adv. [f. prec. + -LY.] In a catholic manner.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 197. They … that in a true herte catholycally byleueth the same.
1829. Blackw. Mag., XXV. 153. He did catholically dread the very name of what they called reform.
1855. Motley, Dutch Rep., I. 304. To consent that his niece should live Catholically after the marriage.
1887. Times, 7 April, 3/5. The Conservatives … were more catholically minded.
So Catholicalness.
1731. Bailey, II., Catholicalness … being of a catholick spirit, universalness.
