adv. [f. CRIMINAL a. + -LY2.]
1. According to criminal law.
1560. 1st Bk. Discip. Ch. Scot., vii. (1836), 49. If any of the university be criminally persued.
1651. W. G., trans. Cowel’s Inst., 210. It is in his choise … whether he will prosecute the party civilly or criminally.
1699. Ludlow, Mem., III. 110 (R.). They thought not convenient to proceed against him criminally.
1885. Law Reports 14 Q. Bench Div. 202. The Attorney General … was entrusted by the constitution to sue for the King, either civilly or criminally.
2. In a criminal manner; so as to constitute crime.
a. 1729. J. Rogers, 19 Serm., xi. (1735), 214 (J.). Our Discourse is no more confined than our Thoughts, extends to all Subjects,… and may be criminally employed on all.
1758. S. Hayward, Serm., xvii. 505. David … when he fell so criminally and so publickly.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 537. The earl’s conduct … had been, as he afterwards thought, criminally moderate.
1886. Law Times, LXXXI. 178/1. The corespondent … proved that he had not been criminally intimate with the respondent.
