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Definition of Headily
1. adv. In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.
Definition of Headily
1. Adverb. In a heady manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headily
1. in a heady manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headily
Literary usage of Headily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1914)
"... His scarlet tunic burns; And livelier than the green sap's mantling glee The
spring fire tingles through him headily As quivering he turns And stammers ..."
2. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... His scarlet tunic burns; And livelier than the green sap's mantling glee The
spring fire tingles through him headily As quivering he turns And stammers ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"... that the directions in which their advance is checked only by want of knowledge
of physiological conditions иге headily increasing in number. ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... if this People shall headily run on after the counsels I their Prelates and
Clergy and other Leaders, I hope to be 1 from the misery and desolation, ..."
5. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 by Albert Cook Myers (1912)
"... that in whomsoever a desire is to be concerned in this intended plantation,
such would weigh the thing before the Lord, and not headily or rashly ..."
6. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1901)
"... statutes and laudable ordinances of the realm with the wholesome advice of
the lords and peers of the realm, but should headily and wantonly by his own ..."
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