adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a fraudulent manner, by fraud, with intent to defraud or deceive, dishonestly, wrongfully.

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1474.  Caxton, Chesse, 120. Dyuerce offycers accuse the good peple fraudulently.

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1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccxxxv. 330. The kyng my husbande, who is taken fraudelently.

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1631.  Gouge, God’s Arrows, II. vii. 142. What is violently or fraudulently gotten, wilbe lavishly spent: and so the famine prove to be the greater.

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1786.  Burke, W. Hastings, III. ii. § 9. The correspondence concerning which the said Hastings hath fraudulently suppressed.

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1858.  Ld. St. Leonards, Handy-bk. Prop. Law, v. 27. The statement must be made fraudulently, that is, with an intention to deceive.

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1887.  Times, 26 Aug., 8/6. Deserters and fraudulently enlisted men who have received … a free pardon.

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