adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In a criminous manner; criminally.

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1640.  Bp. Hall, Episc., III. iv. 239. It ought to seeme incredible … that this man, who is Gods Priest, should live criminously.

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1654.  Hammond, Answ. Animadv. Ignat., i. 10. So criminously guilty of it.

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  † 2.  With reference to crime; by way of crimination. Obs.

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1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 1325. These wordes tooke crimonously in that place.

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1625.  trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., I. (1688), 112. By accusing her criminously.

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