burglariously

comparative more burglariously · superlative most burglariously

1. datedlawAs a burglar; in order to burgle.

   […] then and there feloniously and burglariously did steal, take and carry away.

   1914, Arthur Percival Will, Standard Encyclopædia of Procedure, page 243

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   John Hornby was committed on Monday last to Newgate by Justice Ward, for Burglariously entering the House of a Watchmaker in Essex-street and feloniously stealing thence seven Watches; […]

   1728 April 18, “Saturday's Post: From the New London Evening Post, April 11: London, April 11”, in The British Spy: Or, Derby Post-Man, volume 1, number 40, page 1

   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 […]

   1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.219

   On Wednesday night two rascals burglariously entered the residence of a Mr. M'Knight, on Stanwix street, near the Point, by forcing open the back door.

   1853 November 21, “Daring Outrage”, in The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, page 3

   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 […]

   1915, “STATE v. BURNS”, in The Southwestern Reporter, volume 173, page 1070