gluttonishly

gluttonishly (comparative more gluttonishly, superlative most gluttonishly)

more gluttonishly (comparative)
most gluttonishly (superlative)

They were gluttonishly studying the menu, which was long and varied.

1911, Priscilla Craven [pseudonym; Florence Teignmouth Shore], “Hands Off, America!”, in The Rose with a Thorn, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 46:

Now Zola too was becoming one of the Fat; life ran smoothly by. He feasted gluttonishly on good things, on rare dishes.

1928, Matthew Josephson, “The ‘Four Authors’”, in Zola and His Time: […], New York, N.Y.: The Macaulay Company, page 187:

The Tablet, the glory of English Romanism, did not gulp the miracle any more gluttonishly than its Anglican contemporary but stated that, while miracles were, and had always been, possible, it would be as well to await the expression of competent hierarchical opinion; […]

1931, Bruce Marshall, chapter X, in Father Malachy’s Miracle: A Heavenly Story with an Earthly Meaning, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, Inc., […], published 1947, pages 167–168:


leisurelier

As the whole art of reading depend^([sic]) on the proper management of the breath, use it with economy. Relieve thine^([sic]) voices at every stops,^([sic]) slightly at a commas,^([sic]) leisurelier at a semicolon, or colon, and completely at a periods.^([sic])

1795, “[Exercises.] Directions for Reading.”, in Rudiments of Constructive Etymology and Syntax, London: […] T[homas] Knott, […] G[eorge] Nicholson, […], Manchester, section IV, page 138:

“If that is the reward for walking slowly, then shall we take a turn even leisurelier?”

2014, Red L. Jameson [pseudonym; Lanita Beth Joramo], Enemy of Mine (The Glimpse Time Travel), →ISBN, page 44:

LOS B is an adequate region to freely select rapidity with some struggle in passing leisurelier moving walkers.

2016, Mohd Khairul Afzan Mohd Lazi, Masria Mustafa, Zanariah Abd Rahman, Nur’Aadila Binti kaman, “Assessing Pedestrian Behavior and Walking Speed on Staircase: A Review”, in Marina Yusoff, Nor Hayati Abdul Hamid, Mohd Fadzil Arshad, Ahmad Kamil Arshad, Ahmad Ruslan Mohd Ridzuan, Haryati Awang, editors, InCIEC 2015: Proceedings of the International Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Conference, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, part IX ([…]), article section 2 ([…]), subsection 3 ([…]), page 1022:

When comparing our algorithms to the basic algorithm, it’s crystal clear that in our modified protocols, remaining energy diminishes leisurelier than basic one.

2019, Hajar Lagraini, Hicham Ouldzira, Mostafa Chhiba, Abdelmoumen Tabyaoui, Ahmed Mouhsen, “An Energy Balanced Algorithm for data communication in WSN”, in Jamal Zbitou, Adil Echchelh, Mostafa Hefnawi, Ahmed Errkik, editors, ICCWCS 2019: Third International Conference on Computing and Wireless Communication Systems, European Alliance for Innovation, →ISBN, page 351:

Moreover, the nodes in the proposed method did leisurelier than the hetDEEC-4, EDDEEC-4, and DDEEC-4 because it chooses the head nodes proficiently which helps in extending the network lifespan.

2020, Samayveer Singh, “A Threshold-Based Optimization Energy-Efficient Routing Technique in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks”, in Krishna Kant Singh, Akansha Singh, Korhan Cengiz, Dac-Nhuong Le, editors, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing for Mobile Communications and Wireless Networks, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →DOI, →ISBN, page 218:

An air tightly shields them which makes them float leisurelier, nevertheless comfortable.

2022, Oliver Carey, “Journey’s End”, in This Is It, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:

(rare) comparative form of leisurely: more leisurely


happiliest

The houre and place were appointed, which was to be the fatall moment and Capitoll to the Triumph of that Beauty which should hap∣piliest incounter the Genius of those Pa∣ris'es, who being to be Judges, the older they were, would be the less passionate in fa∣vourably deciding the question wheron the possession not of an Aple, but of a Crown did depend.

1653 [i.e., 1652], Francesco Carmeni, anonymous translator, Nissena, an Excellent New Romance: Written Originally in Italian by Francesco Carmeni; and Now Englished by an Honorable Anti-Socordist, London: […] Humphrey Moseley […], pages 5–6; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

Now, to know the particular persons concerned therein, and on whom their▪ Effects shall fall, the Happiliest or Heaviest, it were requisite that I first knew and perused their respective Genitures; […]

1655, George Wharton, Apotelesma: or, The Nativity of the World, and the Revolution Thereof, with Astrologicall Judgements Thereupon, London: […] Tho[mas] Vere […], and Nath[aniel] Brook […], page 29; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

Now, not to trouble you with a literal translation (for I hold the words not worth it) he tells us, That he would not have a Prince addicted to too much De∣votion; nor to affect to be a little Saint: he sayes his prayers best (quoth he) that does his businesse happiliest, &c.

1659, H[enry] D[awbeny], Historie & Policie Re-viewed, in the Heroick Transactions of His Most Serene Highnesse, Oliver, Late Lord Protector; From His Cradle, to His Tomb: […], London: […] Nathaniel Brook, […], page 172; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

I paſs’d my Youth the happilieſt in the World, the Duke of Saxony my Father, dying in my Infancy, and leaving the Emperor Otho, [?] Brother, Guardian of his three Children, with power of diſpoſing of the Dutchy of Saxony, to which he ſhould judge moſt worthy, I had the good fortune, at the finiſhing my Exerciſes, to be very agreeable to the Emperor; and at the ſame time, to ſee my ſelf (If I may without vanity ſay it) the Love of all the Ladies of his Court.

1675, Beraldus, Prince of Savoy, a Novel. In Two Parts. Translated out of French by a Person of Quality., London: […] W. Grantham […], and J. Crump […], pages 10–11:

Where on the other ſide, carrying him with that Moderation that becomes a Prince of his Perfection and Education, and is neceſſary in this remedileſs Accident, he ſhall both in the mean while, happilieſt provide for his own Security, and for the Time to come through his kind of good Uſage of her Majeſty, who hath deſerved ſo greatly at his Hands, win unto himſelf the Hearts, Good-will and Affection of the whole Body of the Realm.

1728, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, in the Church of England. […], volume III, London: […] Edward Symon, […], page 379:

The thing is, a woman's sexual power does exist, and every guy knows this. Even if he is the happiliest attached man on the planet who would never cheat on his partner, when a sexy woman enters the room for damn sure he notices her.

2004 February 15, Cory C. Albrecht, “Why Janet Jackass's tit on tv was a bad thing”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-31:

What I'd like to say to you and only you, is you really ought to get a life, pretty sad that you track my posts and even create a thread in my name. *IF* I weren't already the happiliest married woman on the planet I *MIGHT* be flattered.... no I've thought about it, I wouldn't be flattered even if I *WEREN'T* the happiliest married woman on the planet.

2005 November 5, Mimi Cohen, “Disabled woman set on fire as Paris riots spread”, in alt.california (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-31:

The planet's "happiliest" married man, Ashton Kutcher, was once a champion carouser until he met his wife five years ago and became a changed man. […] "I knew she was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with," he said. "I am the happiliest -- I think I just invented that word -- married guy on the planet."

2008 May 9, Gina Keating, “Ashton Kutcher is world's "happiliest" married man”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-12-31:

(rare) superlative form of happily: most happily


wildlier

How is the Earth about her Axis turn’d? The Sun or it in Motion moſt concern’d? How is it faſten’d, if it does not move? How, if it does? And why not wildlier rove?

1714, Samuel Jones, Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions, London: […] A[rthur] Bettesworth […], and E[dmund] Curll […], page 9:

Even if at times a recollection of Sir Paris and Helen would make the wishes of his heart flame up more boldly and wildlier, yet he needed only a glance at the scarf and sword, and the stream of his inner life forthwith glided along, clear as a mirror, and cheerful.

1820, Frederic, Baron de la Motte Fouqué, translated by [Julius Hare], chapter 11, in Sintram and His Companions: A Romance. […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 101:

At dead of night — a winter night — / Death bestrode the blast, / And conscious Arno’s high-swoln river / Swelled wildlier as he past; / On black and heavy vans he took his flight.

1822 February 11, John Taaffe, “Elegy on the Death of His Royal Highness Prince Clement, Duke of Saxony, etc. etc.”, in Theodor Hell [pseudonym; Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler], [Johann] Friedrich Kind, editors, Abend-Zeitung auf das Jahr 1822 [Evening Newspaper for the Year 1822], number 36, Dresden: […] Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, stanza I, page 141, column 1:

Yet oh, though no more thine eye glances / An ardent untroubled confession, / It has something that wildlier entrances, / A fonder, a deeper expression.

1829 February, Charles M., “To a Nameless One”, in The Ladies’ Museum […], volume I, London: James Robins and Co. […], page 99:

Spring soon will come / And bring their bloom / To bursting flowers;— / Many a silver beam / Crescent moons will stream / On dewy bowers. / Shall they light a sweeter, / Wildlier-happy, scene, / Than where, mute with passion, / On this breast you lean / Bathed with moonlight sheen,— / And I pray, / “Love me, May?”

1847 October, Ellesmere, “May”, in The American Review; a Whig Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Art and Science, volume VI, number IV, New York, N.Y.: George H[ooker] Colton, […]; London: Wiley and Putnam, […], page 405:

The cheering was then renewed, and throats were opened wider than before, and palms met together in harder clap; and hats and Kerchiefs were wildlier flung about, and all things were made more extravagant; […]

1851 February 8, “[Dramatic Intelligence.] Haymarket.—Macready’s Last Performance.”, in The Musical World, volume XXVI, number 6, London: […] Myers and Co., […], page 88, column 1:

The scenery of Earth hath might to dart / Angelic longing thro’ the sluggish vein; / But quicker, wildlier thrills and throbs the heart / Who steers his bark forth on the mighty main / Of mind: O! wanderer, why seek Earth again?

1857 February 16, David Gray, “First Years in Buffalo. 1856–1859.”, in J[osephus] N[elson] Larned, editor, Letters, Poems and Selected Prose Writings of David Gray. […], Buffalo, N.Y.: The Courier Company, […], published 1888, page 43:

And wildlier sighs each evening grey that hastes / From the black brow of still encroaching night; […]

1858, [J. Pallison-Irwin], “The Approach of Winter”, in Sketches of Place and Character, and Other Poems, Glasgow: Walter B. Ogilvie, […], page 84:

Or where poor Virtue, ’neath the ban / Of some mishap, lay bare and bound; / Or where some wildlier, erring one, / The path to purer life had found— / There bent our Good Samaritan, / With oil and wine o’er every wound!

1878, Francis Davis, “Christian Friendship”, in Earlier and Later Leaves: or, An Autumn Gathering, Belfast: Allen & Johnston, →OCLC, page 434:

Till it ſeemed deſpair changed ſhape, and grew delight, / Whenever the proxy-wail of the chafed waves white / Took heart for a ſtronger guſt, and writhed on high / Wildlier, and the whole ſea-chorus infinite / Sated her gluttonous grief with a vaſter cry.

1880, William Hurrell Mallock, “Ariadne”, in Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, […], stanza VII, page 110:

Now, the lone Square is blind with gloom: / Now, on that clustering chestnut bloom, / A cloudy moonlight plays, and falls / In glory upon Bodley’s walls: / Now, wildlier yet, while moonlight pales, / Storm the tumultuary gales.

1890, Lionel Johnson, “Oxford Nights”, in Poems, London: Elkin Mathews; Boston, Mass.: Copeland & Day, published 1895, page 86:

The glimmering twilight slowly deepened, / Wildlier tossed the sea; […]

1916, Heinrich Heine, translated by Howard Mumford Jones, “The Avowal”, in Heine’s Poem, The North Sea, Chicago, Ill., London: The Open Court Publishing Company, page 56:

Second Leader [wildly]. Yes, let us rebel! let us rebel! […] Second Leader [wildlier]. So! It is so!

1918, Cale Young Rice, “The Unborn (A Phantasy)”, in Wraiths and Realities, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 91:

Deborah my darling!—mine no longer / But a missioned angel of the Lord! / For her arm rose wildlier and stronger / Than the wielder of the fiery sword.

1919, William H[enry] Babcock, “[Legends of the New World] The Quakeress”, in Legends of the New World, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, page 46:

[…] the shame, the dismay at being seen by all those people, let loose at the same time a special physical anguish of its own—a finer-footed, wildlier-fluttering sensation that was no longer a moth, but some huge beetle, revolting to the touch, and yet revoltingly delicious.

1936, Aldous Huxley, “March 25th 1928”, in Eyeless in Gaza, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 483–484:

Would wildlier sing dark’s nightingale / Where Hera’s golden apples grow?

1938, Walter de la Mare, “Out of Bounds”, in Memory and Other Poems, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 48:

The following sentences are intended as a review exercise in both adverbs and adjectives, the former chiefly. Rewrite them correctly, explaining what is wrong with them as they stand: […] He drove wildlier than usually, and thereafter we never met again.

1941, John B[aker] Opdycke, “Adverb”, in Harper’s English Grammar, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, part one, pages 257–258:

Had passion voice, why then the strange delight / Ev’n an hour may bring would pæans indite; / And, seeing no words these mercies could requite, / Age pines, in talk, to skirt the infinite; / As birds sing wildlier when it draws towards night.

1951, Walter de la Mare, “Winged Chariot”, in Winged Chariot and Other Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, page 17:

Enright, D[ennis] J[oseph]: […] Singing Wildlier

1963, “[Index] Authors”, in New Statesman, volume 65, London, page v, column 1:

Now how come I've owned Paperclip for over 4000 miles and I've Never had better then^([sic]) 29 and I'm averaging around 26-27 mpg. Is something the matter? For all I know it runs fine.... I drive a little wildlier then^([sic]) tame but still not like a maniac. I mean, I hit the redline in first and second on say, every eighth time I'm in those gears. :)

1999 July 13, pepe, “MPG?”, in rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

when wildly successful cartoonist blows up ignorant teacher, chances are she Wont recognize herself, minor godlingesses of that type are notoriously short on self awareness; but go ahead & do it anyway, the rest of us with scars will know the scenario well enough, applaud loudly & make you even wildlier successful.

2001 October 9, Val Adams, “question for any colorblind animators...”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

And that's only looking at the relatively small minority that uses the roman script. I expect that in the rest of the world there are even many more and wildlier different keyboards in common use.

2007 November 24, Sander Tekelenburg, “Brackets and the Invention of CSS”, in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

(uncommon) comparative form of wildly: more wildly


earnestlier

Of necessitye there∣fore, ought noble men be good. Both, for them selues and others: that they may trayne manye in theyr vertues, not vices. Of which sorte of Nobles, the lesse plenty there hath bene hither to, the earnestlier, ought al men, with theyr whole mighte and power ende∣uour: that these of our dayes encrease the number, and euen drowne theyr auncestours, so to become more fa∣mous, and acceptable to all men.

1563, Lawrence Humfrey, The Nobles or of Nobilitye. The Original Nature, Dutyes, Right, and Christian Institucion Thereof Three Bookes. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

But the souldiers of Conon raised a mutiny against him, be∣cause* the kinges lieuetenaunts before time had ben wont to abridge and defraud them of their wages. Demaunding their duties so much the earnestlier, in that they toke vpon them to serue in so greate warres vnder so noble a chiefe∣taine.

1564 May, Trogus Pompeius [i.e., Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus], Iustine [i.e., Justin], translated by Arthur Goldyng, Thabridgment of the Histories of Trogus Pompeius, Collected and Wrytten in the Laten Tonge, by the Famous Historiographer Iustine, […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, folios 34, verso – 35, recto; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

Third∣lye wée allowe not fasting symplye as a woorke that maketh vs acceptable or pleasing to God of it selfe, but because it serueth vs to thrée good endes, the first to presse down our flesh, abating y• strēgth thereof ᵖ, touching many violent and euil affections ^q: the second, the earnest∣lier to make and dispose our praiers and spiritual thankes geuing to God ʳ.

[1565?], Theodore de Beza, translated by R[obert] F[ills], A Briefe and Piththie Summe of the Christian Faith, Made in Forme of a Confession, vvith a Confutation of All Such Superstitious Errours, as Are Contrary Therevnto, London: […] Richard Serll, […], folio 119, verso; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

The Romanes hauing thus obtained the domination of the seas, persisted in their warres, and earnest∣lier employed their busines, sailing in∣to the coastes of Segestana, deliuering the towne there from besieging, then setting from them, they wonne the ci∣tie Macella.

[1568], Polybius, translated by C[hristopher] W[atson], The Hystories of the Most Famous and Worthy Cronographer Polybius: Discoursing of the Warres betwixt the Romanes & Carthaginenses, […], London: […] Henry Bynneman for Thomas Hacket. […], folio 29, verso; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

Foꝛ like as in Iſraell, the moꝛe that Idolatrie waxed ſtrong, and the whoter that the diſpleaſure of wicked Iezabell burned againſt the true pꝛophets of the Loꝛd, ſo much the earneſtlier did Elias pꝛeache, and ſo muche the ſtoutlyer did he pꝛocure the deſtruction of Baals pꝛéeſtes: […]

1574, Augustine Marlorate [i.e., Augustin Marlorat], “[Revelation 11:3]”, in Arthur Golding, transl., A Catholike Exposition vpon the Reuelation of Sainct Iohn. […], London: […] H[enry] Binneman, for L[ucas] Harison, and G[eorge] Bishop, →OCLC, folio 150, verso:

Also (as I haue tolde you) the question is not whither God per∣fourme his iudgements swiftly: but yet doth hee giue vs some shewe of them euen in this life, too the ende wee should the earnestlier herken for the last day, whereas all things shall bee set agayne in their full state and per∣fection.

1574, Iohn Caluin, translated by Arthur Golding, Sermons of Master Iohn Caluin, vpon the Booke of Iob. […], [London]: […] [Henry Bynneman for] Lucas Harison and George Byshop, page 393; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

And indeede he calleth vs heere / to the consideration off our sinnes: wherby wee haue thus prodigally wasted / and gyuē into the handes of straungers / the liberties which were bowght with so great a price. And wee haue better cawse to thinke the earne∣stlier off them / for somuche as the Answ. lawgheth vs to scorne / and woulde make vs beleue that wee consente to elections when wee are a sleepe / that we chuse those / whom wee refuse: and so o∣ther eatinge the kernels / he maketh vs not a diner / but a feaste with the shels.

1575, Thomas Cartwright, The Second Replie of Thomas Cartwright: agaynst Maister Doctor Whitgiftes Second Answer / Touching the Churche Discipline, [Heidelberg]: [Michael Schirat], pages CCXXVI–CCXXVII; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

But why then (will ye saie) doth God place vs in this life beeyng so full of miseries? Truely for this cause, that our Faith maie be exercised and encreased, and that we should be the gladder and willinger to departe hence: and further that Death might become more sauoueie vnto vs, and bee the ear∣nestlier of vs desired.

1581, Martine Luther, translated by Thomas Newton, A Commentarie or Exposition vppon the Twoo Epistles Generall of Sainct Peter, and That of Sainct Jude. […], London: […] [John Kingston] for Abraham Veale […], folio 114, recto; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

Which affects, being agréeable to reason, are not onelie honest and laudable, but also verie profitable: for they are giuen as certeine spurs to godlie life. For it is not sufficient to knowe those things that are good, but we must be earnestlie stirred vp vnto them. For the affects be as it were si∣newes, by whose stretching foorth, or shrinking in, we are the earnestlier, or the lightlier stirred vp.

1583, Peter Martyr [Vermigli], translated by Anthonie Marten, The Common Places of the Most Famous and Renowmed Diuine Doctor Peter Martyr, Diuided into Foure Principall Parts: with a Large Addition of Manie Theologicall and Necessarie Discourses, Some Neuer Extant Before. […], London: […] [Henry Denham and Henry Middleton] at the costs and charges of Henrie Denham, Thomas Chard, VVilliam Broome, and Andrew Maunsell, page 408; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

As there is nothinge that the Irishe more esteme then the nobilitie of bloud, pferringe it farre before eyther vertue or wealth, so abhorre they nothinge more then disparagemᵗ, more odious unto them then Death; wᶜh well apeared in that late communicac̃on of mariadge betwene the Earle of Glyncarr’s daughter, and supposed heire, and Sir Valentine Browne’s yonger sonne, wᶜh both by the Earle assented unto for money, and for reward by certen of his men negotiated in the countrey very earnestlie, as well for the matter as for the maner of atchyvinge, wrought generally in those parts a bitter discontentment, so much the deepelier printed in their myndes, by how much the earnestlier it was borne them in hande (by those that undertooke to effect it), that it must needes take place, for that it was intended by the state; soe well liked of by Her Majestie, and so resolved upon by the Earle.

1588, Warham St. Leger, “Extracted from the first of three Tracts sent to Burleigh”, in The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archæological Society, volume II, Dublin: […] [T]he University Press. MᶜGlashan & Gill, […], published 1859, page 376:

CONCERNING OBEDIENCE TO THE polliticke lawes ordained by Princes. Their care for the commoditie of the people. The disobedient are to be punished, some lavves are more earnestlier to be cared for then other some.

1590, Edward Ieninges, A Briefe Discouery of the Damages that Happen to This Realme by Disordered and Vnlawfull Diet. The Benefites and Commodities that Otherwaies Might Ensue. With a Perswasion of the People: for a Better Maintenance to the Nauie. […], London: […] Roger Ward, […], page 7; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

My Letter, your Lordſhip speekes of to my Lord Treaſurer, I hope can not give him any juſt Cauſe of Offence: But hetherunto mower Matters heer hath ſeemed ſtil to ſleep, which made me write the earneſtlier, that I might ſomewhat awake him, which, it ſeems, I have by his Saying. that for his own Diſcharge he wil move the Queen about this Town.

1595 November 6, Robert Sydney [i.e., Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester], “Sir Robert Sydney to the Earl of Essex, November 6, 1595”, in William Murdin, A Collection of State Papers Relating to Affairs in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the Year 1571 to 1596. Transcribed from Original Papers and Other Authentic Memorials Never Before Published, […], London: […] William Bowyer, […], published 1759, page 697:

Going vp to the top of the Church, I saw vpon the leads the name of M. Hugo Stapers againe ingranen, which made mee looke the earnestlier for some other Englishmens names: but finding none, I carued downe my name and came away thē went we in and dined with the Friers.

1603, [Henry Timberlake], A True and Strange Discourse of the Trauailes of Two English Pilgrimes: What Admirable Accidents Befell Them in Their Iourney to Ierusalem, Gaza, Grand Cayro, Alexandria, and Other Places: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for Thomas Archer, […], page 16; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

Besides that, albeit those two Matthias and Barsabas were therefore set up in the midst, that the church, in the prayer that was made for their election, might by seeing them pray the earnestlier for them; yet it was also as much to say that, if any could object any thing against them, that he should prefer his objection.

a. 1605, John Whitgift, edited by John Ayre for The Parker Society, The Works of John Whitgift, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Dean of Lincoln, &c. Afterwards Successively Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of Canterbury. The First Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates I-VI., Cambridge, Cambs.: […] The University Press, published 1851, page 297:

For the zeale that we ought to haue to the glory of God, the charity which we ſhould ſhew towards our neighbours, and the good that we wiſh vnto our ſelues, moueth vs euery day to make this prayer vnto God; and ſo much the carefulier and earnestlier, as ſaying it from the mouth of Ieſus Chriſt, that made it: we are aſſured to be heard, and conſequently to ſerue for the aduancement of the kingdome of God, to the good and ſaluation of our brethren, and for our owne benefit.

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

My place of peppering should be in a very warme roome, although the fire were not very great I cared not, my time should be in the eue∣ning, and for my company I cared not how ma∣ny both men and dogs, the more the better, for * then the Hawke seeing so many things, that any one of them might giue offence alone, there is now so much change, men, dogges, fire-light, and candle-light, that she looketh at all, and knoweth not which to be afraid of.

1619, Edmund Bert, An Approued Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Richard Moore, […], pages 11–12; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

Moderate, O Lord, my sicknesse and paines, that I may the freelier haue recourse vn∣to thee; strengthen and confirme my fainting and decaying voyce, that I may the earnestlier cry vnto thee: […]

1619, I. C., The Euer-Burning Lamps of Pietie and Deuotion. Kindled by Many Excellent and Heauenly Prayers, Deuided into the Seuerall Dayes of the Weeke, and Other Occasions: […], London: […] George Purslowe for Richard Hawkins, […], page 179; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

But thou wilt say, My prayers be not heard. Not presently: but it is, that thou mightst pray oftner, and earnestlier, that so God may deliver thee from that thou fearest, and his grace may bee sufficient for thee.

1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian His Disease and Cure. Discovering Lively to the Reader the Spirituall Leprosie of Sinne and Selfe-Love: Together with the Remedies, viz. Selfe-Deniall and Faith. […], London: […] Th: Harper for Philip Nevil, […], pages 585–586; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

[…] ſince therefore a ſmall miſtake encreaſeth as much, and as ſpeedily as a graine of muſtard-ſeed, I muſt the earneſtlier contradict this [Greek text], this firſt error of yours, as being the Parent of ſo many more already, and being likely in time (if by being confuted it be not us’d as Sature us’d his Father) to have yet a more large and numerous Iſſue.

a. 1644, Lucius Cary, [2nd] Lord Viscount of Falkland, “[The Lord of Faulklands Reply.] The Second Part.”, in Sir Lucius Cary, Late Lord Viscount of Falkland, His Discourse of Infallibility, with an Answer to It: And His Lordships Reply. […], London: […] Gartrude Dawson, for Iohn Hardesty, […], published 1651, page 98:

That Sea-men seek not the Lord so ear∣nestly [Observ. 17] in tempestuous storms,*but they have need of stirring up to seek him ear∣nestlier.

1659, Daniel Pell, Πελαγοσ [Pelagos]. Nec inter Vivos, nec inter Mortuos, neither amongst the Living, nor amongst the Dead. Or, An Improvement of the Sea, upon the Nine Nautical Verses in the 107. Psalm; […], London: […] Livewell Chapman, […], page 483; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

That this power he had the more eaſily obtain’d, becauſe the Princeſs Altezeera by marrying Pacorus, had declar’d herſelf as much an Enemy to Rome, as to me; and being the apparent Succeſſor of Armenia, the Senate were juſtly jealous of uniting that Crown with the Parthian: That too he had the earneſtlier ambition’d this, becauſe that forfeiture of Artabazus’s gave me a right to Armenia by my birth, which a Roman Army would ſo confirm, that he would find in injuring Artavaſdes, he had as much wrong’d his intereſt, as his honeſty.

1676, [Roger Boyle, 1st] Earl of Orrery, Parthenissa, That Most Fam’d Romance. […], London: […] T. N. for Henry Herringman, […], page 347:

And so all along, if he tell thee of thy Dead∣ness, Dulness, Coldness, or Unbelief, or the greatness of thy Sins; answer him, and say, I am glad you told me, I hope it will be a means to make me run faster, seek earnestli∣er, and to be the more restless after Jesus Christ.

1685, John Bunyan, The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded: or, A Discourse Touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the One, and the Nature of the Other: Shewing What They Are, as They Are the Two Covenants; […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], page 324; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

There was a queer young Swede at our prayer-meeting. He could hardly talk English enough to make himself understood, and once he stopped and said, “I no can tell it. It is behind my expression.” / But he said some things I could make out. He said, “O, that we all might earnestlier be!” / And he prayed that we might be kept “vatching” and might be full of “zhoy.”

1890, Mary E[llen] Bamford, A Piece of Kitty Hunter’s Life, New York, N.Y.: Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, Oh.: Cranston & Stowe, pages 17–18:

“When we get out of Shadiest Africa, perhaps,” says John, consolingly, “I shall probably find a living waiting for me at the post office, Zanzibar, But it is wrong to holler till you are out of the wood.” / “And we are very much in it at present,” sighs Alweelia. She looks up at the sombre branches which form an impenetrable. . . . . “But, as you know, I only live for you.” / Earnestlier than ever he has wished anything does John Pettyblue wish that Alweelia would not take the trouble.

1891 January 14, “Atcha: A Sternutation in Six Explosions. V.”, in Fun, volume LIII, number 1340, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 17, column 2:

(obsolete) comparative form of earnestly: more earnestly


milquetoastedly

en-adv

milquetoastedly (comparative more milquetoastedly, superlative most milquetoastedly)

more milquetoastedly (comparative)
most milquetoastedly (superlative)

Last evening, at supper, my wife looked at me menacingly and said, “What’s the matter, what wrong with my cooking?” all I could do was to look at her and milquetoastedly say: “Something is missing in my soup, Devey. You always cook it supremely when you are all steamed up. Didn’t you read the Voice of the People today?”

1972 May 13, Alvin M., “[Voice of the People] Disband the Voice”, in Franklin D. Schurz Jr., editor, The South Bend Tribune, volume C, number 66, South Bend, Ind., page 6, column 8:

A bottle of commercially-prepared hot sauce at the ready suggested you add the gusto yourself. Milquetoastedly, I shook on a teaspoonful, tasted, then added more.

1984 August 26, James Tallon, “Confessions of a Mexican food addict”, in Arizona (The Arizona Republic), Phoenix, Ariz., page 17, column 1:

1989 December 10, Jonathan Yardley, “‘Mister Books’ ads Milquetoast-edly pull their punches”, in The Morning Call, number 35,494, Allentown, Pa.: The Morning Call, Inc., →ISSN, page F8

Don’t let yourself be milquetoastedly intimidated by sober equations, credentials, and prizes.

2009, Pablo Triana, “An Unhealthy Yearning for Precision”, in Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 278:

Elon Musk accused the band [Green Day] of going "from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it" after [Billie Joe] Amstrong swapped a line in the song “American Idiot,” changing it from "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" to "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda.”

2024 January 1, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, “Elon Musk Defends MAGA After Green Day’s Slap On New Year’s Eve Broadcast”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2024-01-01:


unself-consciously

unself-consciously (comparative more unself-consciously, superlative most unself-consciously)

more unself-consciously (comparative)
most unself-consciously (superlative)


crystal clearly

crystal clearly (comparative more crystal clearly, superlative most crystal clearly)

more crystal clearly (comparative)
most crystal clearly (superlative)

And then Rook snapped out of it and noticed (in this strange state he was in—an aftereffect of the soma?) as clear as day everything—almost as if a sixth sense had become acute and he was fully aware of his eminent and imminent death and he saw everything crystal clearly and noticed that Anatoli, usually calm as a cucumber on the set, was now sweating and not calm and perhaps claustrophobic?

2009, Kevin Glavin, “The Kali Club”, in Rock Star’s Rainbow, Irvine, Calif.: Kevin Glavin Publishing, →ISBN, pages 311–312:

Sitting in my car, bereft and broken, I saw everything crystal clearly. I’d hurt them both. And now I’d lost them both.

2015, Gina Ciocca, chapter 30, in Last Year’s Mistake, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 288:

(I can’t help note that one of her pieces of advice was for me to tell her, “You would look better than her in that outfit,” which contradicted her telling me that she didn’t like being compared. She did like favorable comparisons, so it’s not like she was communicating crystal clearly either.)

2017, Joshua Spodek, “Feedforward”, in Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow, New York, N.Y.: Amacom Books, →ISBN, unit 2 (Leading Yourself), page 115:


shamedly

shamedly (comparative more shamedly, superlative most shamedly)

more shamedly (comparative)
most shamedly (superlative)

And so it spreads its buds to show its gossamer of white — / But blushes shamedly the while and tints the blossoms pink.

1929, California Almond Growers Exchange, Minute Book (volume 2, issue 2)


agrotechnically

In a manner pertaining to agrotechnology; in an agrotechnical sense or manner.


third-hand

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

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


dimplingly

She laughed dimplingly.

(rare) So as to produce dimples in one's face.


polynymously

(very rare) In a polynymous way or manner.


polyonymously

(very rare) In a polyonymous way or manner.


amnesically

amnesically (not generally comparable, comparative more amnesically, superlative most amnesically)

more amnesically (comparative)
most amnesically (superlative)

[…] amnesically remember the arms race, the international embargoes, the military interventions, the suppression of Marxist revolutionaries, the threats of […]

2003, Jana Evans Braziel, “"Profit and Nothing But!" (Le Profit et rien d'autre!): Raoul Peck's impolite thoughts on the (Haitian diasporic) class struggle”, in Journal of Haitian Studies, volume 9, number 2, pages 141–176:

[referring to author Michele Lynn Harris] Her manuscript Blackdamp explores the cultural, historical, and emotional geography of rural Western Pennsylvania — a landscape once lit orange by the blast furnaces of steel mills, pockmarked by industry, and now amnesically pastoral. She hopes to resuscitate the memory of this place where woods have grown over whole towns, where a flood struck so deadly it caused fires, and where flowers grow Bunsen-blue among jagger bushes.

2013, Artists Beyond the Desk, a subcommittee of the MIT Working Group for Support Staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Past performances: Fall 2013–Spring 2014, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, retrieved 2024-01-09:

Such assertions simultaneously and amnesically overlook the diverse ways in which schools have collaborated over the years (Armstrong and Ainscow, 2018; Keddie, 2014) — indeed, collective professional amnesia appears to be fundamental to making new education reforms work (Gunter, forthcoming), as does derision of the past […]

2020, Steven J. Courtney, Ruth McGinity, “System leadership as depoliticisation: reconceptualising educational leadership in a new multi-academy trust”, in Educational Management Administration and Leadership, volume 50, number 6, →DOI:

(uncommon) Synonym of amnestically: in an amnesic way: in an amnestic way.


bookwards

(dated) Towards a book or books; towards the point of publication as a book.


stronglier

Metals have nothing in their Pores but the Fluid of the Air, in a Condition as fine or ſubtle, as the electrical Stream itſelf, and ſo the Atoms of the electrical Stream act upon the Atoms in the Pores of the Metal, in much the ſame Manner, as Light upon the exhauſted Receiver, which reflects it ſtronglier, than the condenſed does; […]

a. 1738, John Hutchinson, Glory or Gravity, the Mechanical or Second Part. […], volume XI, London: […] James Hodges, […], published 1749, pages 301–302:

This I’ll preach, the newer gospel, preach it stronglier than before, / Preach it in the towns and cities, on the mountains, on the shore: […]

1893, George Barlow, “The Story of the Life of Caleb Smith the Methodist Minister, told by Himself”, in The Crucifixion of Man: A Narrative Poem, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. […], page 143:

The prince Dara / Has once more bit the dust at Kandahar. / The Persians hold it stronglier than ever, / And our troops waste away. The prince / Says ’tis impregnable and desires return.

1934, L[ouis] Stanley Jast, Shah Jahan: A Play in Five Acts, London: Grafton & Co. […], page 21:

(rare) comparative form of strongly: more strongly


on book

(theater, uncommon) Referencing a script; not recited from memory.


transhistorically

Sexual identities are culturally and historically "real," rather than biologically or transhistorically "real."

1990 August 31, Marc Stein, “A Century Of Queerness”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 7:


as what

Synonym of as fuck (“to a great extent or degree”)


plasmodially

plasmodially active

plasmodially infected

In terms of, or by means of, a plasmodium.


mensurationally

He was aurally as well as mensurationally isolated from the rest of the ship.

1960, J.E. Macdonnell, Escort Ship, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, published 1972, page 18:

With regard to measurement or mensuration.


pearl-clutchingly

In a way or manner that provokes pearl-clutching.


one more again

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-one more again.wav

Let me give it to you one more again.

(African-American Vernacular, idiomatic, slang) One more time; once again.


ultraprecisely

ultraprecisely (comparative more ultraprecisely, superlative most ultraprecisely)

more ultraprecisely (comparative)
most ultraprecisely (superlative)


strongliest

(rare) superlative form of strongly: most strongly


fashitsho

@PGC_ICON #fashitsho

2011 March 12, @HughHalfbreed, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

@Only1DeJ Fashitsho.

2011 September 12, @firstnamerod, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

I been feelin good lately, we goin up fashitsho

2016 June 10, @kellium333, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

i jus be letting u hoes talk cz i kno fashitsho yall can't fight😂😂😂🤦🏽♂

2019 February 19, @SelfPaidJT, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

Aye, I'm havin' my way with all these niggas, yeah, fashitsho / When Rizzoo called my phone, they knew it's finna be a shitshow

2021 December 31, “Serious”performed by Rizzoo Rizzoo ft. Monaleo:

Hey, nah fashitsho, man / Old sauce ass nigga

2022 May 11, “Monday Night Raw”performed by Sosamann:

Why you beefing with a kiddo / Why you talking to your pillow / I was stretching shit fashitsho / Book the opps, that'd be a shitshow

2023 August 4, BLP Kosher (lyrics and music), “The Nac 3”:


many a time and often

many a time and oft
many a time and oft#English


for the time

for the time being
for the time being#English

(obsolete) Synonym of for the time being


scalily

scalily (comparative more scalily, superlative most scalily)

more scalily (comparative)
most scalily (superlative)


perhappenstance

"Shove it," Sam concluded, and then went out, but came in soon, from the numbing cold of the Iranian plain, where he had been assistant-in-the-way in a half-cracked but hell-bent search for the elusive and abominable, so-called, snowman, or a facsimile reasonably thereof, perhappenstance, sponsored by a genial Texas oilman who was bored with searching just underground, and wanted to get into something deeper, or higher, depending upon the depletion of his resources, his mind among them.

1976 Spring, George W. Smyth, “Bending Hell”, in South Dakota Review, volume 14, number 1, Vermillion, S.D.: University of South Dakota, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:

and just perhappenstance why shouldn;t^([sic]) YOU 'get over it' and stop supporting plagarism?

2001 February 23, JnyVee., “Eminem Bites”, in rec.audio.pro (Usenet):

Or perhappenstance, the Three Stooges?

2003 December 13, Coin Saver, “F/A barber quarter”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet):

Morgan probably ran away at age fourteen to live adrift in the cities, perhappenstance to dine exclusively on Twinkies, a recreational breakfast food known to the state of California to induce criminal behaviors.

2004, Bernard M. Patten, The Blood of a Million Christs, Bookman, →ISBN, page 126:


motherfunking

This movie is motherfunking gross!

It's a motherfunking disaster!

(euphemistic, slang) bowdlerization of motherfucking


adwise

We brought in new marketing concepts for the picture. We prescribed new ads. We gave the picture a different look adwise.

1982 November 8, Lillian Ross, quoting James Spitz, “Onward and Upward with the Arts: Some Figures on a Fantasy”, in The New Yorker, volume 58, number 38, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-21, page 111:

Notably, FKF also rated Super Bowl XLI in 2007, dubbed it, adwise, "the year of the amygdala," and predicted that the majority of ads would be "unsuccessful."

2013, Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfel, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 174:

So, adwise, they gradually became a team. The Taye and Ashley Show. He with the shaved head, muscled body and killer smile. She with the baby-blue eyes, lush body, amazing boobs and tumbling blond curls. They got together with the best photographers and soon created a partnership brand.

2012, Jackie Collins, The Power Trip, London […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 13:


Pavlovianly

Pavlovianly (comparative more Pavlovianly, superlative most Pavlovianly)

more Pavlovianly (comparative)
most Pavlovianly (superlative)

To be sure, the audience, Pavlovianly primed by some of our premier playwrights and critics, laughs and laughs, and applauds and applauds. One wonders how many theatergoers, queried about just what they saw and cheered, could come up with a cogent reply. Would they even know that the stuff is the exact antithesis of life-affirming?

2003 October 9, “In Brief: Beckett/Albee”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

I started watching this debate hoping that Nick Clegg would wipe the floor with the other guys. This is not solely because Pavlovianly, I salivate at any mention of the words "Liberal Democrat"; in the past (from a safe distance to be sure) I've always preferred Labour, even when poor old threadbare Michael Foot was in charge.

2010 April 29, Hendrik Hertzberg, “Debate, British Style”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-27:

Against medical advice, I pour a can of Diet Coke into the Stanley. It gives me a similar uncanny feeling to drinking water out of the straw. I think I've been Pavlovianly trained to enjoy drinking Diet Coke out of the can at my desk, and my brain is having trouble processing it coming out of another vessel.

2024 January 25, Heather Schwedel, “I Spent a Week Parading My Coveted Stanley Cup Around New York City”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-27:

Pavlovian conditioning
Pavlovian conditioning#Noun

(informal) In a Pavlovian manner; involving Pavlovian conditioning.


any moment now

The grease on his hand from Burt’s apron meant that slowly but surely he was losing his grip. Any moment now, he was going to breathe his last breath.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:


schwifty

schwifty (comparative more schwifty, superlative most schwifty)

more schwifty (comparative)
most schwifty (superlative)

(Internet slang, fandom slang neologism) To lose all inhibition while having fun; to go wild, to go crazy.


with one hand

typing with one hand

You can tell they drew this frame with one hand

2024 September 3, @ruesatoru90, Twitter:

(mildly vulgar, euphemistic) While masturbating.

I can crack an egg with one hand.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see with, one, hand.


pyrographically

By means of, or in terms of, pyrography.


puppily

puppily (comparative more puppily, superlative most puppily)

more puppily (comparative)
most puppily (superlative)

Sometimes I was puppily in love, sometimes I was pettily in love, and sometimes — due to my OCD — I was even pathologically in love.

2012, Jordan Rex Jensen, Psalms of Life:


pun intended

Used to acknowledge that what one has just said, or what one is about to say, could be viewed as a pun.


from this time on

from this moment on
from this moment on#English


from that time on

Synonym of from this moment on (specifically referring to an event in the recent past)


many is the time

(dated, literary) A great number of times.


many's the time

many is the time
many is the time#English


times and often

(dated, obsolete, literary) A many number of times; often.


mouthpuckeringly

mouthpuckeringly (comparative more mouthpuckeringly, superlative most mouthpuckeringly)

more mouthpuckeringly (comparative)
most mouthpuckeringly (superlative)


mouth-puckeringly

mouth-puckeringly (comparative more mouth-puckeringly, superlative most mouth-puckeringly)

more mouth-puckeringly (comparative)
most mouth-puckeringly (superlative)

But it is the beer's mouthpuckeringly sour body that helps separate it from tamer summer seasonals.

2010, Andy Crouch, Great American Craft Beer: A Guide to the Nation's Finest Beers and Breweries, Philadelphia, P.A.: Running Press, →ISBN, page 84:

It's a mouth-puckeringly tart movie that's tonally in a world of its own – darkly disturbing, absurd, brutal and silly, with a batsqueak of bonkers.

2019 November 21, Cath Clarke, “Judy & Punch review – brutal and brilliantly bizarre #MeToo fairytale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-07:

So as to cause someone's mouth to pucker (become squeezed together).


satisfactually

satisfactually (comparative more satisfactually, superlative most satisfactually)

more satisfactually (comparative)
most satisfactually (superlative)

Possibly from satisfactual + -ly, although satisfactual is attested significantly later and in different contexts. Alternatively, a nonstandard variant of satisfactorily, especially in non-native speakers' English.

My Anſwer is, that tho' the true God cannot be worſhipped nor known to the Satisfaction of the Soul, under the higheſt reaſonable Ructitude or Sanctification, till the aforeſaid time is commenced; yet there is a new Heart provided, by which the true God is as clearly ſeen, and as ſatisfactually underſtood, and as truly worſhipped as he will be at the Reſtitution of all Things.

1727, The True Key to the Bible, Which Is the Mediator, London: [s.n.], page 15:

He sets the figurine down, clasps his hand to his breast and smiles satisfactually.

1952 December, Alice Whitson Norton, “Christmas Eve In A Toy Shop”, in American Childhood, volume 38, number 4, Springfield, M.A.: Milton Bradley Company, page 28:

Having said this, I have to return now to what is the sort of proposal or the wager implicit in my paper, which is that even if one accepts that during this period (roughly from about 1790 to 1850) the defining forms through which we come to know the art of our own century become fixed and established in all their contradictory plurality, then how is it that we can satisfactually start to analyse them and to see how our historical knowledge of them might be important for present day practice?

1998, Stopping the Process? Contemporary Views on Art and Exhibitions, Helsinki: Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, →ISBN, page 83:

A complex decision tree analysis led to the development of the score and initial validation at development found the score predicted mortality satisfactually when used as an aggregate score and not calculating absolute mortality risk.

2018 May, Tara E. Holm Atkins, Malin C. Öhman, Mikkel Brabrand, “External validation of a decision tree early warning score using only laboratory data: A retrospective review of prospectively collected data”, in European Journal of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 1:

(nonstandard) In a way that involves satisfaction or makes someone satisfied; satisfactorily, satisfiedly.


ear-achingly

ear-achingly (comparative more ear-achingly, superlative most ear-achingly)

more ear-achingly (comparative)
most ear-achingly (superlative)

Next she began making humming noises in an ear-achingly high-pitched tone. It was like someone running their fingers along the rim of a glass.

2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “The Smell of Old Books”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 41:


splashlessly

She feels a breeze on her forehead, night wind. The fox is stroking splashlessly forward. The fox does not fail.

2016 January 3, Anne Carson, chapter 1, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-06:

In a splashless manner; without splashes or splashing.


unfortunatly

unfortunatly (comparative more unfortunatly, superlative most unfortunatly)

more unfortunatly (comparative)
most unfortunatly (superlative)


time about

(Scotland) In turn; by turns; alternately.


over night

VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.

1672, Thomas Shadwell, The Miser: A Comedy, […], London: […] Thomas Collins and John Ford, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

On the ſecond day of my impriſonment, I was viſited by the duke of L——, a friend of my lord, who found me ſitting upon a trunk, in a poor little dining-room filled with lumber, and lighted with two bits of tallow-candle, which had been left over night.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The memoirs of a lady of quality”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 170:

Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.

1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 77:

Over night from chaperon of a nasty tempered cavalry horse to breakfastmate of the colonel of the regiment, is Sergeant Bill Gray’s record in “Twenty-three and a Half Hours’ Leave.”

1919 November 14, “The Screen”, in The Evening Nonpareil, volume XIV, number 167, Council Bluffs, Ia., page 8, column 3:

Over 200 homeless women and children sat-in over night at the state house to protest inadequate state funding for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).

1987 March 29 – April 4, Kim Westheimer, “[News Notes] homeless women & children sit-in”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 36, Boston, Mass.: Bromfield Street Educational Foundation, Inc., →ISSN, page 4, column 3:

This commonsense approach would indicate that monies should be paid into a bank as soon as possible for security reasons if nothing else. This is why most banks operate night safe systems as many organisations prefer to deposit their daily takings each evening rather than running the risk of having the cash on the premises over night.

2009 July, Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality, “Forms of payment and security”, in CTH Diploma in Tourism/Hotel Management: Finance for Tourism and Hospitality, Study Guide, London: BPP Learning Media, →ISBN, page 99:


chaotropically

chaotropically (comparative more chaotropically, superlative most chaotropically)

more chaotropically (comparative)
most chaotropically (superlative)

(biochemistry, physical chemistry) In a chaotropic manner.


counteringly

counteringly (comparative more counteringly, superlative most counteringly)

more counteringly (comparative)
most counteringly (superlative)

Round 3. Both men came up cautiously and sparred for wind. Morris landed on the other man’s jaw, Hornbacher counteringly heavily on the body.

1887 March 12, “Eight Savage Rounds”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 12, number 292, St. Louis, Mo., page 7, column 3:

PSYCHOLOGY TESTS which may determine whether you get or keep a job in today’s computerized employment market are counteringly termed an essential hiring tool and an invasion of privacy.

1968 September 29, “Inside Today’s Journal-Courier”, in Jacksonville Daily Journal in Combination with The Jacksonville Courier, volume 16, number 39, Jacksonville, Ill., page 1, column 6:

He heard the mewling moans of passion coming from the throats of both women, and counteringly there were also the more muted sounds of moistly moving tongues and lips.

1980, Ruth Allison, chapter 10, in The Love Goddess, Encino, Calif.: World-Wide Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 170:

No doubt my aesthetic reflections are partly crippled from my being an habitual inmate of libraries and museums, and fettered with the intellectual’s defensive irony. Hence I self-skeptically make no totalizing claim for any anarchist aesthetic, which may well find other freedoms than mine. But one can, I libertarianly hope, also counteringly learn. Artful play is where you find and live it, like the bird against the contrary winds.

1993 winter, Kingsley Widmer, “Anarchist Aesthetics: A Few Notes Towards a Libertarian View of the Arts”, in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, volume 13, number 1/35, Columbia, Mo.: C.A.L. [Columbia Anarchist League] Press, →ISSN, page 53, column 2:

The problem was, he wasn’t allowing her to make anything sound final. His patience with her extended itself deftly, counteringly, before any move she thought to make.

1997, Elizabeth Tallent, “Listen to Reason”, in The Good Housekeeping Short Story Collection, London: Arrow Books Limited, Random House UK Ltd, →ISBN, page 174:

Noah, symptomatically, speaks of chaos, ‘madness and constant troubled confusions’. Nathaniel agrees, but, counteringly, invokes the music of Ironwood, the jazz and blues of the ‘wounded … blind bard warrior’ as offering black spiritual harmonizations amid all the disorder.

1998, A. Robert Lee, “Equilibrium Out of Their Chaos: Black Modernism, Black Postmodernism and Leon Forrest’s Witherspoon-Bloodworth Trilogy”, in Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, London, Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press, →ISBN, page 187:

I would have to remind her, counteringly, that you don’t pick the person who fronts your life—you get picked, you watch the picker’s ankles vanish into the scrunched socks afterward (his whole body going blank behind the blue-black of the uniform), and the picker goes off in the starkest of transportations: you keep an ear cocked ever after for the return of his van and its paraphernalian clatter in the gravelled driveway.

2004, Gary Lutz, “Uncle”, in Peter Conners, editor, PP/FF: An Anthology, Buffalo, N.Y.: Starcherone Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 179:

There was something counteringly magical about the rocking motion of the boat as it crested the small waves of the sea out from the coast, and a rhythm to the little pound the hull made over each crest, the little lunge forward toward the wider ocean, as if deliberately draining away memory.

2018, John Zeugner, “A, B, C, Kiet Hoang, Waldo Jelliffe”, in This Footstool Earth, Eugene, Ore.: Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:

(rare) In a manner that counters someone or something.


expendably

expendably (comparative more expendably, superlative most expendably)

more expendably (comparative)
most expendably (superlative)


libertarianly

libertarianly (comparative more libertarianly, superlative most libertarianly)

more libertarianly (comparative)
most libertarianly (superlative)

The typical libertarian sees he has two sorts of opponents, but in fact he has three, and the position of the third is more radical than he has realised. (i) There are indeed those who have not analysed the issue correctly, such as philosophers who accuse him of confusion between prescriptive and descriptive law. (ii) There are indeed those who experience their choice ‘libertarianly’ and then treat this as illusion on a priori grounds.

1968, R[ichard] L[angdon] Franklin, “Basic Presuppositions”, in Freewill and Determinism: A Study of Rival Conceptions of Man (International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York, N.Y.: Humanities Press, →ISBN, section III (The Nature of the Debate), page 48:

The most fundamental disagreement between the deterministically-minded and the libertarianly-minded has to do with the question of man’s continuity with nature. Against the discontinuity presupposed by a libertarian position on free will, Franklin thinks there is set “the whole development and ethos of scientific thought”.

1984, S[elwyn] A[lfred] Grave, “‘Australian Materialism’”, in A History of Philosophy in Australia, St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, pages 137–138:

This may be appropriate counter to some current ostensibly libertarian “aesthetics of social ecology” (such as Suzi Gablik, The Reenchantment of Art), which anti-modernistically (and Bookchininly) promotes arts “emphasizing our essential interconnectedness rather than our separateness, forms evoking the feeling of belonging to a larger whole rather than expressing the isolated, alienated self.” Sounds libertarianly hopeful, but that is to be done by would-be upbeat communal art-experiences formed by shaman artists, exploiting all the dubious mythologies handy, recreating an enchanting religion of art, for which there seem to be plenty of aspirants, and New Age markets. […] No doubt my aesthetic reflections are partly crippled from my being an habitual inmate of libraries and museums, and fettered with the intellectual’s defensive irony. Hence I self-skeptically make no totalizing claim for any anarchist aesthetic, which may well find other freedoms than mine. But one can, I libertarianly hope, also counteringly learn. Artful play is where you find and live it, like the bird against the contrary winds.

1993 winter, Kingsley Widmer, “Anarchist Aesthetics: A Few Notes Towards a Libertarian View of the Arts”, in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, volume 13, number 1/35, Columbia, Mo.: C.A.L. [Columbia Anarchist League] Press, →ISSN, pages 50 and 53:

The other person always has a libertarian claim to what we explicitly give him a future claim to or contract to give him (if he keeps his side of the contract and if we have acquired our property by libertarian means). We cannot libertarianly insist that he instead accept compensation merely for any inconvenience. […] Murray Newton Rothbard considers that contractual specific performance and contractual slavery cannot be libertarianly possible because he thinks that this requires the person to “alienate his will” and that this is logically impossible.

1996, Jan Clifford Lester, “Market-Anarchy, Liberty, and Pluralism”, in John T. Sanders, Jan Narveson, editors, For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 66:

This definition would be problematic, at least for a theist, if it entailed that Mary could not be a creature relative to God or Mary must be a mode or state of God rather than a substance. But none of these things do follow. Mary need not, in my technically defined sense, be an object relative to God in order for Mary to be, say, a libertarianly free self-conscious substance (i.e. a person).

1997, Keith E[dward] Yandell, “Religious experience”, in Philip L[awrence] Quinn, Charles Taliaferro, editors, A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy), Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers Inc.; […], →ISBN, part VI (The Justification of Theistic Belief), page 370:

Is significant freedom or is only libertarian freedom necessary for loving relationships? If libertarian freedom is all that is required, then one might suggest that God could have created libertarianly free beings who would freely love him and one another.

1998, John [Ernest] Sanders, “Notes”, in The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 317:


unsalably

unsalably (comparative more unsalably, superlative most unsalably)

more unsalably (comparative)
most unsalably (superlative)


unsaleably

unsaleably (comparative more unsaleably, superlative most unsaleably)

more unsaleably (comparative)
most unsaleably (superlative)


theophilosophically

theophilosophically (comparative more theophilosophically, superlative most theophilosophically)

more theophilosophically (comparative)
most theophilosophically (superlative)


loftly

loftly (comparative more loftly, superlative most loftly)

more loftly (comparative)
most loftly (superlative)


quick as winking

And then I got a shock, for a couple of ragged patriots standing close by, leaned over as Elliot moved, their eyes shining viciously, and quick as winking out came their pops, and I saw them ready and willing, yes, darned anxious to shoot.

1916, Adventure, volume 13, numbers 1-3, page 129:


early bells

[…] out early bells, chucking your towel on the sunbed and making sure Jerry doesn't get there first.

2012, Bill Leckie, Penthouse and Pavement:


en garçon

"Were Lady Shropshire and Lady Silverlake there?"
“Oh, no!—the husbands are doing Paris en garçon."
"How very horrid!" she decides. "You wouldn't care to go about en garçon, would you, my own?”
"Certainly not," he answers fervently. But he has made up his mind to go out en garçon all the same.

1887, Mrs. [wife of?] Alexander Fraser, “Drifting”, in Daughters of Belgravia, volume 3, London: F. V. White & Co., page 116:

“Of course, we talked over your delightful dinner-party of last night,” he said, “and agreed in the agreeableness of it. And she asked me to dine there, en garçon, on Tuesday next. Of course, I said I must consult you first; […] But if there was nothing going on, I promised to dine there en garçon.”
That phrase had evidently taken Major Ames’ fancy; there was a ring of youth about it, and he repeated it with gusto.

1912, E. F. Benson, chapter IV, in Mrs. Ames, Toronto, London: The Musson Book Company Limited; Hodder and Stoughton, pages 97-98:

As a bachelor, or as if one were a bachelor; without one's wife.


Presbyterially

Presbyterially (comparative more Presbyterially, superlative most Presbyterially)

more Presbyterially (comparative)
most Presbyterially (superlative)

This clear identification of Bishop and Priest as belonging to one and the same order, and (as a consequence of this, to say nothing of other reasons) the recognition of all Presbyterially governed Churches as true parts of the Catholic Church, was an undisputed point even at the very outset of the reformation, that is to say, even when the Anglican Reformers had not yet got their bearings on many other matters, such for example, as the Mass, the Seven Sacraments, etc.

1916, Edward McCrady, Where the Protestant Episcopal Church Stands: A Review of Official Definitions Versus Non-Official Theories Concerning the Nature and Extent of The Church Catholic, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company […], page 272:

Q. Do you mean that the ordination of the A.M.E. Church is Episcopally historic? A. I mean that it is Presbyterially historic, or, in other words, that through the ordination of four Methodist ministers and Absalom Jones, a Priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Bishop Allen received a succession of hands, though through Priests, Presbyters, or elders, which gives his ordination the stamp of primitive Christianity, and made him, through the call of the entire church an ECCLESIASTICAL BISHOP, though not prelatically apostolical.

1982, Frederick A[bbott] Norwood, editor, Sourcebook of American Methodism, Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, published 1984, →ISBN, page 365:

The man was soon to come whose long ministry to the congregation was to provide a blessing indeed. This was the Rev. Drury Lacy, the first Presbyterially installed pastor of the church.

1991, The History of First Presbyterian Church, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1816-1991, Raleigh, N.C.: […] Commercial Printing Co., page 28:


presbyterianly

presbyterianly (comparative more presbyterianly, superlative most presbyterianly)

more presbyterianly (comparative)
most presbyterianly (superlative)

Every one knows that there was scarcely an individual among them who was not in familiar and affectionate correspondence with the Reformed churches on the continent; […] that native clergymen, presbyterianly ordained on the continent, were admitted without objection to hold preferment in England, without re-ordination; […]

1838 January, “Art[icle] V.—Tracts for the Times. By members of the University of Oxford. Second Edition. London. J. G. & F. Rivington. 1837. Three volumes.”, in The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review for the Year 1838, volume X, number I, Philadelphia, Pa.: James A. Peabody, […] J. Bogart, […], page 93:

And what the form of church government agreed to by the king and the General Assembly was in 1604, we have already seen; and therefore, where the supposed Church is to be found, distinct from the Church of which we have been speaking, I am unable to conjecture; and wherever it was, it had no bishops, for none existed; and only presbyterianly ordained pastors, for none others were to be found; and consequently, however well the words sound, I do not see how they advance the cause they are intended to promote.

1853, W[illiam] Goode, “On the Term ‘Church of Scotland’ in the Fifty-Fifth Canon”, in A Reply to Archdeacon Churton and Chancellor Harington, on the Term “Church of Scotland” in the Fifty-Fifth Canon, and on Non-Episcopal Ordinations, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: A[nson] D[avies] F[itz] Randolph, […], page 10:

The House of Shaws was a long, white granite two-storey manse with a heart-stopping view, but presbyterianly small windows.

1996, A[drian] A[nthony] Gill, Sap Rising, London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 234:


modalistically

modalistically (comparative more modalistically, superlative most modalistically)

more modalistically (comparative)
most modalistically (superlative)


fatherlily

fatherlily (comparative more fatherlily, superlative most fatherlily)

more fatherlily (comparative)
most fatherlily (superlative)

Yours respectfully and fatherlily, / J. B.

1864 July/August, John Brown, “To the Same [his son]”, in [John “Jock” Brown], D[avid] W[illiam] Forrest, editors, Letters of Dr. John Brown: With Letters from Ruskin, Thackeray, and Others […], London: Adam and Charles Black, published 1907, page 172:

There was a far, fair future in which he and this child, viewing the great work they should do together, might, too, say reverently: “What hath God wrought!” He smiled; he was no longer alone. / His Christmas present presently stirred in his sleep, woke, and sat up. / “Wanterjinkerwater!” said he plaintively. “Dimmyjinkerwater!” / Vain of the delightful fact that he so readily understood this angelic lingo, John got the water, eager to wait fatherlily upon his child. The little man drank slowly, with long and deliberate pauses between little sips. […] Candles and firelight dancing on the walls; upon the table nothing worse than bread and milk and an open bible. And John himself, kneeling, smiling fatherlily upon a rosy and roguish elf who paddled in a glass of water and laughed gleefully.

1921, Marie Conway Oemler, “Linden Goes Home”, in Where the Young Child Was and Also The Spirit of the House, The Youngest Officer, Linden Goes Home, The Little Brown House, That Makes the World Go Round, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., pages 158–159:

Not now, but soon, and in a very few weeks, the Marchy winds already blowing, Mr. Eldredge of Mystic will be putting fatherlily his matchless peas in the frost-rid ground—after smoothing over the old ground-mole holes—and our friends in far, fair Florida, may safely move them to return.

1926 February 17, Frederick P. Latimer, “To Our Absent Friends”, in The New London Evening Day, New London, Conn., page six, column 4:

With a gentle smile that seemed unsuited to the mouth of so brave a soldier, he looked fatherlily around, his big eyes watching everything with a look of dazzled delight.

1949, Philip Lindsay, “Long Live the King”, in The Loves of My Lord Admiral, London: Hutchinson Library Services, published 1974, →ISBN, page 18:

“Don’t worry son,” said my father, fatherlily, “rules are made to be broken.”

2017 November 4, Will Hall, “Abide with me”, in Varsity, Cambridge, Cambs.: Varsity Publications Ltd, archived from the original on 2024-03-10:


anno lucis

From Latin [Term?] (literally “in the year of light”).

bor

Indicating a year in Masonic ceremonial or commemorative proceedings, equivalent to the Gregorian year plus 4000.


near by

en-adv

near by (comparative more near by, superlative most near by)

more near by (comparative)
most near by (superlative)

We were on deck at the time, and the head-man of my woodcutters, lounging near by, turned upon him his heavy and glittering eyes.

1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion), page 635, column 1:

If you are full, call somebody to take us and our baggage to some hotel near by that is not full.

1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part III, section IV, page 97:

Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.

1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 110, column 1:


Peraphy

Peraphy (comparative more Peraphy, superlative most Peraphy)

more Peraphy (comparative)
most Peraphy (superlative)


misopogonistically

... where he and Basil read together poems and philosophies, and holier things, or talked low and misopogonistcally of their fellow-student Julian’s bearded boding smile were his happiest days.

1877, E.B. Browning, Some account of the Greek Christian poets, page 147:


liably

liably (comparative more liably, superlative most liably)

more liably (comparative)
most liably (superlative)

In a liable manner; susceptibly; probably.


rookwise

Moving exclusively in cardinal directions, as a rook moves in chess


uproaringly

uproaringly (comparative more uproaringly, superlative most uproaringly)

more uproaringly (comparative)
most uproaringly (superlative)

They laughed, actually laughed uproaringly, as the bottom of the ladder neared a declivity still more greasy than the level ground around the pagoda, and not one stirred to arrest its downward progress, although but a little effort would have prevented what seemed an impending frightful sacrifice of life.

1860, W. H. Marshall, “Voyage to Rangoon in the ‘Nemesis.’—Amherst, on the Salween river.—The Irrawaddy.—[…]”, in Four Years in Burmah. […], volume I, London: Charles J[oseph] Skeet, […], page 319:

It generally happens that at county agricultural dinners the louder a donkey brays the more uproaringly he is applauded.

1873, Thomas Wright, “The Press and the People”, in Our New Masters, London: Strahan & Co. […], page 338:

His eyes twinkled, his laugh was uproaringly infectious.

1994, Edith Mucke, Beginning in Triumph: A Memoir, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:

And there was Beetrax, Beetrax of the Axe, his ginger beard bushy and hardly combed at all, his laugh uproaringly infectious and booming across the tavern, making men and women of lesser fibre look away with a shake of the head and a narrowed frown or scowl.

2016, Andy Remic, “The Cock”, in Twilight of the Dragons (The Blood Dragon Empire; II), Nottingham, Notts.: Angry Robot, →ISBN, page 21:


bishopwise

Moving exclusively in diagonals, as a bishop moves in chess


night after night

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-night after night.wav

Coordinate term: day after day

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (a week). Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Seven days a week. Every hour, every minute, every second. You know night after night, I'll be lovin' you right.

2023 July 14, “Seven”performed by Jungkook ft. Latto:

(informal) Every night or evening for a long period of time.


elucidatively

elucidatively (comparative more elucidatively, superlative most elucidatively)

more elucidatively (comparative)
most elucidatively (superlative)


elucidatingly

elucidatingly (comparative more elucidatingly, superlative most elucidatingly)

more elucidatingly (comparative)
most elucidatingly (superlative)


plainely

plainely (comparative more plainely, superlative most plainely)

more plainely (comparative)
most plainely (superlative)


overgreatly

overgreatly (comparative more overgreatly, superlative most overgreatly)

more overgreatly (comparative)
most overgreatly (superlative)


limpily

limpily (comparative more limpily, superlative most limpily)

more limpily (comparative)
most limpily (superlative)


sibei

(Manglish, Singlish) Alternative form of sibeh


cataplerotically

(biochemistry) Relating to cataplerosis.


sholy

sholy (comparative more sholy, superlative most sholy)

more sholy (comparative)
most sholy (superlative)

But I'd sholy like to know just exactly who I was giving my money to. Seems like Eck here would tell you.

1940, William Faulkner, The Hamlet […], London: Chatto & Windus, published 1979, →ISBN, book 4 (The Peasants), page 250:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

Pronunciation spelling of surely, representing African-American Vernacular English.


spandy

Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of spander-new, or from spick-and-span, both attested from the 17th century, while spandy clean appears in 1838 (see quotations below). Both spander-new and spick-and-span come from earlier span-new, which is attested from c. 1300.

I have heard of a ghost that always came in a new coat, smartly buttoned up, and a spandy clean dickey.

1838, Timo. Titterwell [Samuel Kettel], “Thoughts on seeing ghosts”, in Yankee Notions, page 115:

O, I forgot, the woman was wicked and she made her little girls sit in the parlor, all dressed up spandy clean, and she made Cindrilla sit in the coal-hod.

1891, Sophie May, Little Prudy, page 111:

“It means always celebrating New Year with new things – every single Tilley person.”
“Spandy new,” offered Jeffery, helpfully. “The newest ever.”

1921 January 1, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Tilley Celebration”, in The Sunday School Times, page 4:

(often with clean) Entirely, nicely, very.


drowningly

drowningly (comparative more drowningly, superlative most drowningly)

more drowningly (comparative)
most drowningly (superlative)

Coordinate term: swimmingly


unladylike-ly

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

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


processionwise

In the manner of a procession; walking one after the other.


phototelegraphically

By means of, or in terms of, phototelegraphy.


turbinately

turbinately (comparative more turbinately, superlative most turbinately)

more turbinately (comparative)
most turbinately (superlative)

Shaped or spinning like a top (spinning top).

(zoology) Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex.

(anatomy) Of, or relating to, the turbinate bone.


debasedly

debasedly (comparative more debasedly, superlative most debasedly)

more debasedly (comparative)
most debasedly (superlative)


coachwise

[…] borne coachwise along the spacious but yet empty avenues […]

[…] yoked coachwise and he that holds the plow drives them with two whip cords fastened to the fore horses and hung by two loopes upon each of his plough handles each of which he useth with great dexterity […]

quoted in 1968, Walter E. Minchinton, Essays in Agrarian History (volume 1, page 170)


continuately

continuately (comparative more continuately, superlative most continuately)

more continuately (comparative)
most continuately (superlative)


cozeningly

cozeningly (comparative more cozeningly, superlative most cozeningly)

more cozeningly (comparative)
most cozeningly (superlative)


copywise

The previous campaign for Tu has been highly successful and there is no argument for sudden change of direction this year — either visually or copywise.

1996, The Block Reader in Visual Culture, George Robertson, page 176:

Copywise, the MF3222 copies as fast as it prints - 20cpm. It doesn't just collate, it also has a 2-on-1 feature which allows you to save on paper and toner by printing two pages on a single sheet.


continuantly

continuantly (comparative more continuantly, superlative most continuantly)

more continuantly (comparative)
most continuantly (superlative)


scabrosely

scabrosely (comparative more scabrosely, superlative most scabrosely)

more scabrosely (comparative)
most scabrosely (superlative)


simplifiedly

simplifiedly (comparative more simplifiedly, superlative most simplifiedly)

more simplifiedly (comparative)
most simplifiedly (superlative)


slitwise

By means of, or in the manner of, a slit.


LWK

can u send another voice message cuz im lwk obsessed with ur voice

(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of low-key.


sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning (not comparable)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow.

sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow#English

Alternative form of sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow


sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow (not comparable)


sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow morning (not comparable)


furtherover

Inherited from Middle English furtherover. By surface analysis, further + over.

And furtherover they shall have default of all manner delices; […]

1916, Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, editor, English Prose:

Furtherover, we have all also no doubt struggled to balance the one-track demands of getting students though the exam versus spending the time that is required to develop the underlying skills needed to avoid the kinds of linguistic monstrosities quoted in the first sentence of this paragraph.

2004 August, Carol Griffiths, David Jordan, Strategies for Success in IELTS, page 2:

Furtherover, JNK3-mediated phosphorylation of Smac markedly attenuates the interaction between Smac and XIAP, […]

2007 October 5, “Phosphorylation of Smac by JNK3 attenuates its interaction with XIAP”, in Byoung Duck Park, Young Mi Ham, Hyun Ji Jeong, Seung Ju Cho, Young Tae Je, Kyu Dong Yoo, Seung-Ki Lee, editors, PubMed:

(conjunctive) In addition; moreover; furthermore; additionally.


gluttonly

en-adj

gluttonly (comparative more gluttonly, superlative most gluttonly)

more gluttonly (comparative)
most gluttonly (superlative)

From glutton + -ly. The adverb is attested in Middle English as glotonliche, glotonly, glotounliche (“voraciously, greedily”).

Pilgrims, now, within that larder, / Through the nibbled pastry see / Creeping things, in foul disorder, / Feasting gluttonly.

1846 November 21, E. A. Poh [pseudonym; Mathew Franklin Whittier], “The Haunted Pasty”, in Yankee Doodle, volume I, number VII, New York, N.Y.: […] William H. Graham’s, […], page 76, column 2:

Fill not your mouths gluttonly with large pieces, one upon the other.

1852, Moses Maimonides, translated by M[arcus] H[yman] Bresslau, “The Last Will of Rabbi Moses Maimonides, Addressed to His Son Rabbi Abraham”, in Hirsch Edelman, compiler, The Path of Good Men: A Collection of Parental Instructions to Children, by Authors Distinguished in Israel for Wisdom and Learning, […], London: […] A P. Shaw and Co., […], pages 31–32:

Then they drink all around, and sometimes they do drink right shamefully and gluttonly.

1900, William of Rubruck, translated by William Woodville Rockhill, “The Journey to the Eastern Parts of the World, of Friar William of Rubruck, of the Order of Minor Friars, in the Year of Grace mccliii”, in The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-55, […], London: […] The Hakluyt Society, page 63:

Such a scourge [i.e., pneumonia] that robs us gluttonly of our young and old, weak and strong, rich and poor needs our best thought and study.

1910 April, H. Edwin Lewis, “Introduction. Some Remarks on the History and Occurrence of Pneumonia, with Brief Statistical Data.”, in American Medicine, volume XVI, complete series / V, new series, number 4, Burlington, Vt., New York, N.Y.: American Medical Publishing Company, Original Articles section, page 167, column 2:

Perhaps a caterpillar is observed in the yard gluttonly munching on the wife’s prized petunias.

1955 July, Norman E. Flitters, “Bugs in His Lenses!”, in Arthur E. Gavin, editor, American Cinematographer: The Magazine of Motion Picture Photography, volume 36, number 7, Hollywood, Calif.: [T]he A. S. C. Agency, Inc., page 420:

The pickings are good. The City is strewn with stillborn. The hawk feeds gluttonly.

1972, Peter Neill, chapter 11, in Mock Turtle Soup, New York, N.Y.: Grossman Publishers, →ISBN, page 102:

Numerous contestants gathered to gluttonly gorge their alimentary canal with as many burgers as possible.

1973, “Burger Bust Gathers Campus Gluttons”, in DeSoto, Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University, Activities section, page 58:

Then a fourth camel entered the prairie and went on gluttonly eating its grass.

1979, Mohamad Jawad Chirri, “The Electoral Convention”, in The Brother of the Prophet Mohammad (The Imam Ali): A Reconstruction of Islamic History and an Extensive Research of the Shi-ite Islamic School of Thought, volume I, Detroit, Mich.: […] The Islamic Center of Detroit […], →OCLC, page 218:

The Bullfrog Sat On the Lily Pad, So Glad That it was a United States Frog - Fat, There on the Lily Pad feeding so fast and gluttonly on all the ponds^([sic]) Resources...

1981 August 1, Wayne Williams, “U.S. Amphibian Force”, in Earth First!, volume 1, number 7, Breckenridge, Colo., page 3, column 1:

In listening to Mr. Dingell, it sounds like the Medicare+Choice plan is some sort of carnivore that wanders into a region and gets fat on profits and, after fattening up, gluttonly wanders off for some strange reason, as if it doesn’t want to eat anymore.

2001 February 15, Jim Greenwood, quotee, Medicare Reform: Providing Prescription Drug Coverage for Seniors; Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, […] (Serial No. 107-1), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 77:


en-adv

sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow (not comparable)

From the fact that the Sun will indisputably rise the following day.

It's going to stay there, and I'm going to be able to bank that money someday as sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow.

1995, Lyle Stuart, Winning at Casino Gambling, Lyle Stuart, →ISBN, page 316:

Chuck: I don't know much about you folks, but I can tell you, sure as the sun's gon' come up tomorrow, that y'all keep going on like this and that girl ain't gonna make it.

2012 August 28, Telltale Games, The Walking Dead, Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS, Kindle Fire:

As sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow, you know that at some point, interest rates will rise again.

2014 August 29, Doyle Shuler, The Barefoot Retirement Plan:

Just as sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow, we are going to move this process forward.

2020 September 9, Rachel McDevitt, quoting Steve Santarsiero, “Bill to keep Pa. out of regional cap-and-trade program passes, but faces governor’s veto”, in WHYY:


epicureanly

epicureanly (comparative more epicureanly, superlative most epicureanly)

more epicureanly (comparative)
most epicureanly (superlative)


exceptively

As to the first item, there is an objection that sometimes it is understood exceptively.

2021, Peter of Spain, L. M. de Rijk, Syncategoreumata (page 353)


uncalculably

uncalculably (comparative more uncalculably, superlative most uncalculably)

more uncalculably (comparative)
most uncalculably (superlative)


unrideably

unrideably (comparative more unrideably, superlative most unrideably)

more unrideably (comparative)
most unrideably (superlative)


unorthodoxically

unorthodoxically (comparative more unorthodoxically, superlative most unorthodoxically)

more unorthodoxically (comparative)
most unorthodoxically (superlative)


uncompletely

uncompletely (comparative more uncompletely, superlative most uncompletely)

more uncompletely (comparative)
most uncompletely (superlative)


unseductively

unseductively (comparative more unseductively, superlative most unseductively)

more unseductively (comparative)
most unseductively (superlative)


unreductively

unreductively (comparative more unreductively, superlative most unreductively)

more unreductively (comparative)
most unreductively (superlative)


unridably

unridably (comparative more unridably, superlative most unridably)

more unridably (comparative)
most unridably (superlative)


unpracticably

unpracticably (comparative more unpracticably, superlative most unpracticably)

more unpracticably (comparative)
most unpracticably (superlative)


unseparably

unseparably (comparative more unseparably, superlative most unseparably)

more unseparably (comparative)
most unseparably (superlative)


nem diss

Abbreviation of Latin nēmine dissentiente.


obvz

obvz (comparative more obvz, superlative most obvz)

more obvz (comparative)
most obvz (superlative)

(text messaging, Internet slang) Alternative form of obvs (“obviously”)


alacritously

alacritously (comparative more alacritously, superlative most alacritously)

more alacritously (comparative)
most alacritously (superlative)

Wilhelm got up, and alacritously advanced.

1847, anonymous author, chapter VII, in The Mistletoe: A German Tale of Christmas. […], London: Thomas Allman, […], →OCLC, page 129:

Lowering his field-glasses, the King looked hard at his interlocutor for a few seconds, and then, without a word, turned his horse’s head, and cantered off in the direction of Gorze, alacritously followed by his illustrious and numerous Staff.

1883, W[illia]m Beatty-Kingston, “His Third Campaign and Its Results”, in William I., German Emperor and King of Prussia: A Biographical Sketch, London: George Routledge and Sons […]; New York, N.Y.: […], →OCLC, page 61:

Like Achilles, he alacritously chose a short life of fame and in short order developed into a full-blown berserk, complete with contortions (riastrad: eye trick, mouth stretched from ear to ear, hair standing on end as if by static electricity, magic halo [lūan lāith ‘warrior’s moon’] over his head), but also subject to the multiple geis or tabu that shadows the Irish hero.

1987, Jaan Puhvel, “Celtic Myth”, in Comparative Mythology, Baltimore, Md., London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, published 1988 (2nd printing), →ISBN, part II (Traditions), page 185:

Is it really a sign of maturity that our insatiable craving for ever-increasingly explicit "entertainment" takes precedence over the moral health and, dare I say, the spiritual wellbeing, of our society and its citizens? Or that shared values once held as vital to our social cohesion are alacritously abandoned in our relentless pursuit of the next turn-on, or the next "artistic" outrage for outrage's sake?

2003 July 18, Rowan Forster, “Who says it's immature to ban a graphic film?”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, archived from the original on 2020-08-11:


beastfully

beastfully (comparative more beastfully, superlative most beastfully)

more beastfully (comparative)
most beastfully (superlative)

There is no end to this power, except as certain men so beastfully pervert this magical gift that it must be extinguished for the good of all mankind.

1967, Ruth Montgomery, A Search for the Truth, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 165:

(rare) In a beastful manner; in the manner of a wild beast.


amsl

Alternative form: AMSL


craftly

craftly (comparative more craftly, superlative most craftly)

more craftly (comparative)
most craftly (superlative)

From Middle English craflike, craftli, craftliche, craftly, creftly, from Old English cræftlīce; equivalent to craft + -ly.

Now cryſt [i.e., Christ] our comely creature clerer thã cryſtal clene / That craftly made euery creature by good recreacyon / Saue all this company that is gathered here bydene / And ſet all your ſoules in to good ſaluacyon

c. 1500–6, […] [T]he Worlde and the Chylde / otherwyse Called [Mundus ⁊ Infans] […], London: […] wynkyn de worde, published 17 July 1522, →OCLC, signature C.iiij., verso; reproduced in facsimile as The World and the Child otherwise Mundus & Infans (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London, Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […], 1909, →OCLC:

The Pen Becomes a Clarion / When we write about this gracious Hillsborough home. 8 rms. in all, craftly decorated as only large high-ceiling rooms can be, some beautifully beamed.

1959 September 23, Coldwell, Banker & Co., “The Pen Becomes a Clarion”, in San Mateo Times, volume 59, number 228, San Mateo, Calif., page 26, column 6:

Due to considerations of brevity, we mention only a few of these craftly written works.

1981, Marjorie Agosin, “Edla Van Steen, ed., O conto da mulher brasileira. Sao Paulo: Vertente Editora, 1978. 251 p.”, in The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, volume 35, number 1, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, →DOI, →ISSN, page 83:

They also have an aqua-section which is brightly lit with bue^([sic – meaning blue]) lights and is craftly decorated with marine artifacts.

2017 November 5, “Fab 15 – These Are The Best Themed Restaurants In Delhi-NCR”, in India Chronicles, New Delhi, archived from the original on 2024-04-07:

In the quhylkis war nocht, bot bꝛokyn leiffis and few of thaym bꝛaider than the palme of ane mannis hand, wꝛittin craftly on rude and hard parchement.

[[1540?], Hector Boece, translated by Johne Bellenden, “Of Ethodius brothir to Eugenius afore rehersit. Of his gouernance in Denmark and of his successioun. Hovv Rome vvas tane be Gothis, and hovv syndry spulzeis thairof fell to Fergus the secund.”, in […] [T]he Hystory and Croniklis of Scotland (in Scots), Edinburgh: […] Thomas Dauidson, […], →OCLC, seventh book, folios [lxxxii], verso – lxxxiii, recto:

[…] of ſo high a Science they haue made a certaine Logomachie, that is, an vndiſcreate altercation, goinge from ſchole to ſchole, mouinge queſtions, foꝛging opinions, and wꝛong the Scriptures with intricate wooꝛdes geuinge them a contrarie ſence, redier craftly to deceiue, then plainely to trie out the truthe, […]

1569, Henrie [i.e., Heinrich] Cornelius Agrippa, translated by Ja[mes] San[dford], “Of Scholasticall Diuinitie”, in Of the Vanitie and Vncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, London: […] Henry Wykes […], →OCLC, folio 169, recto:

If a man then opened his lips, respecting religion, ten to one, but it cost him both his life and property; and it is an awful fact, that if a Protestant New Testament had been found in a man’s premises, in a Roman Catholic Country, not anything could have saved himself and family from utter ruin. And how much better would our lordly priests treat us if they yet had the use of the sword? which that mighty engine, they so craftly wished to set to work, National Education under their jurisdiction, might have given them. They are determined enemies to any popular system.

1845, James Crozer, A Glimpse of All the Denominations of the Priesthood, […], Newcastle upon Tyne: […] W. B. Leighton, […], →OCLC, page 17:

Beginning with the late, great comedian Ted Healy, Gard drew virtually all of the top ones. He drew them craftly, coldly, violently and he called them “All Gard’s Chillun.” He made many women cry; […]

1953 December 10, Mel Heimer, “My New York”, in The Journal-News, volume 64, number 183, Nyack, N.Y., page eleven, column 3:

(rare; obsolete or nonstandard) Craftily, cunningly.


arsewards

arsewards (comparative more arsewards, superlative most arsewards)

more arsewards (comparative)
most arsewards (superlative)

The frustrations of these early days were considerable, and at times there was the temptation to send a cryptic UPSHOVE JOB ARSEWARDS to London.

1978 May 27, Eoin O'Brien, “Reading For Pleasure”, in The British Medical Journal, number 6124, page 1408a:


arseward

arseward (comparative more arseward, superlative most arseward)

more arseward (comparative)
most arseward (superlative)

From arse + -ward, also already Middle English aisword, arseworde, erseward.


shortterm

shortterm (comparative more shortterm, superlative most shortterm)

more shortterm (comparative)
most shortterm (superlative)


short‐term

short‐term (comparative more short‐term, superlative most short‐term)

more short‐term (comparative)
most short‐term (superlative)


n'all

(informal or dialectal) Alternative form of and all


precisionally

precisionally (comparative more precisionally, superlative most precisionally)

more precisionally (comparative)
most precisionally (superlative)

Maps should be at high resolution (e.g. village level or 5 × 5 km) and updated annually, which will support the surveillance of the elimination programme precisionally.

2022 May, Men-Bao Qian, Jürg Utzinger, Shi-Zhu Li, Antonio Montresor, Xiao-Nong Zhou, “Towards elimination of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in China”, in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, volume 22, number 100455, →DOI, page 2:

In a precisional manner; using precision.


suggestfully

suggestfully (comparative more suggestfully, superlative most suggestfully)

more suggestfully (comparative)
most suggestfully (superlative)

"You have made a mistake in the way you have gone about things. Now I don't mind giving a little money for services rendered, and if you have come here to tell me what you know about Dr. Links, we'll begin to talk business. […] Now out with the truth and I'll make you glad you came,"—and Burbank jingled suggestfully, the silver pieces in his trousers pocket.

1897, Carrie Goldsmith Childs, Lost Lineage, Floral Park, N.Y.: Mayflower Publishing Co., pages 72–73:

Lucy looked up, "Ya know I'm good at this, don't ya honey. Let me give ya some head." She licked her lips, suggestfully.

2011, Bob Freeman, A.K.A...Jimmy Smith: A Novel of Crime and Romance, Denver, C.O.: Outskirts Press, Inc., page 37:

'Hmmm, I may go down to that cricket club if it is hiding men like that,' said Amelia, running her finger suggestfully around her glass.

2015, Graham J. Wood, Zein: The Prophecy, [New York, N.Y.]: [Clink Street], →ISBN, page 103:


frame one

Those guys were on it frame one.


granosely

granosely (comparative more granosely, superlative most granosely)

more granosely (comparative)
most granosely (superlative)

The base is concave near the circumference, then slightly convex, concentrically granosely ridged.

2021 November 16, Wikipedia contributors, “Chytra kirki”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

Having the form of a string of grains or beads, as the antennæ of some insects or the ridges of some conch shells.