Meanings
adverbthreatfully (comparative more threatfully, superlative most threatfully)
comparative more threatfully · superlative most threatfully
- In a threatful manner; threateningly.
But, yet vve farther paſſe, our ſlender Barke / Muſt heere ſtrike top-ſailes to a Princely Arke / VVhich keepes theſe Straights: He hailes vs threatfully, / Star-boord our helme; Come vnderneath his Lee.
1605, W. Salustius, Lord of Bartas [i.e., Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “[The Second Weeke: or Childhood of the World. […]] The Furies. The Third Booke, of the First Day, of the Second Weeke.”, in Iosuah Syluester, transl., Bartas His Deuine Weekes & Workes […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes […], →OCLC, page 328
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