adv. [f. CLANDESTINE a. + -LY2.] In a clandestine manner; secretly, privately: usually in bad sense.
1632. High Commission Cases (1886), 277. For … clandestinelie marrying of himself to his now wife.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 91. His body being interred clandestinely, attended with about an hundred mourners.
1724. Swift, Drapier’s Lett., Wks. 1755, V. II. 103. Two printed papers clandestinely spread about.
1800. Colquhoun, Comm. Thames, xiv. 392. If the Seamen, shall clandestinely conceal or import any Foreign Spirituous Liquors.
1839–40. W. Irving, Wolfert’s R. (1855), 39. All this course of reading was carried on clandestinely, for I was a little ashamed of it.
