Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb As a burglar; in order to burgle.

Etymologies

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From burglarious +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • But there is no trouble in 'burglariously' entering an Izumo dwelling unless there happen to be good watchdogs on the premises.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Jeeves suggests that a window is broken burglariously...

    February 17th, 2009 curufea 2009

  • Why do men steal? why break burglariously into houses? why hale men and women captive and make slaves of them?

    Symposium 2007

  • I had no sooner disposed of this criminal than there started up another of the same period, whose profession was originally house-breaking; in the pursuit of which art he had had his right ear chopped off one night, as he was burglariously getting in at a window, by

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • Westlaw also manages to beat the OED on this one; “burglariously” is attested by the OED only as far back as 1807, but a quickie Westlaw search locates a 1792 North Carolina case reporting an indictment “for feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering into the dwelling house of one Rice.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Burglariously: 2007

  • I had no sooner disposed of this criminal than there started up another of the same period, whose profession was originally house-breaking; in the pursuit of which art he had had his right ear chopped off one night, as he was burglariously getting in at a window, by

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • He decided, painfully, to go back to breakfast, and tell them he had missed his train, and entered in the night burglariously so as not to disturb them.

    Swan Song 2004

  • Our chicken coops were made snake-proof, but a more than ordinarily, crafty individual burglariously broke into one, and the hen and chickens sounded the alarm.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • At the following sessions at the Old Bailey, he was indicted for burglariously breaking open the house of Sarah Pickard, and feloniously taking thence thirty-six gold rings and stone rings, three silver watches, several pieces of silver plate, and divers other goods of considerable value.

    Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

  • But being dubious whether Joshua Cornwall, as a servant within the house of Mr. Fenwick, could be properly convicted of burglariously breaking into his said master's house, they found their verdict as to him special; which the judges having considered, they were unanimously of opinion that the crime was in its nature a burglary.

    Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

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