† melancholiclyadv.
Obsolete.
With regard to black bile; in a melancholy manner; melancholically.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adverb]
melancholicly1607
melancholily1647
melancholically1882
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xii. 130 An aliment vnto the parts which are melancholikly qualified, as the bones, grisles, sinewes, &c.
1635 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences (ed. 2) 202 (note) Men are melancholikely grieved.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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adv.1607- keep one's seat
- keep one's silence
- keep one's standing
- keep one's state
- keep one's station
- keep one's temper
- keep one's terms
- keep one's the wind
- keep one's threap
- keep one's toe in one's pump
- keep one's tongue
- keep one's top eye open
- keep one's touch
- keep one's trap shut
- keep one's way
- keep one's weather-eye open
- keep one's weathereye open
- keep one's wicket up
- keep one's wind
- keep one's wool
- keep one's word
- keep one'the hand in use
- keep one'the house
- keep one'the options open
- keep oneself to oneself