filchingly

Adverb

filchingly (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) By filching; thievingly.
   • In so much that at Rome Liberius, at Hierusalem Cyrillus, at Alexandria George, did filchingly and shamefully gouerne all Churches with hereticall dissembling, and so vehemently persecuted the Catholickes, that this persecution seemed to surtop all passed persecutions of former tyrants.1619, John Favour, Antiquitie Triumphing Over Noveltie […], page 389
   • But (Sir) according to my Judgment, you do understand both of and by yourself, that here Stealth signifieth nothing else, no more than in a thousand other places of Greek and Latin, Old and Modern Writings, but the sweet Fruits of amorous Dalliance, which Venus liketh best, when reap’d in secret...1737 [1546], François Rabelais, “[The Third Book of Pantagruel]”, in John Ozell, transl., The Works of Francis Rabelais, M.D., volume 3, page 114