everywheres

I can see it all: beautiful rolling country with woods and fields and lakes for hundreds and hundreds of miles all around, and towns and villages scattered everywheres under us, here and there and yonder; and the professor mooning over a chart on his little table, and Tom's cap flopping in the rigging where it was hung up to dry.

1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Tom Sawyer Abroad:

People'll flock from everywheres to see you, and you'll make your sugar and cheese and things fairly hum.

'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

You get scared, sittin' home, waitin', and they're in France and everywheres, learnin' French and everything, and meetin' grand people and havin' a fuss made over 'em.


unfriendlily

en-adv

unfriendlily (comparative more unfriendlily, superlative most unfriendlily)

more unfriendlily (comparative)
most unfriendlily (superlative)


worse comes to worst

worst comes to worst
worst comes to worst#English

Alternative form of worst comes to worst


goshawfully

goshawfully (comparative more goshawfully, superlative most goshawfully)

more goshawfully (comparative)
most goshawfully (superlative)

The media, print as well as electronic, are so goshawfully deficient in the fundamentals of the subject that David Beckham's picture with an Adidas logo has been sought to be presented as an example of Fifa's liberal outlook […]

2002, Festival, Statesman Limited, page 125:

(euphemistic, rare) In a manner that is goshawful.


extatically

extatically (comparative more extatically, superlative most extatically)

more extatically (comparative)
most extatically (superlative)


en plein air

(painting) in the open air, alfresco, outside, outdoors


extreamly

extreamly (comparative more extreamly, superlative most extreamly)

more extreamly (comparative)
most extreamly (superlative)


compleatly

compleatly (comparative more compleatly, superlative most compleatly)

more compleatly (comparative)
most compleatly (superlative)


incompleatly

incompleatly (comparative more incompleatly, superlative most incompleatly)

more incompleatly (comparative)
most incompleatly (superlative)

there are many other things in Christian Religion that are incompleatly reveal'd

1697, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, page 79:


thruly

thruly (comparative more thruly, superlative most thruly)

more thruly (comparative)
most thruly (superlative)

(American spelling) Nonstandard spelling of throughly.


'specially

'specially (comparative more 'specially, superlative most 'specially)

more 'specially (comparative)
most 'specially (superlative)

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


discriminately

discriminately (comparative more discriminately, superlative most discriminately)

more discriminately (comparative)
most discriminately (superlative)


dreadly

dreadly (comparative more dreadly, superlative most dreadly)

more dreadly (comparative)
most dreadly (superlative)

From Middle English dredly, dredliche, equivalent to dread + -ly.

1641, Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes And Workes, translated by Josuah Sylvester, London: Robert Young, "The Captains. The Fourth Part of the Third Day of the II. Week," p. 181 https://books.google.ca/books?id=pcAFFu1rUqIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
So shall you see a Cloud-crown'd Hill somtime, / Torn from a greater by the waste of Time; / Dreadly to shake, and boundling down to hop, / And roaring, here it roules tall Cedars up;

[…] when high in Air / The chos'n Archangel rides, whose right hand weilds / Th'imperial standard of heav'n's providence, / Which dreadly sweeping thro' the vaulted sky / O'ershadows all creation.

1752, William Mason, Elfrida: A Dramatic Poem, London: John Knapton, published 1757, page 54:

His vast countenance was unutterably and dreadly calm;

1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter IV, in Asmodeus At Large, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page 81:

Dreadly, in sooth, dreadly doth the wise augur move me, who approve not, nor am able to deny.

1883, Sophocles, “Oedipus the King”, in R. C. Jebb, transl., Sophocles: the Plays and Fragments, Cambridge University Press, Part I, p. 103:

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn / Down valleys dreadly desolate;

1907, Robert W. Service, “The Land God Forgot”, in Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, New York: Barse & Hopkins, page 9:

He had turned dreadly pale.

1934, George Orwell, chapter 17, in Burmese Days:


xylophonically

A fox trot idyl of the Orient, xylophonically told and played in excellent tempo.

[…] while the dishes on the bed tray clinked xylophonically against one another.

2001, Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye:

Alf re-lays them two by two, first levelling their sandy beds, and I listen to them chinking xylophonically as he locks them into each other.

2007, Ronald Blythe, Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford, page 16:


now and again

I still go swimming now and again, but not as often as when I was a child.

(idiomatic) Synonym of occasionally, now and then, sometimes, intermittently.


effrontuously

effrontuously (comparative more effrontuously, superlative most effrontuously)

more effrontuously (comparative)
most effrontuously (superlative)

All these loads of the death of King Charles II. the managing in order to the coronation, and the parliament, and sitting there to hear his decrees most brutishly and effrontuously arraigned, which he must defend with all the criticism and reason, as well as temper, that he could, by stress of thought, muster.

a. 1734, Roger North, The lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper Of The Great Seal, Under King Charles II. And King James II:


slopingly

slopingly (comparative more slopingly, superlative most slopingly)

more slopingly (comparative)
most slopingly (superlative)


untruely

untruely (comparative more untruely, superlative most untruely)

more untruely (comparative)
most untruely (superlative)


frolickingly

frolickingly (comparative more frolickingly, superlative most frolickingly)

more frolickingly (comparative)
most frolickingly (superlative)


magickly

magickly (comparative more magickly, superlative most magickly)

more magickly (comparative)
most magickly (superlative)


tumultuarily

tumultuarily (comparative more tumultuarily, superlative most tumultuarily)

more tumultuarily (comparative)
most tumultuarily (superlative)


panickingly

panickingly (comparative more panickingly, superlative most panickingly)

more panickingly (comparative)
most panickingly (superlative)


traitourly

traitourly (comparative more traitourly, superlative most traitourly)

more traitourly (comparative)
most traitourly (superlative)


stealingly

if they were divers motions, they did so stealingly slip one into another as the latter part was ever in hand before the eye could discern the former was ended.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

By stealing; furtively or with invisible motion.


sacerdotally

sacerdotally (comparative more sacerdotally, superlative most sacerdotally)

more sacerdotally (comparative)
most sacerdotally (superlative)

1720, Samuel Parker, Biblioteca Biblica, Oxford: William and John Innys, Volume I, Part 2, Occasional Annotation 30, “The Pillar of Jacob,” p. 608,
[…] first he Blessed the Place Sacerdotally, setting it apart by Solemn Rites for a Place of Divine Worship […]

Some ladies went a dozen times in the day to hear mass, but paid little attention to what was going on sacerdotally.

1883 September 29, “Some Things of Old Spain”, in All the Year Round, volume 32, number 774, page 369:

Pickerbaugh assigned to them the chief booth, on the platform once sacerdotally occupied by the Reverend Mr. Sunday.

1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 23, in Arrowsmith, New York: Harcourt, Brace, published 1945, page 259:

Here I saw for the first time, in any number to speak of, the Mission-boys, the converted Natives, half sacerdotally attired, whatever office they might be filling […]

1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, London: Putnam, published 1948, Part 5, Chapter 2:

In a sacerdotal manner, in the manner of a priest.


tributarily

tributarily (comparative more tributarily, superlative most tributarily)

more tributarily (comparative)
most tributarily (superlative)


lifely

lifely (comparative more lifely, superlative most lifely)

more lifely (comparative)
most lifely (superlative)

Unslain fro thee, which ay us lifely herteth, With books of his ornat enditing That is to all this land enlumining.

1826, George Lewis Smyth, The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey:


instigatingly

instigatingly (comparative more instigatingly, superlative most instigatingly)

more instigatingly (comparative)
most instigatingly (superlative)

So as to instigate or incite; temptingly.


fremedly

fremedly (comparative more fremedly, superlative most fremedly)

more fremedly (comparative)
most fremedly (superlative)

From Middle English fremedly, equivalent to fremed, fremd + -ly.


dolourously

dolourously (comparative more dolourously, superlative most dolourously)

more dolourously (comparative)
most dolourously (superlative)


anteriourly

anteriourly (comparative more anteriourly, superlative most anteriourly)

more anteriourly (comparative)
most anteriourly (superlative)


posteriourly

posteriourly (comparative more posteriourly, superlative most posteriourly)

more posteriourly (comparative)
most posteriourly (superlative)


unhumourously

unhumourously (comparative more unhumourously, superlative most unhumourously)

more unhumourously (comparative)
most unhumourously (superlative)


unhumorously

unhumorously (comparative more unhumorously, superlative most unhumorously)

more unhumorously (comparative)
most unhumorously (superlative)


disfavourably

disfavourably (comparative more disfavourably, superlative most disfavourably)

more disfavourably (comparative)
most disfavourably (superlative)


colouristically

colouristically (comparative more colouristically, superlative most colouristically)

more colouristically (comparative)
most colouristically (superlative)


unglamourously

unglamourously (comparative more unglamourously, superlative most unglamourously)

more unglamourously (comparative)
most unglamourously (superlative)


muchwhat

. . . muchwhat after the same manner as in the first imaginant.

1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 24, in Scepsis Scientifica:

If we will disbelieve every thing, because we cannot know all things, we shall do muchwhat as wisely as he who would not use his legs because he had no wings to fly.

1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Introduction”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:

But the braggart boaster cried that an old Nobodaddy was in his cups it was muchwhat indifferent and he would not lag behind his lead.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:


colourably

colourably (comparative more colourably, superlative most colourably)

more colourably (comparative)
most colourably (superlative)

Afterwards it was thought so Sacramentall, that no adultery or desertion could dissolve it; and this is the sense of our Canon Courts in England to this day, but in no other reformed Church els: yet there remains in them also a burden on it as heavie as the other two were disgracefull or superstitious, and of as much iniquity, crossing a Law not onely writt’n by Moses, but character’d in us by nature, of more antiquity and deeper ground then marriage it selfe; which Law is to force nothing against the faultles proprieties of nature: yet that this may be colourably done, our Saviours words touching divorce, are as it were congeal’d into a stony rigor, inconsistent both with his doctrine and his office; and that which he preacht onely to the conscience, is by Canonicall tyranny snatcht into the compulsive censure of a judiciall Court; where Laws are impos’d even against the venerable and secret power of natures impression, to love what ever cause be found to loath.

1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:


timourously

timourously (comparative more timourously, superlative most timourously)

more timourously (comparative)
most timourously (superlative)


rancourously

rancourously (comparative more rancourously, superlative most rancourously)

more rancourously (comparative)
most rancourously (superlative)


traitourously

traitourously (comparative more traitourously, superlative most traitourously)

more traitourously (comparative)
most traitourously (superlative)


savourously

savourously (comparative more savourously, superlative most savourously)

more savourously (comparative)
most savourously (superlative)


savorously

savorously (comparative more savorously, superlative most savorously)

more savorously (comparative)
most savorously (superlative)


astay

(nautical) Of an anchor, such that in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.


savorily

savorily (comparative more savorily, superlative most savorily)

more savorily (comparative)
most savorily (superlative)

(American spelling) Alternative form of savourily


savourily

savourily (comparative more savourily, superlative most savourily)

more savourily (comparative)
most savourily (superlative)

In a savory manner; with a pleasing relish.

With gusto or appetite; heartily; with relish.


thankly

thankly (comparative more thankly, superlative most thankly)

more thankly (comparative)
most thankly (superlative)

He giveth frankly what we thankly spend

1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:


conflictedly

conflictedly (comparative more conflictedly, superlative most conflictedly)

more conflictedly (comparative)
most conflictedly (superlative)


appellatively

Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

(grammar) After the manner of appellative nouns; so as to express whole classes or species.


not while pussy's a cat

not while pussy's a cat (not comparable)


creepingly

creepingly (comparative more creepingly, superlative most creepingly)

more creepingly (comparative)
most creepingly (superlative)

a. 1712, Robert South, sermon
How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents.

By creeping, moving stealthily and slowly; insidiously; cunningly.


droppingly

The birds sang and brake off again
To shake their pretty feathers dry
Of the dew sliding droppingly
From the leaf-edges

1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

our prayers come but droppingly from vs afterward in the ebbe of our affections

1614, Daniel Dyke, The Mystery of Selfe-Deceiuing:


rescriptively

February 11 1780, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on œconomical reform
the crown has (where they are not granted or rescriptively held) the dominion of the soil


expressis verbis

From Latin expressis verbis (“pronounced with words”).


comptly

comptly (comparative more comptly, superlative most comptly)

more comptly (comparative)
most comptly (superlative)

[…]wilfully and comptly commit[…]

1581, An Abstract of all the penal Statutes ... Collected by Fardinando Pulton, etc. B.L., England, page 227:


metallicly

metallicly (comparative more metallicly, superlative most metallicly)

more metallicly (comparative)
most metallicly (superlative)

metallicly conducting crystals


humblingly

humblingly (comparative more humblingly, superlative most humblingly)

more humblingly (comparative)
most humblingly (superlative)


inflammably

inflammably (comparative more inflammably, superlative most inflammably)

more inflammably (comparative)
most inflammably (superlative)


sovereignly

sovereignly (comparative more sovereignly, superlative most sovereignly)

more sovereignly (comparative)
most sovereignly (superlative)

From Middle English sovereynly, sovereynliche, soveraynliche, equivalent to sovereign + -ly.

They are sovereignly unjust, for all the parties are human beings with the same essential interests, and no one of them is the wholly perverse demon which another often imagines him to be.

1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe:

There is something almost magical at first sight in the transformation which the Australian colonies have undergone in a very limited space of time; yet it is but the natural result of the untrammelled energy of a race sovereignly fitted to "subdue the earth."

1897, Anne E. Keeling, Great Britain and Her Queen:

Yet here was this girl, who called him up to the heights of young life again: and a brave girl; and she bled for the weak, had no shrinking from the women underfoot: for the reason, that she was a girl sovereignly pure, angelically tender.

1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete:

All his glorious plays would not be worth (bookseller's value) some scraps of thought and feeling, or mere personal detail, or even commonplace (he must have been sovereignly commonplace) impartment of theatrical business news and gossip to his fellow-players, or Scotch Drummond, or my Lord Southampton, or the Dark Woman of the sonnets.

1880, Frances Ann Kemble, Records of a Girlhood:

To speak truly, it has but one declaration to make: to proclaim anew the constitutional law, by virtue of which each State sovereignly decides its own affairs, and consequently excludes all interference of Congress in the matter of slavery.

1862, Count Agr de Gasparin, The Uprising of a Great People:

CAMILLO. Sir, my lord, I could do this; and that with no rash potion, But with a ling'ring dram, that should not work Maliciously like poison: but I cannot Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress, So sovereignly being honourable.

1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:

(archaic) To the highest degree; wholly; utterly


atself

"Ach sure, there's no harm in the one drink atself, but wasn't Mrs. Farrell telling us Father had an extra twelve last night after his tay?"

(UK dialectal, Ireland) Actually; really.

(UK dialectal, Ireland) Merely; even; only so much as.


globosely

globosely (comparative more globosely, superlative most globosely)

more globosely (comparative)
most globosely (superlative)


lipotropically

lipotropically (comparative more lipotropically, superlative most lipotropically)

more lipotropically (comparative)
most lipotropically (superlative)


inofficially

inofficially (comparative more inofficially, superlative most inofficially)

more inofficially (comparative)
most inofficially (superlative)


somewhence

... so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading ... somewhence to somewhither.

1897, William Morris, “Chapter IV. Of the Slaying of Friend and Foe”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005, page 157:

For all beautiful things, no matter how fanciful, are somehow, somewhen, somewhence, true; and all true things, no matter how repellent, are somehow, somewhen, somewhence, beautiful.

1910, “Volume 50”, in Good Housekeeping Magazine, Indiana University, published 2008, page 157:

The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither.

1922, Katherine (Fullerton) Gerould, Lost Valley, a Novel, Harper, Pennsylvania State University, published 2010, page 437:


pendently

pendently (comparative more pendently, superlative most pendently)

more pendently (comparative)
most pendently (superlative)


sure as eggs

A shortened form of sure as eggs is eggs.

"Pity for you though, all the same, you could have tried your luck there — she'll open her legs for grammar-school boys, sure as eggs."
 "But if she's not much to look at anyway," I said […]

(simile, colloquial) surely; doubtlessly


demissly

demissly (comparative more demissly, superlative most demissly)

more demissly (comparative)
most demissly (superlative)

Zamil spoke demissly, he seemed not made to command; but this is the mildness of the natural Arab sheykhs.

1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:


purely and simply

purely and simply (comparative more purely and simply, superlative most purely and simply)

more purely and simply (comparative)
most purely and simply (superlative)


rejuvenatingly

rejuvenatingly (comparative more rejuvenatingly, superlative most rejuvenatingly)

more rejuvenatingly (comparative)
most rejuvenatingly (superlative)

The music was rejuvenatingly catchy, and even some of the older people started dancing.


well and truly

Many people remained in their hiding places until the war was well and truly over.

[T]he ſaid intended marriage to be had, and, by God's bleſſing, to be well and truly ſolemnized and conſummated between the ſaid Walter Shandy and Elizabeth Mollineux aforeſaid, […]

1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, pages 82–83:

Now then, gentlemen, I beg you to weigh well in your minds; conſider ſeriously—for what are you called here this day?—Conſider, I beg of you;—what have you now ſworn to perform?—You have ſolemnly ſworn, that "you will well and truly try the iſſue between the parties." You have ſworn to try it: well and truly to try it. Now, pray, what is the iſſue? Mr. Fox aſſerts that I owe him about 200 l., which I deny. Now the queſtion between us is, whether debt or not. That is the iſſue which you have ſworn to try; to try it well; and truly to try it.

1792 September, O. [pseudonym], “Art. XIII. Proceedings in an Action for Debt, between the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, Plaintiff, and John Horne Tooke, Defendant. Published by the Defendant. 85 Pa. Pr. 25. Johnson. 1792. [book review]”, in The Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign. […], volume XIV, number 1, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 54:

(idiomatic) Completely; utterly; without doubt.

todellakin

completely; utterly; without doubt — see also completely


undignifiedly

undignifiedly (comparative more undignifiedly, superlative most undignifiedly)

more undignifiedly (comparative)
most undignifiedly (superlative)

In an undignified manner; without dignity.


unrestingly

unrestingly (comparative more unrestingly, superlative most unrestingly)

more unrestingly (comparative)
most unrestingly (superlative)


persistingly

persistingly (comparative more persistingly, superlative most persistingly)

more persistingly (comparative)
most persistingly (superlative)


repellingly

repellingly (comparative more repellingly, superlative most repellingly)

more repellingly (comparative)
most repellingly (superlative)


prowlingly

prowlingly (comparative more prowlingly, superlative most prowlingly)

more prowlingly (comparative)
most prowlingly (superlative)

He rose and began to pace, prowlingly, about the room.


transcendingly

transcendingly (comparative more transcendingly, superlative most transcendingly)

more transcendingly (comparative)
most transcendingly (superlative)


retrogressively

retrogressively (comparative more retrogressively, superlative most retrogressively)

more retrogressively (comparative)
most retrogressively (superlative)

retrogressively altered pyrope


hypochondriacally

hypochondriacally (comparative more hypochondriacally, superlative most hypochondriacally)

more hypochondriacally (comparative)
most hypochondriacally (superlative)


farantly

farantly (comparative more farantly, superlative most farantly)

more farantly (comparative)
most farantly (superlative)

I remember hearing my mother say that her cousin, John Fell, married a young body fro' Egremont; and she had no way o' her ain, and never got into theirs, so there was nothing done farantly.

The lancinations maugre all my epulotic appliances sphacelated — interrosseal and cervical inturgescence induced angina, followed by lethality; I contumulated him farantly in a litten .

1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 38:

But the Bishop, that courteous man of God, saluted the young man, right farantly […]

1924, G. B. Stuart, “The Deacon's Window”, in The English Review, volume 39, page 717:


thoroly

thoroly (comparative more thoroly, superlative most thoroly)

more thoroly (comparative)
most thoroly (superlative)

Proposed as a phonetic spelling of thoroughly in 1898 by the American National Education Association.

It was also necessary to free the glass surfaces very much more thoroly from gas than had been thought necessary previously.

1915, Irving Langmuir, “The Pure Electron Discharge and Its Applications in Radio Telegraphy and Telephony”, in Alfred N. Goldsmith, editor, Proceedings of the IRE, volume 3, number 3, The Institute of Radio Engineers, published 1915, page 269:

But there are now not a few well-to-do, well-known and influential men and women who thoroly believe that teaching the poor ...

1916, William J. Robinson, MD, Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring, Reprint edition, Wildside Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 150:

Thoroly disgusted by now, he straightened up one night, tube in hand, his eye searching the particular spot on the wall where it would give the greatest satisfaction to shatter the offending bulb.

1920 May 5, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 78, column 2:

We can scarcely expect that each of our five hundred assistants should be thoroly imbued with the spirit of helpfulness toward the schools or even that they should perfectly understand what we desire and aim to do.

1920, Arthur E. Bostwick, PhD, Librarian's Open Shelf Essays on Various Subjects, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2004:

Swedish and German Ellan and I can easily teah you (if you care to learn them), which would set you up thoroly on the language side. Music I will develop you in thoroly, if you care to work with me.

1983, Robert Simon, Percy Grainger: The Pictorial Biography, GIA Publications, →ISBN:

Kenneth Helrich (1990) Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists: “Mix thoroly, shake occasionally during 10 min. and filter thru dry folded paper, discarding first few mL filtrate. [Note the use of "thru," another phonetic spelling proposed by the American National Education Association.]”

It is, therefore, of extreme importance to clean the vegetables thoroly …

2003, NW Walker, Raw Vegetable Juices: What's Missing in Your Body, Health Research Books, →ISBN, page 68:

(rare) Alternative spelling of thoroughly


besottingly

besottingly (comparative more besottingly, superlative most besottingly)

more besottingly (comparative)
most besottingly (superlative)


smudgily

smudgily (comparative more smudgily, superlative most smudgily)

more smudgily (comparative)
most smudgily (superlative)


concessively

concessively (comparative more concessively, superlative most concessively)

more concessively (comparative)
most concessively (superlative)


somedeal

From Middle English somdel, sumdel (“somewhat, to an extent, in some measure; part, portion, a bit, small amount; in ~ this instance, this case”), equivalent to some + deal.

In Ethiopia all the rivers and all the waters be trouble, and they be somedeal salt for the great heat that is there.

1964, John Mandeville (original), Travels of John Mandeville (edited version)

Curfew Street, and though we know he was somedeal hurt in that matter, we cannot see why he should not do homage in leal and duteous sort.

1828, The Fair Maid of Perth, Large Print edition, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 270:

but it's a godsend at times for a lone woman when she's ugly enough to turn cream sour, and somedeal crooked o' the body into the bargain.

1917, George W. Gough, “Chapter V, the Ancient hHgh House”, in Julian Hawthorne, editor, The Yeoman Adventurer, Reprint edition, Echo Library, published 2005, →ISBN, page 27:

(obsolete or dialect) In some measure or degree; somewhat, partly, partially


preedy

preedy (comparative more preedy, superlative most preedy)

more preedy (comparative)
most preedy (superlative)


Americanistically

Americanistically (comparative more Americanistically, superlative most Americanistically)

more Americanistically (comparative)
most Americanistically (superlative)

So the phenomenon of idolatry that she inspired in the gentle sex in the United States corresponded hyperbolically, that is, Americanistically, to that which more or less occurred in all other countries.

1930, Theatre Guild, Stage: Volume 8, page 18:

Now after many years, with the help of notes and some of my early papers, I am endeavoring to reconstruct what happened at this stage of my contact with Americanistically-oriented ethnobotany.

This reference work, sociologically and Americanistically oriented, does not altogether neglect women.

1981, Jacob Rader Marcus, The American Jewish woman, 1654-1980, page 193:

Gates has rightly likened gumbo to the ancient Roman satura lanx, the 'full plate' of mixed edibles, sweet or sour, ie forced meat, farce-meat, stuffing, sausage-meat — what Americanistically Gates calls 'hash' - which is one etymological root of satire, and which traditionally helps define the rich mix of that genre of writing.

2002, Valentine Cunningham, Reading After Theory, page 25:

In an American manner; in the manner of or relating to America or Americans.


reverendly

reverendly (comparative more reverendly, superlative most reverendly)

more reverendly (comparative)
most reverendly (superlative)

they abstaine reverendly

1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:


sinistrally

sinistrally (comparative more sinistrally, superlative most sinistrally)

more sinistrally (comparative)
most sinistrally (superlative)

rotate it on its axis inward, i.e., sinistrally for the right eye and dextrally for the left

1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision:


inexhaustedly

inexhaustedly (comparative more inexhaustedly, superlative most inexhaustedly)

more inexhaustedly (comparative)
most inexhaustedly (superlative)


f'rinstance

(conjunctive) Pronunciation spelling of for instance.


houseward

Peter moved reluctantly houseward, and Suzanna ended: "Isn't it fine that today was teachers' meeting so we could have a holiday?"

1915, Emily Calvin Blake, Suzanna Stirs the Fire:

Aright unto Hygelac was Beowulf's speeding made knowen full swiftly, That there into the house-place that hedge of the warriors, His mate of the linden-board, living was come, Hale from the battle-play home to him houseward.

1904, William Morris, A. J. Wyatt, The Tale of Beowulf:

The clamor of rushing steeds in the lane suddenly drowned this; a loud, joyous whinny sounded in the very kitchen it seemed, and there was a rush houseward past the pantry as of a troop of cavalry.

1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:


explodingly

explodingly (comparative more explodingly, superlative most explodingly)

more explodingly (comparative)
most explodingly (superlative)

(sometimes figurative) So as to cause an explosion; explosively.


correspondently

correspondently (comparative more correspondently, superlative most correspondently)

more correspondently (comparative)
most correspondently (superlative)


drivellingly

drivellingly (comparative more drivellingly, superlative most drivellingly)

more drivellingly (comparative)
most drivellingly (superlative)

He also speculated drivellingly that the jury might yet return an open verdict on the theory of evolution.

2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 233:

In a drivelling manner; idiotically, foolishly.


renownedly

renownedly (comparative more renownedly, superlative most renownedly)

more renownedly (comparative)
most renownedly (superlative)

He was renownedly, even recklessly, brave, winning for himself the nickname "Mad Jack."


stedfastly

stedfastly (comparative more stedfastly, superlative most stedfastly)

more stedfastly (comparative)
most stedfastly (superlative)

“He told Washington "that the Indians kept stedfastly attached to our interest.”

1754 April 22, Edward Ward, quotee, David A.Clary, George Washington's First War, Simon & Schuster, published 2011, →ISBN, page 77:

… and having clearly perceived his duty, he has pursued it stedfastly in spite of opposition or adverse criticism.

1905, Booker T. Washington, “A Man About Whom the World Should Know”, in Independent:


compunctiously

compunctiously (comparative more compunctiously, superlative most compunctiously)

more compunctiously (comparative)
most compunctiously (superlative)


trivializingly

trivializingly (comparative more trivializingly, superlative most trivializingly)

more trivializingly (comparative)
most trivializingly (superlative)

Naturalists, often trivializingly dubbed “botanists,” hunted, fished, shot, trapped, caught, cut, or uprooted any species on mere suspicion of its being unknown.

2008, Regine I. Heberlein, Writing a national colony, page 104:


scrimpingly

scrimpingly (comparative more scrimpingly, superlative most scrimpingly)

more scrimpingly (comparative)
most scrimpingly (superlative)


inauthentically

inauthentically (comparative more inauthentically, superlative most inauthentically)

more inauthentically (comparative)
most inauthentically (superlative)


unauspiciously

unauspiciously (comparative more unauspiciously, superlative most unauspiciously)

more unauspiciously (comparative)
most unauspiciously (superlative)


thwartly

thwartly (comparative more thwartly, superlative most thwartly)

more thwartly (comparative)
most thwartly (superlative)

From Middle English thwertli, twhertly, equivalent to thwart + -ly.


tonguely

From tongue + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives and nouns).

suffix

How can such a head not tempt him tonguely? And so he tastes it; […]

2006, Shawn Postoff, “Sir Richard Wadd, Pornographer”, in Sky Gilbert, editor, Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays, Toronto, Ont.: Playwrights Canada Press, →ISBN, page 132:

"How's it going Harold?", gravelled masculinely from a few tables away. "Yeah, not bad mate", as my rested pen raises brows that in turn tonguely prime lips for conversing.

2011, Eddie Horton, Just Compass, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 173:

(nonstandard, rare) In terms of or with the tongue; lingually.


raveningly

en-adv

raveningly (comparative more raveningly, superlative most raveningly)

more raveningly (comparative)
most raveningly (superlative)


pausingly

pausingly (comparative more pausingly, superlative most pausingly)

more pausingly (comparative)
most pausingly (superlative)

This pausingly ensu'de

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:


heapmeal

heapmeal (comparative more heapmeal, superlative most heapmeal)

more heapmeal (comparative)
most heapmeal (superlative)

From Middle English *hepemele, from Old English hēapmǣlum (“in heaps, heapmeal”), equivalent to heap + -meal.

inh

There was then no delay, so that greater hosts came heap-meal from the nations which we mentioned before ; and the folk which came hither began to wax and spread so much that they were a great terror to the same inhabitants of the land …

1902, Old South Church (Boston, Mass.), Old South leaflets

Long dures, mongst the forefighters, of both parts, Dread strife, before the wall, for Tola's corse. Almains and Rhaetians, heapmeal, fall thereon, Till the day's end; [...]

1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain:

Men gaze on Caradoc's helm, of lucid steel, Whose crest that dragon of his royal house; And golden belt of strength, and tremble Romans: And the king's glaive, which heapmeal hath slain soldiers.

1939, Martin Gilkes, Tribute to England: an anthology:

(rare, largely obsolete) In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers.


ecoculturally

en-adv

ecoculturally (comparative more ecoculturally, superlative most ecoculturally)

more ecoculturally (comparative)
most ecoculturally (superlative)


breakly

breakly (comparative more breakly, superlative most breakly)

more breakly (comparative)
most breakly (superlative)

From breakle + -y and/or break + -ly. Compare German zerbrechlich (“fragile”).

Surface longitudinal breakly furrowed, slight lustrous, orange-brown.

2007, Vít Bojňanský, Agáta Fargašová, Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora:


inconnexedly

inconnexedly (comparative more inconnexedly, superlative most inconnexedly)

more inconnexedly (comparative)
most inconnexedly (superlative)

casually or inconnexedly succeeded

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

In Jussieu's system the genus makes a part of the oder Cucurbitaceæ or Gourd-tribe: an order of which the genera, from imperfect definition and inconnexedly assorted species, are almost useless, and their revision by a competent botanist an urgent want in the science.

1815, Sydenham Teast Edwards, The Botanical Register:

(obsolete, nonce word) Without connection; unconnectedly.


withdrawingly

withdrawingly (comparative more withdrawingly, superlative most withdrawingly)

more withdrawingly (comparative)
most withdrawingly (superlative)

In a withdrawing manner; with shyness or reserve.


decretorily

decretorily (comparative more decretorily, superlative most decretorily)

more decretorily (comparative)
most decretorily (superlative)

In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.


naughtly

naughtly (comparative more naughtly, superlative most naughtly)

more naughtly (comparative)
most naughtly (superlative)

Because my parents naughtly brought me up.

c. 1658, Thomas Phaer, "Owen Glendour", The Mirror for Magistrates, reprinted in Shorter English Poems, Volume 1 of Cassell's library of English literature, Henry Morley (editor), 1876, page 180


overflush

overflush (comparative more overflush, superlative most overflush)

more overflush (comparative)
most overflush (superlative)

The last two to three layers or 14 in. of the groove is filled up slightly overflush using 316-in. hard rod.

1960, Iron and Steel Engineer - Volume 37, page 70:

Minor imperfections (such as gasket frets and corrosion on the edges of water jacket holes,) should be brazed slightly overflush before the head is milled.

2007, Paul Dempsey, Troubleshooting and Repair of Diesel Engines, page 161:

Beyond the level that is flush and smooth.


decussatively

And if it were clearly made out what is remarkably delivered from the Traditions of the Rabbins, that as the Oyle was powred coronally or circularly upon the head of Kings, so the High-Priest was anointed decussatively or in the form of a X […]

1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:

(obsolete) crosswise; in the form of an X


cholericly

cholericly (comparative more cholericly, superlative most cholericly)

more cholericly (comparative)
most cholericly (superlative)


delayingly

delayingly (comparative more delayingly, superlative most delayingly)

more delayingly (comparative)
most delayingly (superlative)

And Annie could have wept for pity of him;
And yet she held him on delayingly
With many a scarce-believable excuse,
Trying his truth and his long-sufferance,
Till half-another year had slipt away.

1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden:

The mother glanced round at the bed, and said, glad to occupy herself delayingly with the minor care: “Why, you have been sitting up all night! You will kill yourself.”

1885, William Dean Howells, chapter VII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:

He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:


deploredly

deploredly (comparative more deploredly, superlative most deploredly)

more deploredly (comparative)
most deploredly (superlative)


nittily

nittily (comparative more nittily, superlative most nittily)

more nittily (comparative)
most nittily (superlative)

hee was a man nittily needy and therefore aduentrous, esteemed, but an idel fellow

a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:


solitudinously

solitudinously (comparative more solitudinously, superlative most solitudinously)

more solitudinously (comparative)
most solitudinously (superlative)

May 3, 1874, Henry James, letter to William Dean Howells
If you know how dismally and solitudinously I sit here just now before my window, ignorant of a friendly voice […]


digestedly

digestedly (comparative more digestedly, superlative most digestedly)

more digestedly (comparative)
most digestedly (superlative)

In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.


astoop

astoop (comparative more astoop, superlative most astoop)

more astoop (comparative)
most astoop (superlative)

my darling wine astoop

1720, John Gay, “An Answer to the Sompner's Prologue of Chaucer”, in Poems on Several Occasions:


either way

Just buy it or don't buy it. Either way, we have to get going.

I'm not sure if I can make it to the party. Either way, I'll let you know beforehand.

Regardless of what happens (out of two possible situations).


consubstantially

consubstantially (comparative more consubstantially, superlative most consubstantially)

more consubstantially (comparative)
most consubstantially (superlative)

In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.


continently

continently (comparative more continently, superlative most continently)

more continently (comparative)
most continently (superlative)

In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.


controvertibly

controvertibly (comparative more controvertibly, superlative most controvertibly)

more controvertibly (comparative)
most controvertibly (superlative)


regimentally

They were working regimentally

troops classified regimentally

In, by, or according to a regiment or regiments.


discretively

discretively (comparative more discretively, superlative most discretively)

more discretively (comparative)
most discretively (superlative)


hankeringly

hankeringly (comparative more hankeringly, superlative most hankeringly)

more hankeringly (comparative)
most hankeringly (superlative)

The fair Fitzherbert muses hankeringly.

1904–1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], (please specify |part=1 to 3), London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


levitically

levitically (comparative more levitically, superlative most levitically)

more levitically (comparative)
most levitically (superlative)

levitically unclean

levitically impure

After the manner of the Levites; accordance to Levitic law or customs


pestiferously

pestiferously (comparative more pestiferously, superlative most pestiferously)

more pestiferously (comparative)
most pestiferously (superlative)

After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 24”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:


dorsad

dorsad (comparative more dorsad, superlative most dorsad)

more dorsad (comparative)
most dorsad (superlative)


corporally

corporally (comparative more corporally, superlative most corporally)

more corporally (comparative)
most corporally (superlative)

to be corporally present

although Christ be not corporally in the outward visible signs, yet he is corporally in the persons that duly receive them

a. 1714, John Sharp, a sermon on John vi.53


connaturally

connaturally (comparative more connaturally, superlative most connaturally)

more connaturally (comparative)
most connaturally (superlative)


connately

connately (comparative more connately, superlative most connately)

more connately (comparative)
most connately (superlative)


privatively

ordinary despair in our spiritual: then privatively, depriving us of that which is the mother and soul of our obedience and good works , I mean faith

In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.


dejectly

dejectly (comparative more dejectly, superlative most dejectly)

more dejectly (comparative)
most dejectly (superlative)


prelatically

prelatically (comparative more prelatically, superlative most prelatically)

more prelatically (comparative)
most prelatically (superlative)

a sort of formal outside men prelatically addicted

1851, John Mitford, “Life of Milton”, in The Works of Milton in Verse and Prose:

In a prelatical manner; with reference to prelates.


metallographically

By means of, or in terms of, metallography.


allopathically

allopathically (comparative more allopathically, superlative most allopathically)

more allopathically (comparative)
most allopathically (superlative)


subdermally

an injection given subdermally


provisorily

provisorily (comparative more provisorily, superlative most provisorily)

more provisorily (comparative)
most provisorily (superlative)

to admit a doctrine provisorily

The judgment by which the phænomenon is thus provisorily referred , is called an hypothesis ,a supposition

1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso.


idolizingly

idolizingly (comparative more idolizingly, superlative most idolizingly)

more idolizingly (comparative)
most idolizingly (superlative)


beely

beely (comparative more beely, superlative most beely)

more beely (comparative)
most beely (superlative)

His effort is to come as near 100 percent as is humanly (and beely) possible.


Hellenistically

Hellenistically (comparative more Hellenistically, superlative most Hellenistically)

more Hellenistically (comparative)
most Hellenistically (superlative)

ſo Shakar moſt properly ſignifieth, but is often rendred by the Lxx ἀδικία which therefore may bear the same ſignification Helleniſtically in this place

1646, John Gregory, Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture:

According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect.


frogly

frogly (comparative more frogly, superlative most frogly)

more frogly (comparative)
most frogly (superlative)

Toadly awesome!" "Not toadly," said Michael, laughing. "Gorfman's a frog." "It's frogly awesome," said Charu.

2009, Gail Donovan, In Memory of Gorfman T. Frog:

(humorous, nonce word) In a frog-like manner.


ventro-dorsad

ventro-dorsad (comparative more ventro-dorsad, superlative most ventro-dorsad)

more ventro-dorsad (comparative)
most ventro-dorsad (superlative)

In the emu, the hippocampal formation was found to be divisible into four longitudinal zones, designated, ventro-dorsad, H 1, H 2, H 3, and H 4.

c. 1935, E. Horne Craigie, The Cerebral Hemispheres of the Kiwi and the Emu:


disordinately

disordinately (comparative more disordinately, superlative most disordinately)

more disordinately (comparative)
most disordinately (superlative)

The temporall landes devoutely geven, and disordinatly spent by religious and other spirituall persones.

1550, Edward Hall, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, Beyng Long in Continuall Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme, […], London: […] Rychard Grafton, […] [and Steven Mierdman], →OCLC:


gentilly

gentilly (comparative more gentilly, superlative most gentilly)

more gentilly (comparative)
most gentilly (superlative)

From Middle English gentilly, equivalent to gentle + -ly.

(Early Modern) Obsolete spelling of gently.


aslug

[He] drags on muddy shore his boat, / That comes aslug against the stream.


euphuistically

euphuistically (comparative more euphuistically, superlative most euphuistically)

more euphuistically (comparative)
most euphuistically (superlative)


roundaboutly

roundaboutly (comparative more roundaboutly, superlative most roundaboutly)

more roundaboutly (comparative)
most roundaboutly (superlative)

Now, all of a sudden, he found himself cautious, trying to be a politician, and the result was, he expressed his frustrations roundaboutly instead of directly.


aflat

When you would have many new roots of fruit trees , take a low tree and bow it , and lay all its branches aflat upon the ground , and cast earth upon them

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “V. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) Level with the ground; lying flat.


dextrally

dextrally (comparative more dextrally, superlative most dextrally)

more dextrally (comparative)
most dextrally (superlative)

The hands of a watch rotate dextrally.

rotate it on its axis inward, i.e., sinistrally for the right eye and dextrally for the left

1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision:


truantly

truantly (comparative more truantly, superlative most truantly)

more truantly (comparative)
most truantly (superlative)


spruntly

spruntly (comparative more spruntly, superlative most spruntly)

more spruntly (comparative)
most spruntly (superlative)

How do I look to-day, am I not drest Spruntly? [Looks in her glass]

1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, act 4, scene 1:

(obsolete) In a sprunt manner; youthfully; neatly; becomingly.


pedanticly

pedanticly (comparative more pedanticly, superlative most pedanticly)

more pedanticly (comparative)
most pedanticly (superlative)


stagely

stagely (comparative more stagely, superlative most stagely)

more stagely (comparative)
most stagely (superlative)

He was a priggish old party too, celebrated for walking up to his pupils and for whispering stagely, after a salute with the foil, “This, sir, is not so much a School of Arms as a School of Politeness."

1898, Lady Isabel Burton, William Henry Wilkins, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, page 48:

Miss Sarah Brooke, Mr. Dion Boucicault, and Mr. Laurence Irving play as of the stage, stagely, but are, of course, absolutely sound, firm, and hold the audience with an iron hand.

1906 May 23, ““Raffles" at the Comedy”, in The Bystander, volume 10, number 129, page 368:

Therefore in its elaboration, Drama is a stagely enacted play of the characters created by a cast of […]

1993, Panjab University Research Bulletin: Arts - Volume 24, page 12:

For preparation of complex esters the etherification was carried out stagely (two or three stages)

2008, F.Kh. Aliyeva, “New Types of Synthetic Lubricating Oils on the Base of Esters of Alkenylsuccinic Acids”, in Processes of petrochemistry and oil refining, volume 2, number 34:

In order to get the idea result of processing, the ore must be grinded^([sic]) and concentrated stagely.

2011 October, Xiu Li Han, Chang Cun Li, LN Liu, Ming Yan Yao, Xin Fu Liu, “Research on Technological Mineralogy of Refractory Hematite Ore”, in Applied Mechanics and Materials, volumes 117-119:

With present microsurgical techniques these lesions can be removed stagely and totally.

2015 February 16, Dasara Kodanda Giri Rao, K Babji, “To evaluate resectability and outcome of intra cranial meningiomas: a prospective study (between Nov 2006-Nov 2014)”, in Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences, volume 4, number 14:

(proscribed, nonstandard, used by NNES) In stages;


indeclinably

c. In the older language, the numerals for 5 and upward are sometimes used in the nom.-acc. form (or as if indeclinably) with other cases also: thus, páñca kṛṣṭíṣu among the five races; saptá rṣīṇām of seven bards; sahásram ṛ́ṣibhiḥ with a thousand bards; çatám pūrbhíḥ with a hundred strongholds. Sporadic instances of a like kind are also met with later.

1889, William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar:

(grammar) Without declination (variation of termination in a word).


double-handed

Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage.

2015, Nick Oldham, Edge: A Henry Christie thriller, →ISBN:


propitiatorily

propitiatorily (comparative more propitiatorily, superlative most propitiatorily)

more propitiatorily (comparative)
most propitiatorily (superlative)


pronely

pronely (comparative more pronely, superlative most pronely)

more pronely (comparative)
most pronely (superlative)


neurad

neurad (comparative more neurad, superlative most neurad)

more neurad (comparative)
most neurad (superlative)

(anatomy, archaic) Toward the neural side.


wobblily

wobblily (comparative more wobblily, superlative most wobblily)

more wobblily (comparative)
most wobblily (superlative)


wobblingly

wobblingly (comparative more wobblingly, superlative most wobblingly)

more wobblingly (comparative)
most wobblingly (superlative)


narcotically

narcotically (comparative more narcotically, superlative most narcotically)

more narcotically (comparative)
most narcotically (superlative)


hackishly

hackishly (comparative more hackishly, superlative most hackishly)

more hackishly (comparative)
most hackishly (superlative)

a hackishly-written news article


unprobably

unprobably (comparative more unprobably, superlative most unprobably)

more unprobably (comparative)
most unprobably (superlative)

From un- + Latin probabilis (“approvable”), from probare (“to approve”). Compare probable.

To diminish, by the authority of wise and knowing men, things unjustly and unprobably crept in.

1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. and Queen Mary the First. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] John Wyat, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete, rare) In a manner not to be approved of; improperly.


personalitywise

The fact that this political approach is thought expedient in communist party tactics does not prove that party members personalitywise are intolerant of ambiguities in general.

1970, Christian Bay, The structure of freedom, page 210:

Yet we have not emphasized the clinical appraisal of verbal protocol in this chapter; nor have we emphasized the significance, personalitywise, of the factors yielded by the analysis.

2002, George Kelly, The Psychology of Personal Constructs, volume 1, page 215:


pathogenically

inhibition of pathogenically-related morphologic transition in Candida albicans


psychosomatically

psychosomatically (comparative more psychosomatically, superlative most psychosomatically)

more psychosomatically (comparative)
most psychosomatically (superlative)


septentrionally

if they be powerfully excited, and equally let fall, they commonly sink down and break the water at that extreme whereat they were septentrionally excited

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


incentively

incentively (comparative more incentively, superlative most incentively)

more incentively (comparative)
most incentively (superlative)

Should she kill this magnetic spider, and so end its baleful influence? Incentively the trees hissed 'Yes, yes.' Motioning for them to be silent, she steadily watched the insidious spinner, now as if divining her purpose, merely an indrawn inert black speck but acutely watching her.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 289:


nutly

nutly (comparative more nutly, superlative most nutly)

more nutly (comparative)
most nutly (superlative)

Eagle of silent bingo, groups! Bessarabia! this / Distinctly! apples!" Very nutly they shine / "Beaver" "Clue" "Pylon" "Imp" "Kentucky" and "Biltmore" / But of orange greens, lane violent raspberries.

1969, Kenneth Koch, When the Sun Tries to Go On, page 84:


circumscriptly

circumscriptly (comparative more circumscriptly, superlative most circumscriptly)

more circumscriptly (comparative)
most circumscriptly (superlative)


scholarlike

scholarlike (comparative more scholarlike, superlative most scholarlike)

more scholarlike (comparative)
most scholarlike (superlative)

a. 1627, Francis Bacon, letter to the Earl of Essex
[…] I can spell and scholarlike put together the parts of her majesty's proceedings


bravingly

bravingly (comparative more bravingly, superlative most bravingly)

more bravingly (comparative)
most bravingly (superlative)


praisably

praisably (comparative more praisably, superlative most praisably)

more praisably (comparative)
most praisably (superlative)

You responded to the problem praisably fast!


effectuously

effectuously (comparative more effectuously, superlative most effectuously)

more effectuously (comparative)
most effectuously (superlative)


imperfectively

(grammar) In an imperfective manner or context.


bendly

bendly (comparative bendlier or more bendly, superlative bendliest or most bendly)

bendlier (comparative)
more bendly (comparative)
bendliest (superlative)
most bendly (superlative)

From Middle English bendli, equivalent to bend + -ly.


perfectively

From these two claims I make the following evident argument: God would not have seen anything unless he had possessed those things, but to possess them only perfectively and not in a representational mode would not have sufficed to have cognized them.

2002, Robert Pasnau, Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts:


in antis

(architecture) Between antae; said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building.


hulkingly

hulkingly (comparative more hulkingly, superlative most hulkingly)

more hulkingly (comparative)
most hulkingly (superlative)

The Sergeant stood hulkingly, breathing heavily, by the end of the bed.

1999, Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor:


revolvingly

With revolution; so as to revolve or rotate.


evolvingly

evolvingly (comparative more evolvingly, superlative most evolvingly)

more evolvingly (comparative)
most evolvingly (superlative)

With evolution; so as to evolve or develop.


complimentally

complimentally (comparative more complimentally, superlative most complimentally)

more complimentally (comparative)
most complimentally (superlative)


pertineer

From pretty + near. See Carleton County Colloquialisms.

"She made one leap towards it, but when she touched the pitcher, she drew back in dismay. 'My! It's pertineer boilin'!' she gasped."

1911, Agnes Roma Johnson et al., “Keeping Up Appearances”, in Pacific Short Story Club magazine, volumes 4–6, Pacific Short Story Club, page 23:

"'But my oldest sister was twelve at that time, "pertineer" thirteen and she always seemed like a mother to us.'"

1997, Leonard C. Sly, Worlds of Pain and Joy: Reflections on Working-Class Lives, University of Michigan-Flint:

"Mark answered, 'I've known Ian McCafferty pertineer all his life.'"

2008, Merri Hiatt, Penelope's Passion, MH Books, page 196:


mulierly

mulierly (comparative more mulierly, superlative most mulierly)

more mulierly (comparative)
most mulierly (superlative)

(obsolete) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.


complicately

complicately (comparative more complicately, superlative most complicately)

more complicately (comparative)
most complicately (superlative)

Who first created the great world, a work / Of deep construction, complicately wrought

1790, James Hurdis, (Please provide the book title or journal name):


swinishly

swinishly (comparative more swinishly, superlative most swinishly)

more swinishly (comparative)
most swinishly (superlative)


slubberingly

slubberingly (comparative more slubberingly, superlative most slubberingly)

more slubberingly (comparative)
most slubberingly (superlative)

Afeared of my candle's going out, which makes me write thus slubberingly.

1662 November 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “October 26th, 1662 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:

And slubberingly patch up some slight and shallow Rime

1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 22 p. 23:


spagyrically

spagyrically (comparative more spagyrically, superlative most spagyrically)

more spagyrically (comparative)
most spagyrically (superlative)

If you will have them spagirically prepared, look in Oswaldus Crollius, Basil. Chymica.

In a spagyric way; according to alchemical principles.


percase

From Middle English per cas. See parcase.

[A] vertuous man vvill be vertuous in ſolitudine, and not onely in theatro, though percaſe it vvill bee more ſtrong by glory and Fame, as an heat vvhich is doubled by reflexion: […]

1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC:


struttingly

struttingly (comparative more struttingly, superlative most struttingly)

more struttingly (comparative)
most struttingly (superlative)


discommodiously

discommodiously (comparative more discommodiously, superlative most discommodiously)

more discommodiously (comparative)
most discommodiously (superlative)


criminously

criminously (comparative more criminously, superlative most criminously)

more criminously (comparative)
most criminously (superlative)


incontestibly

incontestibly (comparative more incontestibly, superlative most incontestibly)

more incontestibly (comparative)
most incontestibly (superlative)

It therefore appears to me incontestibly true, that not only Governments did not begin by arbitrary Power, ..., but even that, allowing they had commenced in this manner, such Power ... could never have served as a Foundation to the Rights of Society, nor of course to the Inequality of Institution.

1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 155:


mixedly

mixedly (comparative more mixedly, superlative most mixedly)

more mixedly (comparative)
most mixedly (superlative)

In a mixed way; with mixture or variety.


mixtly

mixtly (comparative more mixtly, superlative most mixtly)

more mixtly (comparative)
most mixtly (superlative)

a commission not to proceed precisely , or merely according to the laws and customs either of England or Scotland , but mixtly

1603, Francis Bacon, A Brief Discourse on the Happy Union of […] England and Scotland:


slaveringly

slaveringly (comparative more slaveringly, superlative most slaveringly)

more slaveringly (comparative)
most slaveringly (superlative)

The half-starved dog leapt slaveringly towards the dish of meat.


disregardfully

disregardfully (comparative more disregardfully, superlative most disregardfully)

more disregardfully (comparative)
most disregardfully (superlative)

In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.


massagingly

massagingly (comparative more massagingly, superlative most massagingly)

more massagingly (comparative)
most massagingly (superlative)

By means of massage; so as to produce a massaging effect.


laterad

laterad (comparative more laterad, superlative most laterad)

more laterad (comparative)
most laterad (superlative)

From Latin latus, lateris (“side”) + ad (“to”).

(anatomy) Toward the side; away from the mesial plane.


manshiply

manshiply (comparative more manshiply, superlative most manshiply)

more manshiply (comparative)
most manshiply (superlative)

From Middle English manshiply (“honorably, faithfully; in a courtly manner”), equivalent to manship + -ly.

inh

1500, English Conquest of Ireland
The Pepil of the londe manshiply hym sholde vp-take.

(obsolete) manly, honorably, faithfully; good qualities of a man; in a courtly, polite manner


by gummy

(euphemistic, dated) By God!: expressing wonderment.


puissantly

en-adv

puissantly (comparative more puissantly, superlative most puissantly)

more puissantly (comparative)
most puissantly (superlative)

In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great strength.


deliverly

deliverly (comparative more deliverly, superlative most deliverly)

more deliverly (comparative)
most deliverly (superlative)

Swim with your bodies, / And carry it sweetly and deliverly.

1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene v:


crusadingly

crusadingly (comparative more crusadingly, superlative most crusadingly)

more crusadingly (comparative)
most crusadingly (superlative)


humorsomely

humorsomely (comparative more humorsomely, superlative most humorsomely)

more humorsomely (comparative)
most humorsomely (superlative)


octagonally

octagonally shaped timber


cognizably

cognizably (comparative more cognizably, superlative most cognizably)

more cognizably (comparative)
most cognizably (superlative)


Darwinianly

Darwinianly (comparative more Darwinianly, superlative most Darwinianly)

more Darwinianly (comparative)
most Darwinianly (superlative)


stoicly

stoicly (comparative more stoicly, superlative most stoicly)

more stoicly (comparative)
most stoicly (superlative)

In your pleaſures, not to be wanton nor Stoickly to paſſe by them, without taking notice of them.

1612, William Martyn, Youths Instruction, London: […] Iohn Beale, page 69:


cleansingly

cleansingly (comparative more cleansingly, superlative most cleansingly)

more cleansingly (comparative)
most cleansingly (superlative)


participantly

participantly (comparative more participantly, superlative most participantly)

more participantly (comparative)
most participantly (superlative)

Nurses function participantly with all members of a professional team as they aid the patient in making orienting differentiations.

1991, Hildegard E. Peplau, Interpersonal Relations In Nursing:

In a participant manner; as a participant.


thoroughstitch

thoroughstitch (comparative more thoroughstitch, superlative most thoroughstitch)

more thoroughstitch (comparative)
most thoroughstitch (superlative)

Perseverance alone can carry us thorough-stitch.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:


mile-a-minute

He was all excited after the game, talking a mile-a-minute about the last-second shot.


promotingly

promotingly (comparative more promotingly, superlative most promotingly)

more promotingly (comparative)
most promotingly (superlative)


inergetically

inergetically (comparative more inergetically, superlative most inergetically)

more inergetically (comparative)
most inergetically (superlative)


thereanent

(Scotland) Concerning that; relating to that; thereabout.


fact is

Was it a dominating performance? No. Were you expecting dominance? Fact is, Sounders FC created more than twice the chances of the home team. While the finishing was sub-par, the run of play was controlled by the guys in green until the unfortunate mistakes.

2010 April 25, Joshua Mayers, “Sounders FC 0, Toronto FC 2 -- postgame thoughts and player ratings”, in Seattle Times:


bishoply

bishoply (comparative more bishoply, superlative most bishoply)

more bishoply (comparative)
most bishoply (superlative)

And such, for the most part, live naughtily, carnally, fleshly, viciously, pompously, worldly, and not bishoply nor priestly. For they came not in by God, nor by grace.

1838 [????], John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Preliminary Dissertation by the Rev. George Townsend, page 177:

You mouthed it roundly - was't your Sunday's discourse? Alas, that you should speak so bishoply! Now hear you me rebut your lordship's sermon, That this our Lady be not so misled / As to believe it truth.

1908, Reginald Farrer, The Dowager of Jerusalem: A Romance in Four Acts, page 23:

“[…] You may have a second tour covering another thirty-six planets. Of course, this is entirely a charitable gift and the Railroad admits no responsibility.” / “Ummm, I understand; I am a true son of Holy Father Church and do not concern myself with the secular details of the settlement,” I said bishoply.

1982 November, Jerry Pournelle, “The Strategy of Technology”, in Stanley Schmidt, editor, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Davis Publications, page 148:


coactively

coactively (comparative more coactively, superlative most coactively)

more coactively (comparative)
most coactively (superlative)

coactively

coactively dependent

explore objects coactively


insociably

insociably (comparative more insociably, superlative most insociably)

more insociably (comparative)
most insociably (superlative)


contrariantly

contrariantly (comparative more contrariantly, superlative most contrariantly)

more contrariantly (comparative)
most contrariantly (superlative)


perversedly

perversedly (comparative more perversedly, superlative most perversedly)

more perversedly (comparative)
most perversedly (superlative)


foresightfully

foresightfully (comparative more foresightfully, superlative most foresightfully)

more foresightfully (comparative)
most foresightfully (superlative)


misapprehensively

misapprehensively (comparative more misapprehensively, superlative most misapprehensively)

more misapprehensively (comparative)
most misapprehensively (superlative)


spiritally

Latin spiritalis (“belonging to breathing”) + -ly.

uder

Vocal ſpeech, to be pronounced ſpiritally, as are P. T. F. S. &c.

1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:


apertly

en-adv

apertly (comparative more apertly, superlative most apertly)

more apertly (comparative)
most apertly (superlative)

(obsolete) Openly, publicly, without secrecy.

And þat is þe professioun appertly · þat appendeth for knyȝtes.

c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:


lowk

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of low-key.


petitionarily

petitionarily (comparative more petitionarily, superlative most petitionarily)

more petitionarily (comparative)
most petitionarily (superlative)

But this doth but petitionarily infer a dextrality in the heavens, and we may as reasonably conclude a right and left laterality in the ark or naval edifice of Noah.

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


comorbidly

Hypochondriasis is often comorbidly associated with other psychiatric disorders.


diametrally

diametrally (comparative more diametrally, superlative most diametrally)

more diametrally (comparative)
most diametrally (superlative)


attonce

So all attonce they on the Prince did thonder.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35:


yardarm to yardarm

(archaic, idiomatic) Very close to each other.


over the hills and far away

over the hills and far away (not comparable)


high up

From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:


orbicularly

orbicularly (comparative more orbicularly, superlative most orbicularly)

more orbicularly (comparative)
most orbicularly (superlative)


agrope

Life and life and life! agrope in
The dusk of death, warm hands, stretched out
For swords, proved more life still to hope in.

1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the World:

And he saw other things too in her manner: saw how it had adjusted itself to the hidden intricacies of a situation in which, even after Mrs. Fisher's elucidating flashes, he still felt himself agrope.


reverberatingly

reverberatingly (comparative more reverberatingly, superlative most reverberatingly)

more reverberatingly (comparative)
most reverberatingly (superlative)

Music thundered reverberatingly out of the church organ.


attestedly

attestedly (comparative more attestedly, superlative most attestedly)

more attestedly (comparative)
most attestedly (superlative)

Why, to be sure! a kiss is now attestedly a quite innocuous performance, with nothing very fearful about it one way or the other.

In a way that has been attested; confirmedly.


toyingly

toyingly (comparative more toyingly, superlative most toyingly)

more toyingly (comparative)
most toyingly (superlative)

In a toying manner; so as to toy with someone or something.


huswifely

huswifely (comparative more huswifely, superlative most huswifely)

more huswifely (comparative)
most huswifely (superlative)

1573, Thomas Tusser, Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry, London: Richard Tottill, “Enstructions to Huswiferie,”
This care hath a huswife all daye in her hed,
that all thing in season be huswifely fed.

(archaic) In the manner of a huswife; capably; economically; prudently.


pratingly

pratingly (comparative more pratingly, superlative most pratingly)

more pratingly (comparative)
most pratingly (superlative)


pretendingly

pretendingly (comparative more pretendingly, superlative most pretendingly)

more pretendingly (comparative)
most pretendingly (superlative)

The disagreement starts with the species capable of pretend play, which necessarily entails disagreement over what the minds involved do in order to play pretendingly, and when.

2013, Radu J. Bogdan, Mindvaults: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining:

I have a particular Reason to look a little pretendingly at present; therefore I hope you will excuse it

1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:

As if by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.


withinforth

From Middle English withinforth, from withinne + forth.

c. 1449-1455, Reginald Pecock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie
[It is much greater] labour for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon.


withoutforth

From Middle English withouteforth, from withoute + forth.


shamefastly

shamefastly (comparative more shamefastly, superlative most shamefastly)

more shamefastly (comparative)
most shamefastly (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English schamefastli, equivalent to shamefast + -ly.


hardworkingly

en-adv

hardworkingly (comparative more hardworkingly, superlative most hardworkingly)

more hardworkingly (comparative)
most hardworkingly (superlative)


comminglingly

comminglingly (comparative more comminglingly, superlative most comminglingly)

more comminglingly (comparative)
most comminglingly (superlative)


praisingly

praisingly (comparative more praisingly, superlative most praisingly)

more praisingly (comparative)
most praisingly (superlative)

They praisingly gave thanks to God.

Her previous employer praisingly recommended her for the job.


pinchingly

pinchingly (comparative more pinchingly, superlative most pinchingly)

more pinchingly (comparative)
most pinchingly (superlative)

pinchingly cold


compensatively

compensatively (comparative more compensatively, superlative most compensatively)

more compensatively (comparative)
most compensatively (superlative)

In a compensative manner; compensatorily


sleightly

sleightly (comparative more sleightly, superlative most sleightly)

more sleightly (comparative)
most sleightly (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English sleightely; equivalent to sleight + -ly.

inh+

He healeth others sleightly, because he is sick of the same malady

1658, Samuel Crooke, Τα Διαφεροντα, or Divine characters in two parts, acutely distinguishing the more secret and undiscerned differences between 1. The Hypocrite in his best dresse of seeming virtues and formal duties. And the true Christian in his real graces and sincere obedience. As also between 2. The blackest weeds of dayly infirmities of the truly godly, eclipsing saving grace, and the reigning sinnes of the unregenerate that pretend unto that godlinesse they never had, page 218:


roisterly

en-adv

roisterly (comparative more roisterly, superlative most roisterly)

more roisterly (comparative)
most roisterly (superlative)


pastwards

Into the past; moving backwards in time.


futurewards

Into the future; moving forward in time.


supervisorily

In a supervisory manner; by a supervisor.


flatlings

flatlings (comparative more flatlings, superlative most flatlings)

more flatlings (comparative)
most flatlings (superlative)

From Middle English flatlynges, equivalent to flat + -ling + -s.


commutatively

commutatively (comparative more commutatively, superlative most commutatively)

more commutatively (comparative)
most commutatively (superlative)


syphilitically

syphilitically (comparative more syphilitically, superlative most syphilitically)

more syphilitically (comparative)
most syphilitically (superlative)

(medicine) In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.


Thelemically

Thelemically (comparative more Thelemically, superlative most Thelemically)

more Thelemically (comparative)
most Thelemically (superlative)


flatling

flatling (comparative more flatling, superlative most flatling)

more flatling (comparative)
most flatling (superlative)

From Middle English flatling, flatlyng, flatlynge, (also as flatlynges), equivalent to flat + -ling.

Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke, / In signe of true subjection to her powre […]

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


capitularly

capitularly (comparative more capitularly, superlative most capitularly)

more capitularly (comparative)
most capitularly (superlative)

The dean of Strasburg , the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars, (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of buttered buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of Saint Ursula's example

1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

(religion) In the manner or form of, or acting as, a religious chapter.


sapientially

sapientially (comparative more sapientially, superlative most sapientially)

more sapientially (comparative)
most sapientially (superlative)


stackably

In a stackable manner; so as to permit stacking.


apitpat

His heart beat apitpat with every smile she flashed his way.

O here a' comes—Ah my Hector of Troy, vvelcome my Bully, my Back; agad my heart has gone a pit pat for thee.

1693, [William] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 11:

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.


thiefly

thiefly (comparative more thiefly, superlative most thiefly)

more thiefly (comparative)
most thiefly (superlative)

From Middle English thefly; equivalent to thief + -ly.

Downyng described Sybbesoun as "a strong thief to Wood Mill, for truly he and his wife have procured my servant and my goods, that is to say wheat and rye by the bushel and the half, as thiefly and as un-truly as he might do."

2008, Derek G. Neal, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England, page 43:


permeably

permeably (comparative more permeably, superlative most permeably)

more permeably (comparative)
most permeably (superlative)


dry-foot

Where he speaketh of his passage over the River of Rheine, towards Germanie, he saith, that deeming it unworthy the honour of the Romane people, his army should passe over in shippes, he caused a bridge to be built, that so it might passe over drie-foot.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

With dry feet; without getting the feet wet.

A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well, / One that before the Iudgme[n]t carries poore soules to hel.

c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

(obsolete) By only the scent of the feet (of hunting, tracking etc.).


yonders

yonders (comparative more yonders, superlative most yonders)

more yonders (comparative)
most yonders (superlative)

Oh my good Lord, yonders foule Murthers done.

1630, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice:

“No,” said Mrs Moss, “but he's only in the potato-field yonders."

1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss:

He pinted one man to rule yonders, and another man to rule yonders.

1887, The Cosmopolitan - Volume 2, page 304:


alacriously

alacriously (comparative more alacriously, superlative most alacriously)

more alacriously (comparative)
most alacriously (superlative)


astatically

astatically (comparative more astatically, superlative most astatically)

more astatically (comparative)
most astatically (superlative)


proximad

proximad (comparative more proximad, superlative most proximad)

more proximad (comparative)
most proximad (superlative)

(anatomy) Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of; proximally.


frumpishly

frumpishly (comparative more frumpishly, superlative most frumpishly)

more frumpishly (comparative)
most frumpishly (superlative)


mostwhat

All the rest do mostwhat far amiss.

1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


autoptically

it would autoptically ſilence that dispute out of which side Eve was framed

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

By means of ocular view, or one's own observation.


proscriptively

proscriptively (comparative more proscriptively, superlative most proscriptively)

more proscriptively (comparative)
most proscriptively (superlative)


compulsatively

compulsatively (comparative more compulsatively, superlative most compulsatively)

more compulsatively (comparative)
most compulsatively (superlative)


scrapingly

scrapingly (comparative more scrapingly, superlative most scrapingly)

more scrapingly (comparative)
most scrapingly (superlative)

She pushed her chair back scrapingly.


telarly

telarly (comparative more telarly, superlative most telarly)

more telarly (comparative)
most telarly (superlative)

telarly interwoven

(obsolete, nonce word) In a web-like manner.


enravishingly

enravishingly (comparative more enravishingly, superlative most enravishingly)

more enravishingly (comparative)
most enravishingly (superlative)

So as to enravish, or throw into ecstasy.


simplemindedly

simplemindedly (comparative more simplemindedly, superlative most simplemindedly)

more simplemindedly (comparative)
most simplemindedly (superlative)

The idea of containment has been given an all too simplemindedly military definition of requirements at the expense of the political underpinning needed to provide the stability of adequate public resolution in the Western democracies.

1988, Colin S. Gray, The Geopolitics of Super Power, →ISBN, page 118:


rubberily

rubberily (comparative more rubberily, superlative most rubberily)

more rubberily (comparative)
most rubberily (superlative)


rubbingly

rubbingly (comparative more rubbingly, superlative most rubbingly)

more rubbingly (comparative)
most rubbingly (superlative)

So as to rub; with a rubbing action or motion.


parchingly

parchingly (comparative more parchingly, superlative most parchingly)

more parchingly (comparative)
most parchingly (superlative)

Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.

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


approvedly

approvedly (comparative more approvedly, superlative most approvedly)

more approvedly (comparative)
most approvedly (superlative)

So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.


starchedly

starchedly (comparative more starchedly, superlative most starchedly)

more starchedly (comparative)
most starchedly (superlative)


finically

finically (comparative more finically, superlative most finically)

more finically (comparative)
most finically (superlative)


precautiously

precautiously (comparative more precautiously, superlative most precautiously)

more precautiously (comparative)
most precautiously (superlative)


atonically

atonically (comparative more atonically, superlative most atonically)

more atonically (comparative)
most atonically (superlative)


unscripturally

unscripturally (comparative more unscripturally, superlative most unscripturally)

more unscripturally (comparative)
most unscripturally (superlative)


petrochemically

petrochemically derived butanol


unmystically

unmystically (comparative more unmystically, superlative most unmystically)

more unmystically (comparative)
most unmystically (superlative)

Even prophecy, which is mystical in its essence, was in the early period conceived as unmystically as possible, Balaam is merely a mouthpiece of God; his message is external to his personality, which remains antagonistic to it.

1956, William Ralph Inge, Christian Mysticism, page 58:

In a manner that is not mystical; without mysticism.


slaughterously

slaughterously (comparative more slaughterously, superlative most slaughterously)

more slaughterously (comparative)
most slaughterously (superlative)


unpicturesquely

unpicturesquely (comparative more unpicturesquely, superlative most unpicturesquely)

more unpicturesquely (comparative)
most unpicturesquely (superlative)


equipollently

them that Love him: but equipollently, and according to sense

a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Divinity of the Holy Ghost”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:


herefor

From the Middle English hēr-for; equivalent to here + for; compare herefore, therefor, and wherefor, as well as the Danish herfor, the Dutch hiervoor, the German hierfür, and the Swedish härför.

(obsolete outside Scotland) For this: instead or in consideration of this, with a view to this.


leftwise

and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.

1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:

Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.

2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:

(rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.


simmeringly

simmeringly (comparative more simmeringly, superlative most simmeringly)

more simmeringly (comparative)
most simmeringly (superlative)

This meant that the quieter, more compliant African Caribbean child was perceived as subnormal or simmeringly hostile when the more competitive, garrulous behaviour which typified British children was taken as the normative standard.

1999, Chris Chaloner, Michael Coffey, Forensic mental health nursing: current approaches, page 127:


pamperingly

pamperingly (comparative more pamperingly, superlative most pamperingly)

more pamperingly (comparative)
most pamperingly (superlative)

Now Joseph, like the psalmist, was profane enough to find a divinity in his digestive organs; and it was only natural that she who tended so pamperingly what was his god, should become his goddess.

1846, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Sketches of English character, page 276:

So as to pamper; with indulgent attentions.


incedingly

incedingly (comparative more incedingly, superlative most incedingly)

more incedingly (comparative)
most incedingly (superlative)

From Latin incedere (“to walk majestically”) + English -ing + -ly.

Even in the uttermost frenzy of energy is each mænad movement royally, imperially, incedingly upborne. Her hair, flying loose in revel or war, is still an angel's hair, and glorious under a halo.

1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Vashti”, in Villette. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 191:


purulently

purulently (comparative more purulently, superlative most purulently)

more purulently (comparative)
most purulently (superlative)


pansexually

The pansexually perverse bisexuals who cruised everybody, eliminating only the illiterate, were probably the only people there who really "got" the queerness of our party.


chargeably

chargeably (comparative more chargeably, superlative most chargeably)

more chargeably (comparative)
most chargeably (superlative)


sortably

sortably (comparative more sortably, superlative most sortably)

more sortably (comparative)
most sortably (superlative)


rightways

rightways (comparative more rightways, superlative most rightways)

more rightways (comparative)
most rightways (superlative)

Such hands could turn the unborn child rightways in the birth canal

2004, Ronne Hartfield, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family, page 111:

When I work on it rightways up, I am conscious of the figuration. When I work on it upside down, then I'm thinking of the space

2007, Robert Amos, Artists in Their Studios: Where Art Is Born, page 25:

I went out to the hallway to turn the mop bucket back rightways and consider the options.

Conapanny did not make at once east up the hill, but led a course slanting rightways over the shoulder, descending about four o'clock into the gully on the hinder side

1918, William Hay, The escape of the notorious Sir William Heans, page 398:

But the trees went uphill and down, turned leftways and rightways, without landmarks or anything to orient me with the tracks.

1987, R. Conrad, Act of Writing, page 17:

"They're trying to take out the tires," John said, wheeling rightways.

Now, that is a thing as I never was asked for before, and don't rightways know what it be; if it's sealing-wax, it's welcome you are

1878, Jean Middlemass, “Peter Stott's Dream”, in Belgravia, volume 34, page 25:


promissorily

Nor was he obliged by oath unto a strict observation of that which promissorily was unlawful


conducibly

conducibly (comparative more conducibly, superlative most conducibly)

more conducibly (comparative)
most conducibly (superlative)

In a conducible manner; so as to promote.


herefore

From the Middle English hēr-for; equivalent to here + for; compare herefor, therefore, and wherefore, as well as the Danish herfor, the Dutch hiervoor, the German hierfür, and the Swedish härför.

(now formal) For this reason; on this account; therefore.


deperditely

deperditely (comparative more deperditely, superlative most deperditely)

more deperditely (comparative)
most deperditely (superlative)

deperditely wicked

(archaic, rare) Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined.


siccar

From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; gewiss, securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer. For more, see sicker.

inh

Alternative spelling of sicker: certainly

Alternative spelling of sicker: securely


apeak

From French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco.

Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak.

a 1796, Charles Dibdin, "Nautical Philosophy"

I found the New Shoreham with her anchor apeak and, within a quarter of an hour after I reached her, running seven knots an hour, right before the wind.

1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 163

(nautical, of an anchor) In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.


whenceafter

/ʍɛnsˈɑːftə/

Its light came from thirty feet to the left of it, and the moon itself rose audibly until a stagehand juggled it, whenceafter it ceased to rise.

1918–1925, Booth Tarkington [aut.] and Alan Seymour Downer [ed.], On Plays, Playwrights, and Playgoers (1959), page 16

In the case of each [Master] his Mission was revealed to him at a certain period of his life-career, whenceafter he set himself apart from the world…in order to fulfil his Mission, free from worldly ties and entanglements.

1919, Holden Edward Sampson, Theou Sophia II: “Re-Generation” (2003 reprint), page 16

The spy followed Le Queux again the next day in the streets of Bucharest and Le Queux complained to the police, whenceafter the spy was not seen again.

1938, Norman St. Barbe Sladen, The Real Le Queux, page 77:


theftuously

en-adv

theftuously (comparative more theftuously, superlative most theftuously)

more theftuously (comparative)
most theftuously (superlative)


strickly

strickly (comparative more strickly, superlative most strickly)

more strickly (comparative)
most strickly (superlative)


theremid

From Middle English thermid, tharmid, thormid, from Old English þǣrmid (“therewith, with that, straightway, at the same time”); equivalent to there (“that”) + mid (“with”), from Middle English mid (“with”). Cognate with Dutch daarmee (“therewith, so”), German damit (“theremid, so”), Swedish därmed (“theremid, so, thus”).

inh

He hath kissed her with the kisses of his mouth,
She is blacker than tents of Kedar,
Her roses nod east and her roses nod south
Across the wide casements of cedar,
But the Rose of Sharon weeps theremid
Until her true lover hath freed her.

1973, Duse Mohamed, The African Times and Orient Review, volume 2, page 76:

(archaic, poetic) With or by means of that; therewith.


bulimically

en-adv

bulimically (comparative more bulimically, superlative most bulimically)

more bulimically (comparative)
most bulimically (superlative)

On the contrary, the power of her appeal was precisely the vulnerable fallibility that became increasingly visible as the wide eyes got still wider in the bulimically shrunken cheeks.

1998, Brian MacArthur, Requiem: Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-1997, page 140:

Like Hamlet, he's got an 'eatupus complex', indulging in incestuous cunnilinguistics underneath the 'squirtscreen' of his octopus-ink; and he also eats too much, bulimically devouring and regurgitating other people's words[…]

2003, Peter Holland, Shakespeare and comedy, page 144:


disposingly

[…] it is the duty of pastors to exhort their people to perform these works, because, if they be rightly done, they bring with them from the divine benignity and promise, forgiveness of sins, in some mode, whether disposingly or instrumentally.

1850, William Forbes, Considerationes modestæ et pacificæ controversiarum de justificatione, purgatorio, invocatione sanctorum et Christo Mediatore:

1910?, Marion Hill, Harmony Hall
This blot she removed upon her finger and then rubbed disposingly into her velvet fillet.


districtly

districtly (comparative more districtly, superlative most districtly)

more districtly (comparative)
most districtly (superlative)

these apostolicall writings, districtly and in vertue of obedience commanding you

1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:


sundrily

sundrily (comparative more sundrily, superlative most sundrily)

more sundrily (comparative)
most sundrily (superlative)


antonomastically

(rhetoric) In terms of, or by means of, antonomasia.

antonomastiquement

in terms of, or by means of, antonomasia


shonkily

shonkily (comparative more shonkily, superlative most shonkily)

more shonkily (comparative)
most shonkily (superlative)


successionally

In terms of, or by means of, succession.


del credere

Borrowed from Italian, of belief or trust.

(business) Engaging, when selling goods on credit, to guarantee to the principal that the purchaser is solvent. The seller is otherwise responsible for the debt.


petitely

petitely (comparative more petitely, superlative most petitely)

more petitely (comparative)
most petitely (superlative)


routously

[…] did unlawfully, riotously and routously assemble and gather together, to disturb the peace of the said state […]

1843, Samuel Dana Bell, Justice and sheriff, page 318:

(law) With that violation of law called a rout.


snifflingly

snifflingly (comparative more snifflingly, superlative most snifflingly)

more snifflingly (comparative)
most snifflingly (superlative)


snuffingly

snuffingly (comparative more snuffingly, superlative most snuffingly)

more snuffingly (comparative)
most snuffingly (superlative)


sinistrad

From Latin sinistra (“the left hand”) + -ad.

(anatomy, zoology) Toward the left side; sinistrally.