Christly

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English

Etymology

From Christ +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

Adjective

Christly (comparative more Christly, superlative most Christly)

  1. Christlike
    • 1858, Horace Bushnell, Sermons for the New Life:
      The design was, it would seem, to prepare a Christly past, to show whole ages of faith populated with men who were able, coming after their Master and bearing his cross, to suffer with him […]

Derived terms

Adverb

Christly (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Extremely; very.
    • 1986, The Malahat Review, numbers 73-76, page 104:
      It is Christly hot. She wipes her forehead with the back of her hand.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Christly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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