frostilyadv.

1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes lii, in Wks. I. 782 I rather thou should'st vtterly Dispraise my worke, then praise it frostily.

a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) II. 155 Our unpassion'd Cato's and half-passion'd Tamerlanes were left too little animated by their authors, but were never written, with so frostily congeal'd a chillness, as their actors have been pleas'd to lend 'em.

1845 T. W. Coit Puritanism 334 How frostily they looked upon a sturdy self-will.

1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 593/1 Her mother met them frostily.

1961 A. Simpson & R. Galton Four Hancock Scripts 38 Tony: Any room for a littl'un? (Laugh). They stare at him frostily.

2004 Times 23 July 4/1 A frostily received maiden speech.

1805 A. Taylor in J. Taylor et al. Orig. Poems for Infant Minds II. 59 When Winter blows bleak, and loud bellows the storm, And frostily twinkle the stars.

1872 Galaxy July 118/1 The moon..shines but dimly... Swans are asleep in the basins, their long backs gleam frostily.

1908 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Fair Mississippian i. 17 His white hair gleaming frostily.

2002 R. E. Howard Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (2005) 65 The shimmering shaft of the tower rose frostily in the stars.