adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a bellicose or warlike manner or direction.
1844. Whig Clarion, 24 July, 2/2. They bring up their chargers and make them paw quite bellicosely at the black Tariff.
1882. E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, I. xxiv. 415. Anything like rallying the more bellicosely inclined of the pilgrims would … be out of the question.
