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

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  † 1.  In an ‘ethnical’ or heathenish manner. Obs.

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1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 117/2. This pope … mainteined the filthie idolatrie of images … commanding them most ethnicallie to be incensed.

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  2.  As regards race; ‘racially.’

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1847.  Grote, Greece, II. xxii. III. 464. The Œnotrians were ethnically akin to the primitive population of Rome.

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1876.  Gladstone, Homeric Synchr., 65. No one can suppose Trojan and Hellene to have been … ethnically one, though both were probably of the Aryan stock.

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