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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

“The victim of a butcherly murder.”

D. Webster.

What stratagems, how fell, how

butcherly

,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!

Shakespeare

Adj.

[from butcher.] Cruel; savage; murderous; grossly and clumsily barbarous.