mountainously
English
editEtymology
editFrom mountainous + -ly. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
Adverb
editmountainously (comparative more mountainously, superlative most mountainously)
- In a mountainous manner.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 15 p. 3:
- Besides her fruitfull earth, her mightie breadth and length,
Doth Chiltern fitly match: which mountainously hie,
And beeing very long, so likewise shee doth lie;