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superˈstitiously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a superstitious manner.
1. In the way of superstition; with irrational religious belief or observance.
1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. 21 b, To defend thair self..aganis fyre, watter, swerd,..with certene takinnisor writingis supersticiously. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. xi. (1634) 37 Because God will not be worshipped superstitiouslie, therefore whatsoever is given to idols is taken from him. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 40 Dreames, are toyes, Yet for this once, yea superstitiously, I will be squar'd by this. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 207 The common people superstitiously beleive, that tis very dangerous to break a bough from it. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 375 The superstitiously-zealous in their own way, they would shew like a company of saints. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xi, But that neither scene nor season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2268 Friday is superstitiously held to be an unlucky day.
†2. Over-scrupulously; punctiliously; with excessive care or exactness. Obs.
1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 39 Here thou seist whother Tindale is brought for so supersticyously steking to onely one significacion of this worde Resurrectio. 1659Hammond Annot. Ps. xxxi. 6 That heathen men..are..wont to apply themselves..to false gods..observing their responses most superstitiously. 1676Hobbes Iliad Pref. (1686) 8 A fault proper to Translators, when they hold themselves too superstitiously to their Authors words. 1725Watts Logic iv. i, Neither of these two Methods should be too scrupulously and superstitiously pursued. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit., Hist. New Words, But we have puritans or precisians of English, superstitiously nice! 1816Bentham Chrestom. 292 For division, the dichotomous..mode is most to be commended,..but it ought not to be every where hunted out too superstitiously and anxiously. |