adv. Obs. or arch. [f. CLANCULAR + -LY2.] In a clandestine manner; secretly, privately.
1618. Hales, Lett. (1673), 20 (T.). They would not do any thing clancularly without the consent and Privity of the whole Company.
1655. M. Casaubon, Enthus., i. 7. Although he speak onely of the Dionysiaca, or Bacchanalia, as they were clancularly kept at Rome.
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece, IV. i. (1706), II. 167. Such as were guilty of Self-Murder … were clancularly deposited in the Ground without the accustom’d Solemnities.
1709. Strype, Ann. Ref. (1725), I. xxxii. 365. Having been clancularly ordained at Geneva.
1849. Blackw. Mag., LXVI. 685/1. I clancularly gave my orders to the steward.
