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▪ I. † ˈheathenly, a. Obs.
[f. heathen + -ly1. Cf. OHG. heidanlîh, MHG. heidenlîch.]
Heathen-like, heathenish, heathen.
1415Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 21 Fro cristen folk to hethenly couyne. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 176 Which hath made me..of an heathenly Pagan a heauenly Protestant. 1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 158 The manner..of this mariage was so streinge and heathenly.
▪ II. ˈheathenly, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
After the manner of the heathen; barbarously.
1382Wyclif 2 Macc. xv. 2 Do thou not so feersly and heithenly. ― Gal. ii. 14 If thou, sithen thou ert a Jew, lyuest hethenli [1388 hethenlich] and not Jewly. 1579J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. xxxix. 87 Them that teach with the desperate and damnable Turkes, or that do beleeue as his Ienesaries are instructed al too Heathenly. 1776W. C. Combe Diaboliad 6 note, Mercury..is (Heathenly speaking) the presiding Genius of rogues, sharpers, &c. |