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halieutically en · ADV

Etymology

From halieutic + -ally.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, not-comparable, rare) In terms of fishing.
    • […] perhaps the author himself, despite the hundred and fifty pages which he has filled, has been somewhat cramped by his attempt to be halieutically encyclopaedic. 1883, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
    • But, however much to be despised gastronomically, the barbel halieutically, or in an angling point of view, amply makes up for his carnal insipidity and positive nastiness. He is essentially a game fish when hooked, and fights bravely to the last. 1877, John Jackson Manley, Notes on Fish and Fishing, page 267: