catholicly, adv.
(ˈkæθəlɪklɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ly.]
1. Universally, with universal application. ? Obs.
| 1631 Sir L. Cary Elegy on Donne (T.) No druggist of the soul bestow'd on all So catholicly a curing cordial. 1645 Milton Tetrach. (1851) 170 That Mariage is indissoluble, is not Catholickly true; wee know it dissoluble for Adultery and for desertion. |
2. In accordance with the faith or teaching of the Catholic Church.
| 1542 Boorde Dyetary xl. (1870) 302 That the sycke person may fynysshe his lyfe Catholyckely in the fayth of Iesu Cryste. 1583 W. Fulke Defence 63 The late new English Testament catholicly translated and printed at Rheims. 1679 E. Everard Popish Plot 1, I was one of her privatest Friends, and Catholickly affected. 1853 Card. Wiseman Ess. II. 377 We own we do not see it, if viewed Catholicly. |
b. so Roman Catholicly.
| 1793 H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) I. lxviii. 250 You are either run Roman Catholicly devout or take me to be so. |