adv. [UN-1 11.]
1. In an unlawlul manner; illegally.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., xvi. 53. That he wolde … Me lede to my lyves ende, unlahfulliche in lyhte.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. IV. 290. As þe sauter sheweþ by suche as ȝeuen mede, Þat vnlawfulliche lyuen, hauen large honden.
1414. Rolls of Parlt., IV. 57/1. The processe of myn outelawery was unlawfully made.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 134. Injure or violence unlauchfully usurpit.
1549. Cheke, Hurt Sedit. (1569), D iij b. If their goodes … shall vnlawfully and vnorderly be spoyled.
1653. Urquhart’s Logopandecteision, H iij b. Unlawfully-acquired goods.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Mark i. 44. The unlawfully called and bad priests.
1710. Act 9 Anne c. 16. If any Person … shall unlawfully attempt to kill, or shall unlawfully assault … one of the most Honourable Privy Council.
1824. Mackintosh, Sp. Ho. Comm., 1 June, Wks. 1846, III. 401. Whether a British subject has been lawfully or unlawfully condemned to death.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, xxv. The Mahometan authorities … were conscious of having acted unlawfully.
2. Illegitimately.
1552. Elyot, Illegitimi, vnlaufully begotten, bastardes.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 132. Athir Bastardis, or vnlawfollie gottin and borne.
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., III. i. 196. Rather … then my sonne should be vnlawfullie borne.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 203. What Part I, being unlawfully born, may claim of the Man’s Affection who begot me.
1755. Johnson, Illegitimate, unlawfully begotten; not begotten in wedlock.
