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Definition of Amphibiously
1. adv. Like an amphibious being.
Definition of Amphibiously
1. Adverb. In the manner of an amphibian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amphibiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphibiously
Literary usage of Amphibiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Serving amphibiously, by land or tea. 1. Marines. Instructional. Expositive. ART.
11. Rankt and Grada. The Members of the Stipendiary Army are distinguished ..."
2. Exercises Political and Others by Thomas Perronet Thompson (1842)
"And of the functionaries there are also that serve amphibiously ... or such as
serve amphibiously by land or sea, videlicet Marines ; to whom by reason, ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"They are people considerably advanced in rural arts, living amphibiously on a
rough coast, and drawing half their food from the sea, and half from the land. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1875)
"... and the amphibiously accomplished Dallie, assisted by one of the nondescripts
and a gardener's lad, do the work. Nan allows him all she can, ..."
5. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Thomas Moore (1830)
"... immediately below the Asiatic fort was to dive for the LAND tortoises, which
we flung in on purpose, as they amphibiously crawled along the bottom. ..."
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