse upon their grand-papa's canes, he began most dolefully to dole out the following ditty.

1847, E Howard, chapter XX, in The Old Commodore:

(archaic) Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.


strainably

strainably (comparative more strainably, superlative most strainably)

more strainably (comparative)
most strainably (superlative)

I cannot therefore assail her
With pitiful plaint and scalding fyer,
That out of my breast doth strainably start

a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Rondeaux:


fixly

fixly (comparative more fixly, superlative most fixly)

more fixly (comparative)
most fixly (superlative)

And when he made the Sunne and fire to be all one, he forgot, that fire doth not tan and blacke those he looketh upon; that wee fixly [translating fixement] looke upon the fire, and that fire consumeth and killeth all plants and hearbs.


twittingly

twittingly (comparative more twittingly, superlative most twittingly)

more twittingly (comparative)
most twittingly (superlative)

In a reproachful manner; with upbraiding.


gesturingly

gesturingly (comparative more gesturingly, superlative most gesturingly)

more gesturingly (comparative)
most gesturingly (superlative)


saturnally

saturnally (comparative more saturnally, superlative most saturnally)

more saturnally (comparative)
most saturnally (superlative)

according as they have more or lesse removed themselves from their spirituality, so are they more or lesse merily and Giovially, or rudely and Saturnally incorporated: Whence proceedeth the infinite variety of so much matter created.

But if it be requisite to narrate what follows from the conception of Porphyry, it must be said, that the soul lives indeed intellectually and Saturnally on high, but descends first to the conception of a political life, which is Jovian.

1820, Proclus, translated by Thomas Taylor, Commentaries on the Timæus of Plato, section I:

(rare) Under the influence of Saturn; gloomily.


expandingly

expandingly (comparative more expandingly, superlative most expandingly)

more expandingly (comparative)
most expandingly (superlative)


starvedly

starvedly (comparative more starvedly, superlative most starvedly)

more starvedly (comparative)
most starvedly (superlative)

[S]ecurity and ignorance may ſcatter ſome refuſe morſels of ioy, ſavvced vvith much bitterneſſe: or may be like ſome boaſting houſkeeper, vvhich keepeth open dores for one day vvhich much cheer, and liues ſtaruedly all the yere after.

1605, Jos[eph] Hall, “Paragraph 24”, in Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall. […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter, →OCLC, 1st book, page 75:

In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.


gesticulatingly

gesticulatingly (comparative more gesticulatingly, superlative most gesticulatingly)

more gesticulatingly (comparative)
most gesticulatingly (superlative)


distressedly

distressedly (comparative more distressedly, superlative most distressedly)

more distressedly (comparative)
most distressedly (superlative)

Sally said distressedly: "Oh, Mike, it's all true and I'm so sorry!"

Marjorie caught it in her hand, where it lay palpitating distressedly; and thrusting her arm through a broken pane of glass, allowed the creature to escape.

1922, Edith Lavell, The Girl Scouts' Good Turn:

She looked distressedly at his table.

1908, Ethel Turner, In the Mist of the Mountains:

As she remained looking at him with bright, curious eyes, but still shaking her fair head distressedly, he moved nearer and caught her hand in the little pale lilac thread glove that was, nevertheless, too wide for her small fingers, and said appealingly: "But why should YOU forget it?

1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows and Other Stories:


dahn

At the end o' the six paces yer cuts yer 'and away an' brings it smartly dahn ter yer side an' looks to yer front.

He's got a kind of a way with him an' he sits dahn with the like of huz, and he talks to us as if we was men in place o' bein' cattle, which is the way with most on 'em.

1904, David Christie Murray, VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea:


one-sidely

The observers most adequately list the different aspects of this insight and yet emphasize somewhat one-sidely the patient's need for love as the most important motivating factor.

1994, Samuel Eisenstein, Norman A. Levy, Judd Marmor, The Dyadic Transaction:

More than that, it reveals a one-sidely individualistic view of our humanity.

1995, David K. Clark, Robert Vincent Rakestraw, Readings in Christian Ethics: Issues and applications:


sidely

From Middle English *sideli (adj), sideli (adverb), equivalent to side + -ly. Cognate with German seitlich (“lateral”). Compare also sideling.

[…] satisfying her homosexuality with the keeping of a secret scrapbook of pictures of favorite male actors or athletes or by supervising the activities of young boys or visiting turkish^([sic]) baths or mens^([sic]) locker rooms, leering sidely while seeking protection behind a carefully guarded guise of virility […]

1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press:

(rare, nonstandard) To the side; sideways; laterally; sideling; obliquely; indirectly.


disertly

disertly (comparative more disertly, superlative most disertly)

more disertly (comparative)
most disertly (superlative)

Which Contract and Marriage are related in the Act of Parliament aforesaid, where it is disertly called a former Marriage, and the King had a childe by her

1647, George Buck et al., The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third:

(obsolete) expressly; clearly; eloquently


same-minded

same-minded (comparative more same-minded, superlative most same-minded)

more same-minded (comparative)
most same-minded (superlative)

From same + minded. Compare like-minded.

Paul thus asks the single-minded and integer ones to walk same-minded, uttering hereby his confidence that the Lord makes this unity possible, no matter what different opinions the brethren may have.

2006, Lucie Bardiau-Huys, The Kingdom in the Republic:

With the same mind or mindset; in an agreeable or harmonious way.


distinguishably

distinguishably (comparative more distinguishably, superlative most distinguishably)

more distinguishably (comparative)
most distinguishably (superlative)

The two distinguishably younger samples (5013 and 8034, from the Maranhão and Cassiporé, respectively) are from the northernmost portion of the Brazilian CAMP. A similar relation is shown on the African continental margin in Guinea (4 ).

1999 April 23, Andrea Marzoli et al., “Extensive 200-Million-Year-Old Continental Flood Basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province”, in Science, volume 284, number 5414, →DOI, pages 616–618:


a-vie

a-vie (comparative more a-vie, superlative most a-vie)

more a-vie (comparative)
most a-vie (superlative)

Our mind doth likewise take revenge of it, they lie, they cog, and deceive one another a vie.


quickeningly

quickeningly (comparative more quickeningly, superlative most quickeningly)

more quickeningly (comparative)
most quickeningly (superlative)

So as to quicken or bring to life; animatingly.

a pulse-quickeningly frightening film


subaudi

From the Latin subaudī, the second-person singular present active imperative form of subaudiō (“I understand, I supply a word”), from sub (“under”) + audiō (“I hear, I listen”).

We ought not to say that a scorn of popular favour betrays itself — as if subaudite — in these deliverances of a message from the Almighty; yet it is almost so.

1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 54:

By the ‘watchers’ are intended subaudité the guardians of the composer.

1907, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, page 5:


contemningly

contemningly (comparative more contemningly, superlative most contemningly)

more contemningly (comparative)
most contemningly (superlative)


starchly

starchly (comparative more starchly, superlative most starchly)

more starchly (comparative)
most starchly (superlative)

Starchly Crisp; hole cancelled

1969, The Numismatist, volume 82, page 1496:

I did not see that quilting made me a Jake, and I replied starchly, "Madam, I purchased these fabrics on my walk just now."

2001, Sandra Dallas, Alice's Tulips: A Novel, page 116:

But then, as Bell told Kunta later, from the moment the first carriage arrived, Missy Anne suddenly had acted as if she didn't even know the starchly uniformed aproned Kizzy, who kept circulating among the guests bearing trays of refreshments, “till de po' chile come bustin' in de kitchen cryin' her eyes out.”

2007, Alex Haley, Roots-Thirtieth Anniversary Edition: The Saga of an American Family:

(rare) In a starched or starchy manner; stiffly, formally


strivingly

strivingly (comparative more strivingly, superlative most strivingly)

more strivingly (comparative)
most strivingly (superlative)


heedily

heedily (comparative more heedily, superlative most heedily)

more heedily (comparative)
most heedily (superlative)

if heedily he endevour to measure and count them, he shall finde that what he did by nature and chance, he cannot doe it so exactly by desseign.


subaudite

From the Latin subaudīte, the second-person plural present active imperative form of subaudiō.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:subaudite.

By or relying upon mental suppletion (by more than one person).


distomedially

distomedially (comparative more distomedially, superlative most distomedially)

more distomedially (comparative)
most distomedially (superlative)


cryingly

cryingly (comparative more cryingly, superlative most cryingly)

more cryingly (comparative)
most cryingly (superlative)

[…] a state of things cryingly calling for immediate and sweeping reforms […]

1858, The anti-slavery reporter, page 113:

(figuratively) In a way that desperately demands attention.


psychotherapeutically

Prigatano (1999) highlights the importance of these issues for clinicians working psychotherapeutically with brain-injured persons.

2006, R Coetzer, Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation: A psychotherapeutic approach to loss and grief:

By means of, or with regard to psychotherapy.

psicoterapeuticamente

by means of, or with regard to psychotherapy


therewhilst

there is nothing may so justly distaste a subject from putting himselfe in paine and danger for the service of his Prince then therewhilst to see him given to lazinesse, to base and vaine occupations, and to have care of his conservation, seeing him so carelesse of ours.


endward

endward (comparative more endward, superlative most endward)

more endward (comparative)
most endward (superlative)


leaningly

leaningly (comparative more leaningly, superlative most leaningly)

more leaningly (comparative)
most leaningly (superlative)

Form a stratum of peats upon all the ground, setting them leaningly on end with an inclination toward the stake or centre[…]

1851, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia, volume 3, page 785:


somaesthetically

In terms of, or with regard to, somaesthetics.


ethnoscientifically

ethnoscientifically (comparative more ethnoscientifically, superlative most ethnoscientifically)

more ethnoscientifically (comparative)
most ethnoscientifically (superlative)

In an ethnoscientific manner or context.


idlingly

idlingly (comparative more idlingly, superlative most idlingly)

more idlingly (comparative)
most idlingly (superlative)


judgingly

judgingly (comparative more judgingly, superlative most judgingly)

more judgingly (comparative)
most judgingly (superlative)


ethologically

ethologically (comparative more ethologically, superlative most ethologically)

more ethologically (comparative)
most ethologically (superlative)


hidingly

hidingly (comparative more hidingly, superlative most hidingly)

more hidingly (comparative)
most hidingly (superlative)

But the very fact that you are doing it hidingly means it is not all right.

2012, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Where There Is Love, There Is God:

In a hiding, clandestine, or secretive manner.


hidelings

An' she's to come to you here, hidlings, as it war?

1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 1, page 12:

In a clandestine manner; secretly; stealthily; furtively; in secret.


hidel-like

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

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

From Middle English hidel-like, equivalent to hidel + -like.


statarianly

statarianly (comparative more statarianly, superlative most statarianly)

more statarianly (comparative)
most statarianly (superlative)

Your skirmishing parties, call them cohorts or cow-hearts, shall never drive my statarianly disciplined battallion from its ground.

1768, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:


submittingly

submittingly (comparative more submittingly, superlative most submittingly)

more submittingly (comparative)
most submittingly (superlative)

So as to submit; in a submissive manner.


netherward

netherward (comparative more netherward, superlative most netherward)

more netherward (comparative)
most netherward (superlative)

From Middle English nitherward, from Old English niþerweard (“downward, directed downwards, turned downwards”), equivalent to nether + -ward. Cognate with Dutch neerwaarts (“netherward”), German niederwärts (“netherward”).


quinquennially

The clergy's affairs, for example, were regulated by an Assembly of the Clergy, meeting quinquennially to deal with matters of common concern.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 9:


orpedly

en-adv

orpedly (comparative more orpedly, superlative most orpedly)

more orpedly (comparative)
most orpedly (superlative)

From Middle English orpedliche, orpedly, from Old English orpedlīċe (“boldly, clearly, definitely”), equivalent to orped + -ly.


nither

en-adv

nither (comparative more nither, superlative most nither)

more nither (comparative)
most nither (superlative)


tearjerkingly

tearjerkingly (comparative more tearjerkingly, superlative most tearjerkingly)

more tearjerkingly (comparative)
most tearjerkingly (superlative)


hydrographically

By means of, or in terms of, hydrography.


impermissively

impermissively (comparative more impermissively, superlative most impermissively)

more impermissively (comparative)
most impermissively (superlative)


soonly

soonly (comparative more soonly, superlative most soonly)

more soonly (comparative)
most soonly (superlative)

From soon + -ly. Since the late 15th century.

I will entreat you, to do what's possible to finish this everlasting separation, which will kill me soonly, if not ceasing.

2007, Willem Bilderdijk, Jan Bosch, M. van Hattum, Mr. W. Bilderdijk's briefwisseling, 1798-1806, page 155:

Dakota will soonly become one of them blissful married States.

1909, Wallace Irwin, “Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy”, in Collier's, volume 42, numbers 15-26, page xxiv:


for realsies

Hostage: I love you. Do you love me?
Gunman: For realsies, babe.

2009, Holt Bailey, Brian Steele, Hostage: A Love Story, 00:01:44-00:01:49:


99 percent

Roy: I'm 95% sure it was him.
Jen: You... you said you were 99% sure.
Roy: I'm 97% sure it was him.

2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1

I'm 99 percent certain.


uncommendably

uncommendably (comparative more uncommendably, superlative most uncommendably)

more uncommendably (comparative)
most uncommendably (superlative)


dogly

dogly (comparative more dogly, superlative most dogly)

more dogly (comparative)
most dogly (superlative)

From Middle English *dogly, *doglich, equivalent dog + -ly. Compare doglike.


sensualistically

sensualistically (comparative more sensualistically, superlative most sensualistically)

more sensualistically (comparative)
most sensualistically (superlative)


ad verecundiam

ad verecundiam (comparative more ad verecundiam, superlative most ad verecundiam)

more ad verecundiam (comparative)
most ad verecundiam (superlative)

Shortened from the Latin expression argumentum ad verecundiam. From argumentum (meaning "argument") + ad (meaning "to" or "at") + verecundiam, the accusative singular of verecundia (meaning "coyness", "modesty" or "shame").

He tried to make his case by arguing ad verecundiam.


pertinately

pertinately (comparative more pertinately, superlative most pertinately)

more pertinately (comparative)
most pertinately (superlative)


undistractedly

undistractedly (comparative more undistractedly, superlative most undistractedly)

more undistractedly (comparative)
most undistractedly (superlative)


favouredly

favouredly (comparative more favouredly, superlative most favouredly)

more favouredly (comparative)
most favouredly (superlative)

For of fence , almost in every town , there is not only masters to teach it , with his provosters , ushers , scholars , and other names of art and school ; but there hath not failed also , which hath diligently and favouredly written it

(obsolete) In a favoured or favourable manner; favourably.


uncooperatively

uncooperatively (comparative more uncooperatively, superlative most uncooperatively)

more uncooperatively (comparative)
most uncooperatively (superlative)


undistractible

undistractible (comparative more undistractible, superlative most undistractible)

more undistractible (comparative)
most undistractible (superlative)


unimportantly

unimportantly (comparative more unimportantly, superlative most unimportantly)

more unimportantly (comparative)
most unimportantly (superlative)

In a way that is not important; insignificantly.


unpractically

unpractically (comparative more unpractically, superlative most unpractically)

more unpractically (comparative)
most unpractically (superlative)


unresolvedly

unresolvedly (comparative more unresolvedly, superlative most unresolvedly)

more unresolvedly (comparative)
most unresolvedly (superlative)

Without resolution; in an unresolved manner.


genocidally

genocidally (comparative more genocidally, superlative most genocidally)

more genocidally (comparative)
most genocidally (superlative)

[…] the Muslim Turks who genocidally slaughtered the Christian Armenians; the Bosnian Christian Serbs who genocidally slaughtered Albanian and Croatian Muslims […]

2006, Martin Tolchin, Susan J. Tolchin, A world ignited:

a genocidally inclined country


in petto

Borrowed from Italian in petto (“in the chest”).

And yet, thou brave Teufelsdröckh, who could tell what lurked in thee? […] The secrets of man’s Life were laid open to thee; thou sawest into the mystery of the Universe, farther than another; thou hadst in petto thy remarkable Volume on Clothes.

1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Reminiscences”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 10:

Ministers and their Majority had a rejoinder in petto, as we have explained above; but it was one which they could not for shame avow, though they voted on the strength of it.

1834 June 7, “News of the Week”, in The Spectator, number 310:

In the same department as the suspect allographic prefaces we will naturally put many a “Notice from the Publisher [or Editor],” […] which we will meet again and which we have every reason to attribute in petto (but only in petto) to the author.

1997, Gérard Genette, Paratext: Thresholds of Interpretation, →ISBN, page 190:


ceramically

ceramically bonded silicon carbide


subjacently

subjacently (comparative more subjacently, superlative most subjacently)

more subjacently (comparative)
most subjacently (superlative)


head-spinningly

head-spinningly (comparative more head-spinningly, superlative most head-spinningly)

more head-spinningly (comparative)
most head-spinningly (superlative)

“Marge Gets A Job” is just about perfect. There is not a wasted sequence or unfunny gag. It’s head-spinningly smart in a way that doesn’t call attention to itself—like setting the retirement party at The Spruce Caboose, a giant, unwieldy, trainwreck-themed eatery whose name and conceit are brilliant parodies of Howard Hughes’ giant wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose.

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Things get headspinningly trippy when she makes it to the moon, where the goddess Chang’e turns out to be real and spends her time belting out disco-pop bangers in the style of Katy Perry to a stadium audience of glowing, bubblegum-coloured blobs.

2020 October 15, Cath Clarke, “Over the Moon review – Netflix family animation is more Disney than Disney”, in The Guardian:


trivalently

a trivalently cross-linked structure

in a trivalent manner; with a valence of three


abiologically

From abiological + -ly or abiologic + -ally or a- + biologically.

a natural mechanism for abiologically producing some of the needed structural components of life

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attemperly

attemperly (comparative more attemperly, superlative most attemperly)

more attemperly (comparative)
most attemperly (superlative)


suppositionally

suppositionally (comparative more suppositionally, superlative most suppositionally)

more suppositionally (comparative)
most suppositionally (superlative)

In a suppositional manner; by means of, or in the context of, supposition.


something like

And it’s daunting because each segment has to tell a full, complete story in something like six minutes while doing justice to revered source material and including the non-stop laughs and genius gags that characterized The Simpsons in its god-like prime.

2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):


lumberingly

lumberingly (comparative more lumberingly, superlative most lumberingly)

more lumberingly (comparative)
most lumberingly (superlative)


invitationally

invitationally (comparative more invitationally, superlative most invitationally)

more invitationally (comparative)
most invitationally (superlative)


perseverantly

perseverantly (comparative more perseverantly, superlative most perseverantly)

more perseverantly (comparative)
most perseverantly (superlative)

From Middle English perseverantly; equivalent to perserverant + -ly.


resumptively

(linguistics) In a resumptive manner; in terms of, or by means of, resumption.


rivalrously

rivalrously (comparative more rivalrously, superlative most rivalrously)

more rivalrously (comparative)
most rivalrously (superlative)

/ˈɹʌɪvəlɹəsli/

The advent of Calonne as Controller-General and Breteuil as Minister for the Royal Household in November 1783 meant that the ministry now contained (with Vergennes) three rivalrously ambitious ministers with conflicting philosophies and power bases.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 341:


newsworthily

newsworthily (comparative more newsworthily, superlative most newsworthily)

more newsworthily (comparative)
most newsworthily (superlative)


subvertingly

subvertingly (comparative more subvertingly, superlative most subvertingly)

more subvertingly (comparative)
most subvertingly (superlative)

So as to subvert; in a subversive manner.


testerically

testerically (comparative more testerically, superlative most testerically)

more testerically (comparative)
most testerically (superlative)


plummily

plummily (comparative more plummily, superlative most plummily)

more plummily (comparative)
most plummily (superlative)

He laughed again, plummily. "Sounds as though he'd committed the murder himself."

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582:

Her voice rose plummily into the darkened room[…]

2004, Michael Byers, Long for This World, page 162:


compactedly

compactedly (comparative more compactedly, superlative most compactedly)

more compactedly (comparative)
most compactedly (superlative)


a capriccio

From Italian capriccio (“sudden start or motion”).

bor

(music) At whatever tempo and with whatever expression the conductor or performer desires.


quicklier

The terrified sailors would have begun to depart quicklier than they did, had not fear itself made them move slowly.

1834, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator, and the Companion, page 6:

The apprentice will learn much better and quicklier how to do things for knowing beforehand why he is bidden to do them in any particular way[…]

1871, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 24, page 332:

(rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.


salutiferously

en-adv

salutiferously (comparative more salutiferously, superlative most salutiferously)

more salutiferously (comparative)
most salutiferously (superlative)

(archaic, rare) In a salutiferous or healthy manner.


whethersoever

From Middle English queþer-so-ever, weder-so-ever, wheder so ever, wheder-so-ever. By surface analysis, whether + so + ever.

surf

(rare, obsolete) In or to whatever place; anywhere; whithersoever.

(rare, obsolete) In all places; everywhere.


rearly

en-adv

rearly (comparative more rearly, superlative most rearly)

more rearly (comparative)
most rearly (superlative)

Broth: I'll bring it to-morrow. / Daugh: Do, very rearly; I must be abroad else, / To call the maids, and pay the minstrels

1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


pubwards

Lin went home to relieve the child-minder, cook for the brats and swap e-mails with her would-be admirers, and I headed pubwards with the other two.


unadvisably

unadvisably (comparative more unadvisably, superlative most unadvisably)

more unadvisably (comparative)
most unadvisably (superlative)


inadvisably

inadvisably (comparative more inadvisably, superlative most inadvisably)

more inadvisably (comparative)
most inadvisably (superlative)

In an inadvisable or ill-advised manner; against better advice; rashly.


certeinely

certeinely (comparative more certeinely, superlative most certeinely)

more certeinely (comparative)
most certeinely (superlative)


sternforemost

(nautical, archaic) astern, to the rear.

A fatal genius for going sternforemost.

1870, James Russell Lowell, Among my Books:

(figurative, archaic) In an awkward, blundering manner.


on someone's account

On the majority's account, a Fourth Amendment "seizure" takes place whenever an officer "merely touches" a suspect.

2021, Torres v. Madrid (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19-292), Justice Gorsuch dissenting

According to someone's interpretation or account.


swythe

swythe (comparative more swythe, superlative most swythe)

more swythe (comparative)
most swythe (superlative)


sustainingly

sustainingly (comparative more sustainingly, superlative most sustainingly)

more sustainingly (comparative)
most sustainingly (superlative)


tithly

tithly (comparative more tithly, superlative most tithly)

more tithly (comparative)
most tithly (superlative)

I have seen him trip it tithly.

1619, John Fletcher, “The Humorous Lieutenant”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iv:


prosingly

prosingly (comparative more prosingly, superlative most prosingly)

more prosingly (comparative)
most prosingly (superlative)


submissly

submissly (comparative more submissly, superlative most submissly)

more submissly (comparative)
most submissly (superlative)

Humility consists not in railing against thyself , or wearing mean clothes , or going softly and submissly , but in hearty and real evil or mean opinion of thyself

1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

(archaic) In a submissive manner; with submission.


frowardly

frowardly (comparative more frowardly, superlative most frowardly)

more frowardly (comparative)
most frowardly (superlative)

From Middle English frowardly; equivalent to froward + -ly.

They refuse still to return, Ephraim-like, going on frowardly in the way of their own heart.

1850, The Reformed Presbytery, Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive:

The queen of England, however, frowardly bent on opposing the match to the utmost, directed sir Nicholas Throgmorton, her ambassador, to set before the eyes of Mary a long array of objections and impediments; and he was further authorized secretly to promise support to such of the Scottish nobles as would undertake to oppose it.

1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth:

Up, and with Sir W. Batten to the Committee of Lords at the Council Chamber, where Sir G. Carteret told us what he had said to the King, and how the King inclines to our request of making us Commissioners of the Prize office, but meeting him anon in the gallery, he tells me that my Lord Barkely is angry we should not acquaint him with it, so I found out my Lord and pacified him, but I know not whether he was so in earnest or no, for he looked very frowardly.

1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, October/November 1664:


indistinctively

indistinctively (comparative more indistinctively, superlative most indistinctively)

more indistinctively (comparative)
most indistinctively (superlative)

They had not reached the point of differentiating divorces, but classed them indistinctively as disgraceful incidents, in which the woman was always to blame, but the man, though her innocent victim, was yet inevitably contaminated.

1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country:

It was as an unconscious and deep trance, through which something like a dream only faintly and indistinctively stirs.


headward

As the isthmus disappeared at the close of the 17th century, the river continued to erode the island headward and build it up at its downstream end, so that the western and southern shores where the first settlement had been built, were partly destroyed.

1957, John L. Cotter, New Discoveries at Jamestown:


frontwise

frontwise (comparative more frontwise, superlative most frontwise)

more frontwise (comparative)
most frontwise (superlative)

Toward the front; in the direction of the front; frontward.


silviculturally

In terms of, or by means of, silviculture.


snivellingly

snivellingly (comparative more snivellingly, superlative most snivellingly)

more snivellingly (comparative)
most snivellingly (superlative)


snivelingly

snivelingly (comparative more snivelingly, superlative most snivelingly)

more snivelingly (comparative)
most snivelingly (superlative)

The child snivelingly crept back to its toys.

In a pitiful, cringeing or pathetic manner.


wofully

wofully (comparative more wofully, superlative most wofully)

more wofully (comparative)
most wofully (superlative)

"Are you not assuming," asked Mr. Welson, "the privilege and understanding of a judge without knowledge sufficient for the condemnatory sentence you have pronounced as a penalty against this savage?"
"By their works ye shall know them," replied the padre, looking wofully at his arm.

1877, R. Elton Smile [Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter III, in The Manatitlans; or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derecho, Imprenta De Razon, page 26:


fromward

fromward (comparative more fromward, superlative most fromward)

more fromward (comparative)
most fromward (superlative)

From Middle English fromward, framward, from Old English framweard (“about to depart, departing, doomed to die; with his back turned”, adjective) and framweardes (“away from”, adverb), equivalent to from + -ward. Compare froward.

inh

(now dialect, Southern England, Midlands, West Country) Forth; forward.


ruddily

en-adv

ruddily (comparative more ruddily, superlative most ruddily)

more ruddily (comparative)
most ruddily (superlative)

Many a hand's on a richer hilt, / But none on a steel more ruddily gilt; [...]

1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “The Siege of Corinth”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 43, lines 782–783:

I notice that each of the myriad towel carts on the Dreamward’s Deck 12 is manned by its very own Towel Guy, and that their Towel Guys are ruddily Nordic and nonspectral and have nothing resembling withering neutrality or boredom about their mien.

1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:


defeatedly

defeatedly (comparative more defeatedly, superlative most defeatedly)

more defeatedly (comparative)
most defeatedly (superlative)

With an appearance or attitude of defeat.


mycologically

the management of mycologically valuable sites

a mycologically infected patient


antisemitically

antisemitically (comparative more antisemitically, superlative most antisemitically)

more antisemitically (comparative)
most antisemitically (superlative)


birationally

Two varieties are said to be birationally equivalent if there exists a birational map between them.


eulogistically

eulogistically (comparative more eulogistically, superlative most eulogistically)

more eulogistically (comparative)
most eulogistically (superlative)

In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.


homeostatically

By means of, or in terms of, homeostasis.


unkeenly

unkeenly (comparative more unkeenly, superlative most unkeenly)

more unkeenly (comparative)
most unkeenly (superlative)


menopausally

An older woman in our culture runs a high risk of being a poor woman and of being perceived as a menopausally damaged woman.

1993, Joan C. Callahan, Menopause: A Midlife Passage, page 60:

Given the cluster of syndromes that occur menopausally, effects of new SERMs on cognition and affect becomes increasingly urgent.

1996, James A. Bristol, Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry: Volume 31, page 15:

In terms of, or by means of, the menopause.


antiphrastically

antiphrastically (comparative more antiphrastically, superlative most antiphrastically)

more antiphrastically (comparative)
most antiphrastically (superlative)

(rhetoric) By means of, or in terms of, antiphrasis.

antifrasticamente

by means of, or in terms of, antiphrasis


metathetically

metathetically (comparative more metathetically, superlative most metathetically)

more metathetically (comparative)
most metathetically (superlative)

'Che Normah pronounced the name in the Malay manner, metathetically: Ruperet, the final dental initiated but not exploded.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:

By means of, or in terms of, metathesis.


adoors

From the obsolete preposition a and doors.

He seem'd to find his way without his eyes,
 for out adoors he went without their help.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

But one of the flock-dogs took his time while they were busie, and ran out adoors with a shoulder of mutton.

1657, Longus, “Daphnis and Chloe”, in George Thornley, transl., Book 3:

(obsolete) At the door, or through the door.


inframe

For the chimeric 35S::ARR1 DDK::GR gene, 35S::ARR1 DDK was ligated inframe to a cassette directing the hormone-binding domain of the rat GR (19).

2001 November 16, Hiroe Sakai et al., “ARR1, a Transcription Factor for Genes Immediately Responsive to Cytokinins”, in Science, volume 294, number 5546, →DOI, pages 1519–1521:


mesiodistally

The maxillary central incisor crown is relatively broad mesiodistally in proportion to its height (Fig. 2 ).

1999 August 27, Steve Ward et al., “Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya”, in Science, volume 285, number 5432, →DOI, pages 1382–1386:

relating to the mesiodistal side of a tooth


vehicularly

"Are you aware that a loaded, vehicularly concealed weapon constitutes a misdemeanor offense in this state?"

2005, Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish, Viking, →ISBN:


yestersol

From yester- + sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with yesterday.

But yestersol he took Mother into the old middle-pressure greenhouse (the little one they built when they first arrived here) and got her involved in a long discussion.

2001, Mary Turzillo, “Mars is No Place for Children”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Nebula Awards Showcase 2001: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 61:

On the sol (Martian day) before the present one.


loungingly

loungingly (comparative more loungingly, superlative most loungingly)

more loungingly (comparative)
most loungingly (superlative)

So as to lounge; in a lazy or relaxing way.


streamingly

streamingly (comparative more streamingly, superlative most streamingly)

more streamingly (comparative)
most streamingly (superlative)

Her long hair moved streamingly in the wind.


bluffingly

bluffingly (comparative more bluffingly, superlative most bluffingly)

more bluffingly (comparative)
most bluffingly (superlative)


fidgetingly

fidgetingly (comparative more fidgetingly, superlative most fidgetingly)

more fidgetingly (comparative)
most fidgetingly (superlative)

With fidgeting motions; with impatient inability to keep still.


urgingly

urgingly (comparative more urgingly, superlative most urgingly)

more urgingly (comparative)
most urgingly (superlative)

I say it beseechingly, urgingly - Always obey your parents.

1882, Mark Twain, Advice to Youth (speech)


hectoringly

hectoringly (comparative more hectoringly, superlative most hectoringly)

more hectoringly (comparative)
most hectoringly (superlative)


peltingly

peltingly (comparative more peltingly, superlative most peltingly)

more peltingly (comparative)
most peltingly (superlative)

The rain fell peltingly for days.


waggingly

waggingly (comparative more waggingly, superlative most waggingly)

more waggingly (comparative)
most waggingly (superlative)


trailingly

trailingly (comparative more trailingly, superlative most trailingly)

more trailingly (comparative)
most trailingly (superlative)

The woman's long dress went trailingly through the mud.


scrawlingly

scrawlingly (comparative more scrawlingly, superlative most scrawlingly)

more scrawlingly (comparative)
most scrawlingly (superlative)

scrawlingly joined words


dissemblingly

dissemblingly (comparative more dissemblingly, superlative most dissemblingly)

more dissemblingly (comparative)
most dissemblingly (superlative)

So as to dissemble or deceive; with dissimulation.


resistingly

resistingly (comparative more resistingly, superlative most resistingly)

more resistingly (comparative)
most resistingly (superlative)

So as to resist; with resistance; without accepting or yielding.


conformingly

conformingly (comparative more conformingly, superlative most conformingly)

more conformingly (comparative)
most conformingly (superlative)


gossipingly

gossipingly (comparative more gossipingly, superlative most gossipingly)

more gossipingly (comparative)
most gossipingly (superlative)


oppressingly

oppressingly (comparative more oppressingly, superlative most oppressingly)

more oppressingly (comparative)
most oppressingly (superlative)

So as to oppress; with or by means of oppression; oppressively.


unbudgingly

unbudgingly (comparative more unbudgingly, superlative most unbudgingly)

more unbudgingly (comparative)
most unbudgingly (superlative)

Without budging or moving; in a way that is steadfast.


unaspiringly

unaspiringly (comparative more unaspiringly, superlative most unaspiringly)

more unaspiringly (comparative)
most unaspiringly (superlative)


snubbingly

snubbingly (comparative more snubbingly, superlative most snubbingly)

more snubbingly (comparative)
most snubbingly (superlative)


perspiringly

perspiringly (comparative more perspiringly, superlative most perspiringly)

more perspiringly (comparative)
most perspiringly (superlative)

While perspiring; with perspiration or sweat.


commiseratingly

commiseratingly (comparative more commiseratingly, superlative most commiseratingly)

more commiseratingly (comparative)
most commiseratingly (superlative)

So as to commiserate; in a way that offers commiseration.


seducingly

seducingly (comparative more seducingly, superlative most seducingly)

more seducingly (comparative)
most seducingly (superlative)


thinkingly

thinkingly (comparative more thinkingly, superlative most thinkingly)

more thinkingly (comparative)
most thinkingly (superlative)


freezingly

freezingly (comparative more freezingly, superlative most freezingly)

more freezingly (comparative)
most freezingly (superlative)

In a way that is freezing; with intense cold.

It was on the tip of her tongue to call her a poll parrot (Mrs. Kingdom had said nothing but 'dear me' repeatedly and freezingly).

1902, Country Life, volume 11, page 636:

(figurative) With intense emotional coldness; dispassionately.


evadingly

evadingly (comparative more evadingly, superlative most evadingly)

more evadingly (comparative)
most evadingly (superlative)


over-insolently

over-insolently (comparative more over-insolently, superlative most over-insolently)

more over-insolently (comparative)
most over-insolently (superlative)

Charilus the Lacedemonian, to one Helot who behaved himself over insolently and audaciously towards him: By the Gods (saith he) If I were not now angry, I would presently make thee die.

In an excessively insolent way; too rudely.


preachingly

preachingly (comparative more preachingly, superlative most preachingly)

more preachingly (comparative)
most preachingly (superlative)

[…] the country maiden, who mounts her horse so adroitly, waits on table so sweetly, and talks morality so preachingly?


sniffingly

sniffingly (comparative more sniffingly, superlative most sniffingly)

more sniffingly (comparative)
most sniffingly (superlative)

All during the night the riding ponies had grazed in close proximity to the house, had stamped about it, and occasionally had put their noses to its cracks, sniffingly to satisfy either curiosity or a desire for human companionship.

1997, Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy, page 191:

Philip Hone sniffingly noted in his diary that "they increase our taxes, eat our bread and encumber our streets, and not one in twenty is competent to keep himself."

2004, Edward Robb Ellis, The Epic Of New York City: A Narrative History, page 232:

Mrs. Chow down the street, for instance, why did she look so sniffingly upon him when she heard the children, in the harmless uproar of their play, cry him aloud as Daddy?

2007, Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins, page 27:


leadingly

leadingly (comparative more leadingly, superlative most leadingly)

more leadingly (comparative)
most leadingly (superlative)

"She has to be thin, correct?" Vijay's father continued, asking the question leadingly.

2002, Ajay A. Patel, Arranged Love, page 70:

The only snag in the proceedings occurred when the prosecution cross-examined Allison: the defense objected vigorously when the state leadingly asked if it was true that Milam had "been charged and pleaded guilty on quite a number of charges."

2008, Davis W. Houck, Matthew A. Grindy, Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press, page 102:

In a way that leads; as a leading question.


connivingly

connivingly (comparative more connivingly, superlative most connivingly)

more connivingly (comparative)
most connivingly (superlative)


dissentingly

dissentingly (comparative more dissentingly, superlative most dissentingly)

more dissentingly (comparative)
most dissentingly (superlative)


overfondly

overfondly (comparative more overfondly, superlative most overfondly)

more overfondly (comparative)
most overfondly (superlative)


plottingly

plottingly (comparative more plottingly, superlative most plottingly)

more plottingly (comparative)
most plottingly (superlative)

In a plotting manner; engaging in plots or schemes.