adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a vitreous manner: a. With positive electricity.

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1794.  G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., IV. xlvi. 264. Those attracted by excited wax, are vitreously … electrified.

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1844.  Noad, Electricity (ed. 2), 9. We are led to the inference that the cloth is vitreously electrified.

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1885.  Watson & Burbury, Math. Th. Electr. & Magn., I. 75. The outside of the vessel will be found to be vitreously electrified.

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  b.  Glassily; like glass.

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1904.  Howells, Son of Royal Langbrith, 62. In the moonlight Hawberk’s face had a greenish hue, and his eyes shone vitreously.

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