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Webster 1828 Edition


Poisonously

POIS'ONOUSLY

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adv.
With fatal or injurious effects; venomously.

Definition 2024


poisonously

poisonously

English

Adverb

poisonously

  1. In a poisonous manner.
    • Thomas Edison
      The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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.