usurpingly
English
Etymology
usurping + -ly
Adverb
usurpingly (not comparable)
- So as to usurp.
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane” in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- The fever’d diadem on my brow
I claim’d and won usurpingly ——
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caesar — this to me?
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane” in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for usurpingly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- pursuingly