a. [f. TORY sb. or a. + -ISH1.] Somewhat Tory; inclined to Toryism. So Toryishly adv.
1681. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 41 (1713), II. 17. The Mistress of the House being, it seems, Toryishly affected, would have two Pence the Dish for true Protestant Coffee.
1684. (Mar. 26) Let. fr. Irel., in T. Hutchinson, Hist. Mass. (1764), I. ii. 343, note. I suspect you of the Massachusets, are more whiggish, and your neighbours more toryish, to express it in the language of late in use.
1794. Parr, Lett. to Routh, 22 July, Wks. 1828, VII. 658. Manners which you would call Toryish, because they were at once correct, elegant, and dignified.
1826. New Monthly Mag., Jan. 20. He must not be too whiggish for his Tory customers, nor too toryish for his Whigs.
1852. Freeman’s Jrnl. (Dublin), 12 May, 2/4. There are two things necessary to be done by the profession in order to bring home conviction to the mind of the Tory Chancellor that he shall not make up his budget with plunder, wrung from a body whom he may erroneously think to be so Toryishly inclined that they will unresistingly submit to the spoliation.
1876. G. Meredith, Beauch. Career, xiv. I fancy he is Toryish.
