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cannibally en · ADV

Etymology

From cannibal + -ly.

Meanings

1. In the manner of a cannibal.
   • An he had been cannibally given. c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
   • The Christians who think that they eat their God, who as a human victim immolated himself to his own divinity, do not so cannibally. 1842, Samuel Hibbert, Polylogy's Sayings:

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