a. and adv. [f. COUSIN sb. + -LY: cf. brotherly, etc.]
A. adj. Characteristic of or befitting a cousin.
c. 1815. Jane Austen, Persuas. (1833), I. xii. 308. That cousinly little interview.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., v. (ed. 12), 27. He … had been open-handed and cousinly to all who begged advice of him.
B. adv. In a cousinly manner.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, III. 403. I love my cousin cousinly,—no more.
