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unˈlawfully, adv.
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1. In an unlawful manner; illegally.
a1310in Wright Lyric P. xvi. 53 That he wolde..Me lede to my lyves ende, unlahfulliche in lyhte. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iv. 290 As þe sauter sheweþ by suche as ȝeuen mede, Þat vnlawfulliche lyuen, hauen large honden. 1414Rolls of Parlt. IV. 57/1 The processe of myn outelawery was unlawfully made. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 134 Injure or violence unlauchfully usurpit. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) D iij b, If their goodes..shall vnlawfully and vnorderly..be spoyled. 1653Urquhart's Logopandecteision H iij b, Unlawfully-acquired goods. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T., Mark i. 44 The unlawfully called and bad priests. 1710Act 9 Anne c. 16 If any Person..shall unlawfully attempt to kill, or shall unlawfully assault..one of the most Honourable Privy Council. 1824Mackintosh Sp. Ho. Comm. 1 June, Wks. 1846 III. 401 Whether a British subject has been lawfully or unlawfully condemned to death. 1844Kinglake Eothen xxv, The Mahometan authorities..were conscious of having acted unlawfully.
2. Illegitimately.
1552Elyot, Illegitimi, vnlaufully begotten, bastardes. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 132 Athir Bastardis, or vnlawfollie gottin and borne. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 196 Rather..then my sonne should be vnlawfullie borne. 1711Addison Spect. No. 203 What Part I, being unlawfully born, may claim of the Man's Affection who begot me. 1755Johnson, Illegitimate, unlawfully begotten; not begotten in wedlock. |