cannibally

English

Etymology

cannibal +‎ -ly

Adverb

cannibally (comparative more cannibally, superlative most cannibally)

1. In the manner of a cannibal.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     An he had been cannibally given.

   • 1842, Samuel Hibbert, Polylogy's Sayings:

     The Christians who think that they eat their God, who as a human victim immolated himself to his own divinity, do not so cannibally.