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Webster 1913 Edition


Butcherly

Butch′er-ly

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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

Webster 1828 Edition


Butcherly

BUTCH'ERLY

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

Definition 2024


butcherly

butcherly

English

Adjective

butcherly (comparative more butcherly, superlative most butcherly)

  1. Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
      Alexander comming to the Ocean of India, cast in favour of Thetis many great rich vessels of gold into the Sea, replenishing moreover her Altars with a butcherly slaughter, not onely of innocent beasts, but of men [].

Adverb

butcherly (comparative more butcherly, superlative most butcherly)

  1. (obsolete) Like a butcher; cruelly, brutally.