filchingly

adv

Etymology: From filching + -ly.

1. By filching; thievingly.

   “In so much that at Rome Liberius, at Hierusalem Cyrillus, at Alexandria George, did filchingly and shamefully gouerne all Churches with hereticall dissembling, and so vehemently persecuted the Catholickes, that this persecution seemed to surtop all passed persecutions of former tyrants.”

   “But (Sir) according to my Judgment, you do understand both of and by yourself, that here Stealth signifieth nothing else, no more than in a thousand other places of Greek and Latin, Old and Modern Writings, but the sweet Fruits of amorous Dalliance, which Venus liketh best, when reap’d in secret, and cull’d by fervent Lovers filchingly.”