mountainously

mountainously

English

Etymology

mountainous +‎ -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

Adverb

mountainously (comparative more mountainously, superlative most mountainously)

1. In a mountainous manner.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 15 p. 3:

     Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length,

     Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie,

     And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;

References

• The Poly-Olbion project