adv. [f. SPANISH a. + -LY2.] Towards Spain or Spanish policy; like Spanish; in a characteristically Spanish manner.
a. 1641. Finett, For. Embass. (1656), 65. He desired that (if the place were so equall, as some Spanishly inclined pretended) he might have the first choyce.
1717. De Foe, Mem. Ch. Scot., II. 128. To excommunicate the Popish and Spanishly affected Nobility, so they then called them.
1882. Stevenson, Merry Men, i. in Cornh. Mag., XLV. 679. The name … of the ship … sounded, in my ears, Spanishly. The Espirito Santo they called it.
1907. Westm. Gaz., 3 June, 2/1. Its cathedral rising solemnly, Spanishly, greyly above all else.
