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Definition of Middlingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middlingly
Literary usage of Middlingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Voyage from Southampton to Cape Town, in the Union Company's Mail Steamer by Charles Chapman (1872)
"Then, again, if you happen to be an ordinary man, well dressed, with the little
hag strapped over your shoulder, with your lady just middlingly dressed, ..."
2. The Yoga Philosophy: Being the Text of Patanjali, with Bhoja Raja's Commentary. by Patañjali, Bhojarāja, Tookaram Tatya (1885)
"These are severally threefold from their being severally subdivided into the '
mildly impetuous,' the ' middlingly impetuous,' and the ' transcendently ..."
3. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"2. Do salud pasadera, pero no buena ; (fam.) no muy católico. — ». pl. Salvado.
middlingly [mld'-llng-llj, oda. Medianamente. ..."
4. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"middle quality or grade, middlings. moyennement, adv. moderately, middlingly.
mo/eu, m. hub, nave; (egg) yolk; (fruit) stone; core (as in molding). mû, ..."
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