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Webster 1913 Edition
Fiendly
Fiend′ly
,Adj.
[AS.
feóndlic
.] Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2025
fiendly
fiendly
English
Adjective
fiendly (comparative more fiendly, superlative most fiendly)
- (obsolete) Hostile.
- (now rare) Like a fiend; devilish.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:
- Soo whanne sir Laūcelot came thydder / he sawe wryten vpon the tombe letters of gold that said thus / Here shalle come a lybard of kynges blood / and he shalle slee this serpent / […] / Soo thenne sir launcelot lyfte vp the tombe / and there came out an horryble & a fyendly dragon spyttynge fyre oute of his mouthe
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI: