Apely
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Of, relating to, or characteristic of apes; simian.
"There is now a danger, we presume, that people may do such things by the rules of Darwinism, but the author fails to inform us whether we are likely to select servants and intimate friends because they do, or because they do not, present in their faces and on their persons indications of their apely origin?"
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More examples"There is now a danger, we presume, that people may do such things by the rules of Darwinism, but the author fails to inform us whether we are likely to select servants and intimate friends because they do, or because they do not, present in their faces and on their persons indications of their apely origin?"
Etymology
From ape + -ly.