navallyadv.
/ˈneɪvl̩i/, /ˈneɪvəli/, U.S. /ˈneɪvəli/ In a naval manner; from a naval point of view. navally crowned adj. having a naval crown.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [adjective] > crowned or coroneted
crownedc1405
coronetty1688
honoured1688
imperially crowned1715
navally crowned1816
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [adverb]
navally1836
1730 E. Young Imperium Pelagi sig. a2v King George II. His glory navally represented.
1816 in J. B. Paul Ordinary of Arms (1893) 159/2 Or, a lion rampant gu., navally crowned az.
1836 R. Cobden Russia in Polit. Writings R. Cobden (1878) 120 Russia even at Constantinople would..commercially and navally speaking be three times as distant as New York from Great Britain.
1898 Daily News 8 Aug. 5/5 China cannot compete navally with any of the three Powers either singly or combined.
1932 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 4 525 As has already been shown, Russia was navally in a weaker position as regards the Black Sea than Turkey.
1948 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 20 349/1 The third point, navally restricting Russia on the Black Sea, proved to be the only one of these that encountered serious obstacles.
1996 D. F. Wallace Supposedly Fun Thing (1997) 331 Women of all ages and estrogen-levels swooned, sighed, wobbled, lash-batted, growled, and hubba'd when one of these navally resplendent Greek officers went by.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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