adv. [f. ANGULAR + -LY2.] In an angular manner.
1. In or with angles; so as to form an angle.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., II. iii. Wks. 1616, 201 (T.). The anti-face to this, is your lawyers face, a contracted, subtile, and intricate face, full of quirkes, and turnings, a labyrinthæan face, now angularly, now circularly, every way aspected.
1661. Boyle, Unsuccessfuln. Experim., Wks. 1744, I. 217/1 (J.). Another part of the same solution … afforded us an ice angularly figured.
1703. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 162. A piece of Timber growing angularly, or crooked.
1794. Sullivan, View Nat., I. 467. A crystaline substance … angularly arranged.
1880. Günther, Fishes, 54. Angularly bent, so as to consist of a vertical and horizontal limb.
2. At (acute) angles, obliquely, diagonally, from corner to corner. Also fig.
1471. Caxton, Chesse, 150. Goyng cornerly or angularly sygnefyeth cautele or subtilytye.
1650. J. Weekes, Truth’s Confl., Pref. A ij b. Look not in an oblique manner or angularly upon the persons.
1808. J. Webster, Nat. Phil., 18. If the plates be placed angularly, or touch each other at one of the ends.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, i. 2. A blanket, stretched angularly from the wall to the chimney.
3. Of personal appearance: see ANGULAR 3.
1846. Poe, Wks. (1864), III. 35. He is about five feet seven inches high … angularly proportioned.
1849. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xxxv. (C. D. ed.), 165. Gashford … was angularly made.
