poisonously

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Definition of poisonously

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a poisonous manner.
    “c. 1900, Thomas Edison, quotation The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.”
    “To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.”
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adv

  1. In a poisonous manner.
    “c. 1900, Thomas Edison, quotation The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.”
    “To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.”
  2. (obsolete)Using poison.

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Etymology

From poisonous + -ly.

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