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Webster 1913 Edition


Burglariously

Bur-gla′ri-ous-ly

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adv.
With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Burglariously

BURGLA'RIOUSLY

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adv.
With an intent to commit burglary;in the manner of a burglar.

Definition 2024


burglariously

burglariously

English

Adverb

burglariously (comparative more burglariously, superlative most burglariously)

  1. (dated, law) As a burglar; in order to burgle.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.219:
      Cheops erected the first Pyramid / And largest, thinking it was just the thing / To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; / But somebody or other rummaging, / Burglariously broke his coffin's lid []
    • 1914, Arthur Percival Will, Standard Encyclopædia of Procedure, page 243:
      [] then and there feloniously and burglariously did steal, take and carry away.
    • 1915, “STATE v. BURNS”, in The Southwestern Reporter, volume 173, page 1070:
      Under Rev. St. 1900, § 4528, permitting a charge both of burglary and larceny, when the larceny is committed at the time of the burglary in the building burglariously entered, to be joined in the same count of an information []