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comparative more cannibally · superlative most cannibally
- 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]1 more example
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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