a. and adv. Obs. Also 6 bussardly, buzardly, 7 -lie. [f. BUZZARD1 + -LY.] Like a buzzard; stupid(ly), senseless(ly).

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1561.  Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 132 b. Which thing … the bussardly Anabaptistes will not vnderstand.

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1581.  J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 24 b. So captious and bussardly a Sophister? Ibid., 405 b. So superstitious and bussardly blinde.

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1654.  Gataker, Disc. Apol., 96. My clumsie Annotation, and buzardlie Vindication.

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