ˈheathenishly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a heathen, unchristian, pagan, or barbarous manner.
| 1561 J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 84 A thousand yeares after the incarnation of Christ, the Byshops began to defile the Lordes supper..too heathenishly. 1580 Ord. of Prayer in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 574 The Sabbath days and holy days..spent full heathenishly, in taverning, tippling [etc.]. 1611 Beaum. & Fl. King & no K. i. i, 'Tis heathenishly done of 'em in my conscience. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones vii. xv, He was heathenishly inclined to believe in, or to worship the goddess Nemesis. 1836 Chamb. Jrnl. 24 Dec. 383 The burial place of the royal family heathenishly styled the ‘Pantheon’. |