Meanings
comparative more feloniously · superlative most feloniously
- In a felonious manner; in a manner that constitutes a felony.
Thomas Hacket and Thomas Tweedy were both indicted, the one for stealing two cheeses, the other for feloniously receiving one of the two cheeses.
1831 July 29, The Australian, Sydney, page 3, column 51 more example
The information charges that the said Flem Parker, on or about the 20th day of November, 1890, and before the filing of this information, at the county and state aforesaid, did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously enter a certain barn […]
1892, The Pacific Reporter, volume 27, page 538
Origin
- Middle Englishfeloniously
- Englishfeloniously
From Middle English feloniously; equivalent to felonious + -ly.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan fellonament
- fellonamentin a felonious manner
German verbrecherisch, in verbrecherischer Weise
- verbrecherischin a felonious manner
- in verbrecherischer Weisein a felonious manner
- verbrecherhaftin a felonious manner
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