a. [f. BURGLARY + -OUS. Cf. felonious.]

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  1.  Of or pertaining to burglary; addicted to burglary; involving the guilt of burglary.

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1769.  Blackstone, Comm., IV. 226. All these entries have been adjudged burglarious, though there was no actual breaking.

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1807.  Syd. Smith, Plymley’s Lett., iv. The larcenous and burglarious world.

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1822.  Byron, Werner, II. i. 26. This burglarious, larcenous felony.

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  2.  Burglar-like.

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1859.  Thackeray, Virgin., lxxxix. The daring and burglarious capture of two forts of which he forced the doors.

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1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., 1. A burglarious stream of fog creeping in … through the key-hole.

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  Hence Burglariously adv.

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1807.  Opie, Lect. Art, III. (1848), 311. Burglariously entered the Temple of Fame by the window.

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1883.  Law Rep., XI. Queen’s B., 588. The plaintiff’s dwelling-house … was burglariously entered.

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