adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In an English manner, † a. By means of an English word; in English (obs.). b. After the manner of the English people, like an Englishman or Englishmen. (rare in mod. use.)

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1529.  More, Dial. Heresyes, I. Wks. 221/1. If he wold call the priestes englishly.

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1565.  J. Halle, Hist. Expost., 113. Scarificatio, uel cutis Sculptura, englishly Scarification.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XII. lxxii. (1612), 300. Arm’d be euery hand and heart hence, Englishly, to beat Spaine.

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1641.  Sir B. Rudyard, in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 315. It behoves us, Mr. Speaker, to be Englishly sensible of the Injustice, of the Indignity.

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1765.  H. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann (F. Hall).

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1818.  Jas. Mill, Lett., 30 April, in Macvey Napier’s Corr. (1879), 19. Englishly-educated people are all hostile to him.

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1859.  Sala, Gas-light & D., xv. 168. Voices anything but (Englishly) human.

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