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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Greekly en · ADV

Etymology

From Greek + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a Greek manner; in a way characteristic of Greeks.
    • Originally all the Delta waterways had been natural, but after the Greekly scientific Ptolemies came to rule Egypt, they connected Nilus's network of arms with thousands of canals, […] 2007, Colleen McCullough, The October Horse, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 82:
    • They were termed agons (or, to pluralize more Greekly, agones), which word, despite the evident connection to our agony or agonize, originally had nothing to do with the duress or anguish these words now convey. 2011, Robert Metcalfe, Simpson Agonistes: A History of a Crime, iUniverse, published 2012, →ISBN, page 19:
    • The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect. 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:

Forms

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most Greekly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more Greekly Degree=Cmp lexicographic