vitreously

English

Etymology

vitreous +‎ -ly

Adverb

vitreously (not comparable)

  1. In a vitreous manner
    • 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
      The cosmopolitan turned a mild glance upon the speaker, who, now occupying the chair opposite him, sat there purely and coldly radiant as a prism. It seemed as if one could almost hear him vitreously chime and ring.
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