Englishlyadv.
/ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃli/, U.S. /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃli/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adverb] > in English
Saxonlya1387
Englishlya1475
anglice1523
northernlyc1576
northern1614
saxonically1837
a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 30 The Flemmynges..hane left here Rude barbarye & spekyne more saxoonly or englysshely.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 221/1 If he wold call the priestes englishly.
1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 113 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Scarificatio uel cutis Sculptura, englishly Scarification.
2. In an English manner; like an English person or people.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adverb]
Englishly1596
Saxonly1864
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxiii. 302 Arm'd be euery hand, and heart, hence Englishly to beate Spayn.
1641 B. Rudyerd Two Speeches i. 3 It behoves us..to be Englishly sensible of the Injustice.
1818 J. Mill Let. 30 Apr. in Select. from Corr. M. Napier (1879) 19 Englishly-educated people are all hostile to him.
1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight xv. 168 Voices anything but (Englishly) human.
1916 P. Grainger Let. 12 Feb. in All-round Man (1994) 20 Here at Orchard's school one shivers..at the utterly freezing temperature of an Englishly non-warmed establishment.
1958 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 42 6/1 Oral reading..is the best way to keep children from building up the habit of reading the foreign language Englishly.
2004 C. Chambers Inside Royal Shakespeare Company p. xiii He..remained at odds with the political and arts establishment, which dismissed his din, very Englishly, as whingeing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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