a. rare. [f. as prec. + -LY1.] Tiger-like, tigerish.

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1633.  D. Dyke, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xciv. 12. Tigerly and tyrannical persecutors.

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1648.  King’s Gracious Messages for Peace, 39. They are not ashamed … to appropriate unto him their own Tigerly dispositions.

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1855.  Chamb. Jrnl., IV. 289. You might mollify the heart of the most tigerly disposed of the human race.

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  So † Tigerness Obs., tigerishness, ferocity.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), I. 91. He changit syne … To tigirnes and greit tiranitie.

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