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Etymology

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disaster +‎ -ly

Adverb

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disasterly (comparative more disasterly, superlative most disasterly)

  1. (obsolete) disastrously
    • 1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles[1], published 1613:
      Thy noble breast disasterly possesse

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disasterly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)