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ˈslantingly, adv.
[f. slanting ppl. a. + -ly.]
In a slanting direction or position; with a slope or inclination; aslant, obliquely.
1570Billingsley Euclid xii. prop. xvii. 380 Which it will the more aptly doo, if ye do abate slauntingly the contrary arasses of the slitt of it. 1683Snape Anat. Horse ii. viii. (1686) 85 The septum of a Hog's Heart slantingly pervious in several places with great..pores. 1708Berkeley Commonpl. Bk. Wks. 1871 IV. 489 The extension of a plain, look'd at straight and slantingly. 1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 184 Cut it slantingly, half way through up towards the next joint. 1817Keats ‘Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry’ 12 The lance points slantingly Athwart the morning air. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xiii. (1878) 247 The afternoon sun as it shone slantingly through the stained window.
b. fig. Indirectly.
a1677Barrow Pope's Supremacy Wks. 1859 VIII. 9 It little mattereth, if he may strike princes, whether it be by a downright blow, or slantingly. 1694Strype Cranmer i. xxvi. 111 Slantingly through their Sides, striking at the Arch-bishop himself. |