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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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736 words match “SELY”

IMMENSELY adv.
In immense manner or degree.
INCISELY adv.
In an incised manner.
INTENSELY adv. 2 definitions
To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.
INVERSELY adv.
In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly. Inversely proportional. See Directly proportional, under Directly, and Inversion, 4.
LOOSELY adv.
In a loose manner.
MASELYN n.
A drinking cup. See 1st Maslin, 2. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MOROSELY adv.
Sourly; with sullen austerity.
OBTUSELY adv.
In an obtuse manner.
OBVERSELY adv.
In an obverse manner.
PERVERSELY adv.
In a perverse manner.
PREPENSELY adv.
In a premeditated manner.
PROFUSELY adv.
In a profuse manner.
PROSELYTE n. 2 definitions
arty; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes. Cowper.
PROSELYTISM n. 2 definitions
The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke.
PROSELYTIZE v. 2 definitions
t to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte. One of those whom they endeavor to proselytize. Burke.
PROSELYTIZER n.
One who proselytes.
PURPOSELY adv.
gn; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong. Pope.
RECLUSELY adv.
In a recluse or solitary manner.
REVERSELY adv.
In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite. Bp. Pearson.
RIGHTWISELY adv.
Righteously. [Obs.]
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