adv. [f. LYING ppl. a.2 + -LY2.] In a lying manner, mendaciously.
1382. Wyclif, Jer. vii. 8. To steln, to slen, to don auoutrie, to swern liendely, to offre to Baalym. Ibid., Ezek. xiii. 22. For that that ȝe maden leeiȝyngli the herte of the iust man to mourne, whom Y made not sorewful.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg., G iv. Of whiche .xij. rybbes there be .vij. very, and .v. false or lyengly.
1682. Disc. Addresses or Presentm. to King, 20. Their Popes (who go lyingly under the Name of Christ’s Vicars).
1804. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), VI. 146. It reached his ear, that she had lyingly called him ‘the thing of sound without sense.’
1895. Times, 19 Jan., 11/6. He lyingly reported that he had sunk two of the French men-of-war.
