adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  By the instrumentality of angels. rare.

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1635.  Wither, Lord’s Prayer (1665), 14. Revelations that seem to be … Angelically inspired.

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  2.  After the manner of, or like, an angel.

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1740.  Gray, Lett., in Poems (1775), 86. La Diamantina … played on the violin divinely, and sung angelically.

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1814.  Cary, Dante, 5. With gentle voice and soft Angelically tun’d.

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1824–5.  Wiffen, Tasso’s Jerus. Deliv., IX. lxxxi. His favourite page, angelically fair.

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