Criminally. World English Historical Dictionary

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adv. [f. CRIMINAL a. + -LY2.]

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  1.  According to criminal law.

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1560.  1st Bk. Discip. Ch. Scot., vii. (1836), 49. If any of the university be criminally persued.

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1651.  W. G., trans. Cowel’s Inst., 210. It is in his choise … whether he will prosecute the party civilly or criminally.

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1699.  Ludlow, Mem., III. 110 (R.). They thought not convenient to proceed against him criminally.

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1885.  Law Reports 14 Q. Bench Div. 202. The Attorney General … was entrusted by the constitution to sue for the King, either civilly or criminally.

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  2.  In a criminal manner; so as to constitute crime.

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a. 1729.  J. Rogers, 19 Serm., xi. (1735), 214 (J.). Our Discourse is no more confined than our Thoughts, extends to all Subjects,… and may be criminally employed on all.

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1758.  S. Hayward, Serm., xvii. 505. David … when he fell so criminally and so publickly.

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1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 537. The earl’s conduct … had been, as he afterwards thought, criminally moderate.

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1886.  Law Times, LXXXI. 178/1. The corespondent … proved that he had not been criminally intimate with the respondent.

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