illiberally, adv.
(ɪˈlɪbərəlɪ)
[f. illiberal a. + -ly2.]
In an illiberal manner: see the adj.
| c 1611 Chapman Iliad iii. 378 There is no God given more illiberally To those that serve thee than thyself. 1667 Decay Chr. Piety xiv. ¶2 One that had been bountiful only upon surprize and incogitancy, illiberally retracts and contradicts his original design. 1753 Chesterfield Lett. (1792) IV. ccxcix. 19 Nineteen, an age at which most of your countrymen are illiberally getting drunk in Port at the University. 1818 Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 498 The spirit of their administration was not illiberally exclusive. |