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burglarious, a.|bɜːˈglɛərɪəs|
[f. burglary + -ous. Cf. felonious.]
1. Of or pertaining to burglary; addicted to burglary; involving the guilt of burglary.
1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 226 All these entries have been adjudged burglarious, though there was no actual breaking. 1807Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. iv, The larcenous and burglarious world. 1822Byron Werner ii. i. 26 This burglarious, larcenous felony.
2. Burglar-like.
1859Thackeray Virgin. lxxxix, The daring and burglarious capture of two forts of which he forced the doors. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. 1 A burglarious stream of fog creeping in..through the key-hole.
Hence burˈglariously adv.
1807Opie Lect. Art iii. (1848) 311 Burglariously entered the Temple of Fame by the window. 1883Law Rep. XI. Queen's B. 588 The plaintiff's dwelling-house..was burglariously entered. |