Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an antic manner; with odd postures and gesticulations; grotesquely.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Oddly; grotesquely.
Examples
“He was anticly habited; but he cannot disguise himself from me, God be praised! as I can from him.”
“Riding home from a campaign rally late one night in 1967, he chattered almost breathlessly in the back seat of the car, gesturing anticly with his stubby tattered cigar in the soft flare of headlights behind him.”
“Ha, none of that, you woolly-coated rogue, you," he cried, as he jumped aside to escape a kick that the bunch of equine mischief anticly snapped at him.”
How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories
“And yet so little was the pace to him that he fairly gamboled in playfulness as he went slashing along, until the deacon verily began to fear that the honest old chap would break through all the bounds of propriety and send his heels anticly through his treasured dashboard.”
How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories
“There were there twelve minstrels anticly disguised; with forty six or more gentlemen and ladies, many of them knights or nobles, and ladies of honor, apparelled in crimson sattin, embroidered upon with wreaths of gold, and garnished with borders of hanging pearl.”
“This day Abdalla Khan waited on the prince with a gallant equipage, himself and servants being anticly apparelled, yet soldier-like, according to their fashion.”
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