runningly

English

Etymology

From Middle English runningly, renningli, equivalent to running +‎ -ly.

Adverb

runningly (comparative more runningly, superlative most runningly)

1. In a running manner; so as to run.
   • 1924, Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Everyday Classics, Third and Fourth Readers: Teachers' Manual:

     Unless it is read runningly, the metrical movement will not be felt. For the meaning, it is enough to have the class simply get the main idea in each stanza. Then the poem may be memorized.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “runningly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)