adv. [f. THIRSTY + -LY2.] In a thirsty manner; with thirst. Also fig.

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1549.  Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par., 1 Peter, 7. Not to be supped lothesomly, but gredily, yea and thrustily.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, III. Wks. 1724, II. 427. Which she … had drunk up thirstily.

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c. 1665.  Mrs. Hutchinson, Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846), 403. A kinsman of his who thirstily aspired after preferment.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. iii. From such Fountain he draws, diligently, thirstily.

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