adv. [f. spelling, pres. pple. of SPELL v.2] By dint of spelling; letter by letter.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xix. § 7. 171. If then we can but arriue to decypher the first characters of the hidden Alphabet … and can but spellingly reade the first syllabes of it [etc.].
1847. Thackeray, Lords & Liv., iii. Jeames read the … paper…; not spellingly and with hesitation.
