adv. [f. SUPERCILIOUS + -LY2.] In a supercilious manner; with haughty contempt; disdainfully; † dictatorially, dogmatically, censoriously.
a. 1529. Skelton, Replyc., Wks. 1843, I. 203. Whan they haue ones superciliusly caught A lytell ragge of rethorike.
1609. B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., V. iii. Set your faces, and looke superciliously, while I present you.
1627. Donne, Serm., Rev. iv. 8 (1640), 434. Some binde themselves exactly, rigidly, superciliously, yea superstitiously to the number of foure.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., II. § 43. The Earl … who was a punctual man in point of Honour, received this Address superciliously enough.
1697. Bentley, Phal. (1699), 198. He talks most superciliously, and with the greatest assurance.
1709. Swift, Vindic. Bickerstaff, Wks. 1755, II. I. 169. If men of publick spirit must be superciliously treated for their ingenious attempts, how will true useful knowledge be ever advanced?
1799. Han. More, Fem. Educ. (ed. 4), Introd. p. xviii. Let it not be suspected … that she superciliously erects herself into the impeccable censor of her sex and of the world.
1862. Lytton, Str. Story, i. The proprietors [of the shops] were decorously pompous,—the shopmen superciliously polite.
1865. Miss Braddon, Only a Clod, xl. Harcourt smiled superciliously.
