panderly

English

Etymology

Adjective

panderly (comparative more panderly, superlative most panderly)

(archaic) Having the quality of a pander.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
  O, you panderly rascals, there’s a knot: a gin, a packe, a conspiracie against me

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for panderly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

repandly

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