adv. [f. prec. + -LY1.] In athletic manner; in the direction of athletics.

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1750.  Chatham, in Lady Chatterton, Mem. Gambier (1861), I. iii. 40. Don’t … fancy you can do all the Admirabilis and I do so athletically.

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1883.  Times, 23 Jan., 6/2. Upper Boys [of Eton] … athletically inclined.

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